Hey mlem folx! I’m using mlem on iOS.

I’m noticing that comment chains don’t always show up in the app. This happens one of two ways, from what I can tell:

  1. the top level comment appears as normal, and there is an icon for however many replies, but none of them appear unless I share and open it with a browser; or,
  2. I become eventually unable to see comments in comment chains, even if it’s a thread I am participating in.

I don’t know if this is a known thing or not, I admit I didn’t do too much looking through the history here. I hope it’s not a repost.

  • SjmarfEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Yep, this is a known issue. When a comment chain gets too long, Lemmy doesn’t send all of the comments in the initial API response. When this happens, the web UI displays a “show n more replies” button that can be tapped to load the remaining comments:

    We just haven’t got around to adding this button to Mlem yet, but it’s something we will certainly look into in future. We’re tracking the issue here.

    Sorry I didn’t see your comment until now; your post didn’t federate to lemmy.ml properly for some reason so I only just saw it whilst using my alt account.