The screenshot shows comments somehow being nested multiple levels without an intermediate parent. That’s a bug, right? Nesting should only be increasing by one level at a time.

I’ve observed this happening a ton across many different threads. There’s also some weird cases where the top level comment is just a link to “show parent” and… It’s not actually top level??

  • Spimble@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    My understanding is it has to do with deleted comments not having a placeholder, so the comments you do see look like they’re nested strangely

      • r2vq@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        This comment is in reply to a comment I deleted in order to test this theory.

        This comments parent is this comment. And its content is:

        This is a comment I plan on replying to and deleting to test this theory

        This comment’s parent’s parent is this comment. And its content is:

        My understanding is it has to do with deleted comments not having a placeholder, so the comments you do see look like they’re nested strangely