The screenshot shows comments somehow being nested multiple levels without an intermediate parent. That’s a bug, right? Nesting should only be increasing by one level at a time.
I’ve observed this happening a ton across many different threads. There’s also some weird cases where the top level comment is just a link to “show parent” and… It’s not actually top level??
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It’s bugged. Change your default comment sort to ‘New’, fixed it for me.
Hot works for me, top doesn’t.
I believe Top is completely broken, Hot is sometimes broken. New works.
My understanding is it has to do with deleted comments not having a placeholder, so the comments you do see look like they’re nested strangely
I used to see “comment deleted by user” or something like that, has that gone away?
Also the issue I’ve noticed pretty often recently is that there are apparently replies to a comment, but I click to view them and it disappears. That happened with your comment, did you have any replies before mine?
It said two but expanding them said no comments loaded
I assume some of the bugs will be fixed in the coming months
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This comment is in reply to a comment I deleted in order to test this theory.
This comment’s parent is this comment. And its content is:
This is a comment I plan on replying to and deleting to test this theory
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My understanding is it has to do with deleted comments not having a placeholder, so the comments you do see look like they’re nested strangely
I think you are right. This reproduced the issue for me.
sort by top for comments is bugged. sort by hot and you’re good.
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sort by top for comments is bugged. sort by top and you’re good.
Top is bugged so sort by top?
I noticed that too. Changing comment sort didn’t seem to affect it, at least not that I noticed. It seems that it’s listing the newer child replies as technically newer than some of the parents, and sorting by new affected the whole tree, not just top level comments.
