Comment missing: where could it be? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by brbposting@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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As seen in the linked thread, a two-week old comment is visible via the direct link but is no longer listed under the post itself.

(I believe there’s also a deleted reply to the comment, but I expect that behavior will be addressed via upgrade.)

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[-] AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The only comment I deleted was the one hanging off of https://sh.itjust.works/comment/6657926 (which was basically me pointing out the same thing I later commented elsewhere about, the comment not showing up). Which makes sense, because it doesn’t show up.

If I had deleted https://sh.itjust.works/comment/6657926 itself, you should not be able to see it. But you can, and anyone can. What they can’t do is see it from the thread discussion itself, https://sh.itjust.works/post/11079972 .

And no, the comment I actually did delete does not show in my history … because I deleted it.

It may simply be a data inconsistency issue from one of the times sh.itjust.works went kaput, although it's weird that a comment that previously showed up under a thread, got upvoted on it, and is still under said thread stops showing up as part of it to readers of the thread. It reminds me of shadowbans.

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's a screenshot of my view of the post to illustrate what I was trying to describe. The user you were replying to deleted their comment, which results in the whole comment tree becoming hidden.

I agree there's some other weird stuff going on, too. This morning I received a user report that was days old. I'll let TheDude know.

[-] AMillionNames@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Ah, that makes sense, thanks for your time and the investigative work. I guess I'm used to the way reddit handles it, which is that you can still open up branches where some of the parent comments have been deleted, and I didn't remember I had replied to a comment under.