What's going on with the wacky nesting of comments? - eviltoast

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??

    • r2vq@lemmy.caEnglish
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      1 year ago

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

      This comment’s 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