At this time this post supposedly has 13 comments but I only see six. I’m curious as to what’s going on. Is it folks posting from instances that this instance is not federated to? Or is it because those users do not have English (or Undetermined) selected among the Settings > Languages options? Or is it a combo of both and/or some other stuff?

Are there any recommended user settings for engaging with this instance and are they posted anywhere?

  • Zagorath
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    1 year ago

    I’ve noticed this too, on other instances. When I discussed it with the admin of another instance, they looked into the database and found that the displayed number was just wrong, and that all the comments actually displaying were correct.

  • Gloomy Bagel 🥯
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    1 year ago

    better than what I experienced last week which was literally no comments displaying on any thread, whether I was logged in or not

    figured it was a bug, came back days later and still nothing.

    … realised I had forgotten I turned on the “Block comments where they aren’t the primary focus” option on in 1Blocker which synced across my devices.

    • maniacalmanicmaniaOP
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      1 year ago

      I’m not familiar with Apple products of any kind. I’m curious, what does that option do and how does it help, or how is it supposed to help?

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        1 year ago

        I have 1Blocker. I’ve never turned that setting on but always assumed it would suppress comments sections from web pages that offer comments elbow articles.

        https://1blocker.com/

      • Gloomy Bagel 🥯
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        1 year ago

        just hides comments on most sites/articles

        so news articles, youtube, fediverse apparently lol

        it was actually pretty nice to go to youtube and only see the video and the related videos column

  • Yeah_na_yeah
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    1 year ago

    If i click the little rainbow fediverse logo on that post, it should take me to the original instance i think? Only getting a cloudfare connection error though.