so I was reading this thread, and I noticed I could read the comment by @gun@lemmy.ml , 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 @jonuno@lemmy.ml 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.

    • soronixaOP
      4•3 years ago

      update: I checked it with Librewolf and firefox, and both display comments as deleted, so they’re ok. but I unistalled Lemmur and it still shows their text. but one thing that I noticed, when I sort the thread I linked in my comment by old, your comment appears to be oldest, while there are clearly some comments older. it’s so weird :|

      edit: sorry, the old sorting works fine, for some reason I thought it should show the oldest comment at the bottem of the page, sorry I’m stupid xD

      but oh wait, in browser the comment by @Echedenyan@lemmy.ml is at the bottom when sorted by old, and in lemmur yours is at them bottom, that’s why I thought Lemmur’s sorting is broken. I’m confused T_T

      • dandelion
        2•3 years ago

        Crazy idea : Get some people to set up a bounty for this Lemmur bug and then find the fix yourself ;) But seriously, well spotted, good job!

        • soronixaOP
          3•3 years ago

          lol, that’s a great idea, but I have no programming experience. thanks, yeah, it’s an odd bug.

    • soronixaOP
      2•3 years ago

      deleted the cache and app data completely, and still they are there.

      can you test this thread too? thanks.

      I’ll delete and reinstall the app to see what happens.

      • dandelion
        3•3 years ago

        can you test this thread too? thanks.

        Yes, three deleted comments no matter what sorting options I clicked on. Perhaps cross post to the Lemmur /c/ ?