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??

  • Spimble@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    1 year ago

    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

      • r2vq@lemmy.caEnglish
        12·
        1 year ago

        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

        This comment’s parent’s parent is this comment. And its content is:

        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

    • soupspoon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      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?

      • Spimble@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It said two but expanding them said no comments loaded

        I assume some of the bugs will be fixed in the coming months