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
    8•3 years ago

    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?

      • soronixaOP
        3•3 years ago

        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?

        • Helix
          4•3 years ago

          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.

          • @Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
            3•3 years ago

            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.

            • @Echedenyan@lemmy.ml
              2•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.

            • Helix
              2•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.

  • @jonuno@lemmy.ml
    3•3 years ago

    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.

    • soronixaOP
      2•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.

    • 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/ ?