New-ish Lemmy user here (a couple weeks), I’ve noticed some comments under posts are ‘lighter’ than other comments. What causes this?

    • dabster291OP
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      1 year ago

      I just entered the thread, so in that case all the comments should be highlighted.

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    1 year ago

    So they’re supposed to mark the new comments that we’re created less the 10 mins ago. I’m not sure why you’re seeing the other comment highlighted when it’s a few hours old, did you follow a link to that specific comment? If so, that comment will also be highlighted

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        1 year ago

        Update: the limit seems to be 4 hours for comments, not 10 minutes.

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            1 year ago

            I didn’t, I just noticed that 3 hour-old comments were highlighted, while 4 hour-old comments weren’t (but I just saw a highlighted 4 hour-old comment and an unhighlighted 3 hour-old comment, so it might be something else).