Cannot expand comments

[lucasyvas]

Describe the bug

Cannot expand additional comments hidden by a caret

To Reproduce

1. Find any post with comments collapsed behind a caret
2. Try to expand (ex. 1 more reply)
3. A loading icon will display briefly and nothing happens

Expected behavior

The comment tree should load and expand

Screenshots

Smartphone:

• Device: iPhone 15
• OS: iOS 17.4.1

[aeharding]

Did you block https://lemmy.ca/u/recursive_recursion@programming.dev? That might be why. Nothing that really can be done about that, other that get a fix in Lemmy so that reply count reflects your blocks.

[lucasyvas]

Did you block https://lemmy.ca/u/recursive_recursion@programming.dev? That might be why. Nothing that really can be done about that, other that get a fix in Lemmy so that reply count reflects your blocks.

I've never blocked anyone. It happens on all threads.

[aeharding]

I'm not sure why you're seeing that then, I cannot reproduce.

[lucasyvas]

Do you have any other debugging ideas? It's always been like this for me and I only just finally found it annoying enough to report. I could probably read the code at some point - does it perform an additional network request?

[aeharding]

Does it also happen in Lemmy UI when you're logged in there with same account?

[lucasyvas]

Actually, that was a good idea. It does not work there either, yet the request does complete in the network panel. Do I have some kind of cosmetic filter on that instance I'm not aware of?

[lucasyvas]

The link of the parent itself will show the nested comments fine. Found another one here:

https://lemm.ee/comment/11439660

Also attached a screenshot of it in the main comment thread where I click more. And I'll attach the response JSON when clicking that more button.

GET https://lemm.ee/api/v3/comment/list?parent_id=11443652&max_depth=8&limit=999&type_=All

Response

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[aeharding]

That request works fine for me unauthenticated. Are you sure there isn't some user or instance block setup on your account, or something like that?

[lucasyvas]

It works for me unauthenticated too (auto-expanded even!), but logged in, it's collapsed and doesn't expand. Weird. I've never posted on that community so a block seems impossible. It affects many other communities as well. Maybe instance-related problem?

This doesn't seem to be an issue with Voyager at least, so I can close this. I tried messing with a lot of settings but it didn't seem to help. The only thing I've noticed is that my subscription to that community is infinitely pending. My language is Undetermined - maybe I can try messing with that.

[lucasyvas]

It's because English wasn't selected as a language as well as Undetermined. It's now auto-expanded - weird as hell. Hopefully it helps the next person.