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[Bug] Some deleted comments remain on Lemmy's servers? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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so I was reading this thread, and I noticed I could read the comment by @[email protected] , while I knew they had deleted the comment. on the other hand, the comment by @Travis Skaalgrad was displayed as deleted, which I knew was incorrect. so I checked a few more times, and I realized when you sort the comments by old or new, you can see it, but when you sort by top, hot or chat, you can't.

well, I thought it might be a bug in federation, but then when I was on the front page, in a thread of lemmy.ml I saw two deleted comments and the user had stated that they have deleted them, but when I sorted by old, I could read one of them.

so I thought maybe recently deleted comments are stored for moderation purposes, but then I found this old thread, and I could see the comment deleted by @[email protected] when I sorted by old.

I think there are two bugs, one that makes some deleted comments remain on the servers, and another one that displays some of them when sorted by old or new, while displaying some comments that are not deleted as deleted.

I was using Lemmy's android client Lemmur, which I had downloaded from F-Droid. post a comment if you can reproduce the bug.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 years ago (1 children)

forgot to mention, I would have opened an issue in github if I had an account, but I don't, if anyone could reproduce the bug, can you please open the issue?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Why not make an account?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

good question, I'll probably have to create an account if I want to get into coding, but I have heard of an alternative, codeberg, which I think is FOSS, so maybe that's a better choice? I mean isn't it weird that all libre programs are usually hosted on github?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 years ago (1 children)

You can have both. You don't need to be able to code to contribute to free software :)

I for one mostly report bugs and request features. Sometimes I even write small patches but I don't have most of my 'real' coding projects up on github either.

I host code.tilde.fun myself, which is just a Gitea instance. Codeberg and gitlab are good hosters too. Just think about how git is meant to be decentralised! You can have the same repository on dozens of servers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

The reason why I have a GitHub account is that I gof weird seeing stupid things being done in some development.

However, I don't accept it because it is nonFree software.

I feel myself forced to do it because most development now, or have a Discord "server" or simply don't have any alternative communication channel.

Not even E-Mail in most cases.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

BTW, I like development mailing lists and forums.

For me, any IM service is shit used in development. You can quickly lose the topic with the messages in a room, etc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago

yeah, Github sucks and I also don't understand why everyone in the FOSS community is using it, especially after the EEE company Microsoft bought it.

Host git yourself. It's easy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 years ago (1 children)

Lemmur sure has some issues with deleted comments, I delete my comments often after having posted them for a while (personal choice) and it is buggy, when mass deleting them I would scroll up to see they were all still active.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

yeah, apparently it's also a problem with the way lemmy handles deleting comments.

dessalines and nutomic explained it a bit here: https://lemmy.ml/post/73476

edit: I'm not sure, but I think editing and replacing your comments with [deleted] might be better right now, as long as comment deletion becomes more functional.