Is this accurate? I just deleted my comment and none of the child comments were visible anymore

  • Sigmatics@lemmy.caOP
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    1 year ago

    I mean there’s no way this is intended behavior. Others are confirming as well. You can just delete others’ comments along with yours (or at least their appearance in the thread)

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      1 year ago

      I’ll say this: a lot of discussion seems to take place on Matrix chat that doesn’t make it into GitHub code comments as to why specific changes are made.

      It used to be you could see the actual content of deleted comments and it was at the discretion of the client to show or not show them. The newcomers from Reddit (June) seemed to not like that people could read content of deleted comments, so I think changes were made for that reason.

      With federation, it really isn’t reasonable to expect content copies to all be deleted. So it’s a complex issue.