Why do posts usually indicate a higher number of comments than you can see?

Is it an UI-bug, or people from defederated instances commenting? Something else?

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TeaHands@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 3y (3 replies)

I know there's a Lemmy bug where people editing their comment (not sure if it's every time, but often enough) makes the counter go up. So a thread with just one comment that was edited after posting will show as having two comments, if you see what I mean.

It's a bit annoying, not sure how high it is on the bugfix priority list though.

notintheface@feddit.nu · 4 pts · 3y

I see, was just a little curious. Would be a shame to miss comments, but this doesn't sound so bad though.

baronvonj@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y (1 reply)

That makes sense. I noticed it doesn't show created vs edited time stamps. I had originally thought it was an issue with post/comment languages and user profile language filter settings.

TeaHands@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

On the website if you hover ago the "X minutes ago" text on a post or comment you do actually get both timestamps, so they're being saved somewhere and the backend should know it was an edit rather than a new post. But who knows how these things work. Certainly not me 🤷‍♀️

Spacebar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y

Editing bug. Before this comment, it says 3 comments but there are only 2.

The issue is inconsistent.

scutiger@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 3y

It could be defederated instances. They may be able to interact with the content, but if your instance has defederated them, you will not see it.

teft@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

Perhaps you have bots turned off in your profile and the hidden comments are bot comments?

Anders429@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

I never noticed before, but this post says it has 9 comments and I only see 8.