Some comments not showing up? why?

What the title says. The higher the number of comments under a post, the more likely there will be an error. I see a post, it says "X number of comments", but when I go to the comments and count them, I notice is X -10 approx. Often more than that. Is there a reason for this comment count discrepancy?

EDIT: Turns out is the same using a browser, so apologies for presuming it was an app related issue. If the mods think this post needs to go- please go ahead and delete

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mrmanager@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 3y

Now that you mention it, yes.

I went into some random posts and the comment count is higher than the actual existing comments.

luthis@lemmy.nz · 2 pts · 3y

Also experienced this.

The oobabooga community on lemmy.world doesn't show all the comments while I'm using my lemmy.nz account

Vestern@programming.dev · 2 pts · 3y (4 replies)

Could this be because of federation/defederation? The post is in another instance than you and the comment is from an instance your instance has defederated from?

Mothra@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 3y (2 replies)

Update: i just did so. Jerboa says 28 comments for one post, but shows 18. From browser, Lemmy says and shows 18. So it doesn't look like a federation thing, especially since I wasn't logged in when using the browser.

Vestern@programming.dev · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Seems like a bug report to Jerboa might be in order 😄

Mothra@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 3y

Actually it might not be a Jerboa thing! It's the same on browser. I jumped the gun thinking it was the app

Mothra@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 3y

I considered that? Maybe I can check what I see from browser.

Another option I thought, perhaps edits get counted as new comments?

MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3y (2 replies)

For me this was because of my language settings.

I only had English selected, so I was missing "undetermined" comments. Vice versa if you have it on undetermined.

Ctrl+click languages in settings to select multiple.

Mothra@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 3y (1 reply)

Alright! Jerboa doesn't display language options on my profile, though, I am two versions behind so maybe upon updating I see them?

I selected all the languages on the list on browser and I don't see a change, neither on jerboa or on browser. You are talking about the language options in the profile section, is that right? Or are there more settings elsewhere?

MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 3y

The ones in user settings. The big list of languages.