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

  • mrmanager@lemmy.today
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    1 year ago

    Now that you mention it, yes.

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

  • Vestern@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    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?

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

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

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

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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?