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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How does this have negative three comments??

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Looks like a bug! For me, from lemmy.world's web interface, it is -1 as of this posting.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As the saying goes, there are two fundamentally difficult things about programming:

  1. cache coherence
  2. coming up with good names for things
  3. off-by-one errors

Negative comment counts are likely caused by the latter.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's something glitchy that happens when people delete comments. I know Voyager recently pushed a fix, I'm not sure about Liftoff (If I'm recognizing the UI in your screenshot correctly).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

If a user deletes a comment it subtracts from the count, seems to go to negative numbers sometimes, maybe when it's removed it subtracts two on certain circumstances