For some reason, I can’t see most of the discussion comments of posts but only a fraction - maybe 10% or less. What might be the reason? adblocks?

  • @RandAlThor@lemmy.caOP
    0•4 months ago

    SOLVED: My language selection was on “undetermined”. This excluded all the posts and users who had selected “english”. I was playing around with the settings and DELETED ALL language preferences. That allowed all the posts and comments to appear again.

  • @InquisitiveApathy@lemm.eeEnglish
    0•4 months ago

    Go to your settings and make sure your language preferences include “undetermined” as well as your preferred languages. Lemmy only shows comments that match your preferences.

      • @InquisitiveApathy@lemm.eeEnglish
        0•4 months ago

        You can Ctrl+select multiple languages. Do you also have Undetermined+English+whatever else is relevant set?

        In my experience the federation issues others are referring to don’t report missing comments because they aren’t technically there on anything but the home instance so I’m inclined to believe it’s something different.

  • Max-P
    0•4 months ago

    Can you share examples?

    It’s much easier to pinpoint when you can see it for yourself, and look for patterns like is it missing a particular instance’s comments, or is it all from instances running a newer/older version of Lemmy.

    • @RandAlThor@lemmy.caOP
      0•4 months ago

      So I don’t seem to have any issues with posts made on lemmy.ca, my local instance. It’s elsewhere, like Lemmy.world where I can’t see majority of comments. For instance, this post has 40 comments but I only see 5.

      • OtterEnglish
        0•4 months ago

        What app/website are you using?

        What you can also try is making accounts on those instances to see what is being filtered. You might notice a pattern hopefully.

        Even accessing the community directly on the instance might work

        I’m on lemmy.ca and I think I see 40+ comments on that post (counting quickly while scrolling)

        • @RandAlThor@lemmy.caOP
          0•4 months ago

          No way really? That’s weird! I can’t see 90% of the comments on almost any other instances, like .world and .ml.

      • Max-P
        0•4 months ago

        That’s interesting given the community is hosted on lemmy.world, it should be the one with the authoritative view. And I see plenty of lemmy.world comments on lemmy.ca on that post.

        • Max-P
          0•4 months ago

          It… Seems fine to me so that might be a user setting. Do you see the same problem when logged out?

          • Dessalines
            0•4 months ago

            Since both sites have the same comment count, I’m fairly sure it’s either a language setting (not having undetermined selected), or due to user blocks.

  • @Microw@lemm.ee
    0•4 months ago

    Since the last major lemmy update there is a federation issue that could be the reason for your problems. Some servers/instances have fixed that problem, some still run on the version that has problems.

    • @RandAlThor@lemmy.caOP
      0•4 months ago

      It’s been that way for me ever since I came on Lemmy. I figured bugs or something so I have waited for months but just thought I’d ask.

      • 乇ㄥ 乃卂尺ㄒㄖEnglish
        0•4 months ago

        Do you have the setting to hide bot accounts turned on? When I had that on I noticed a lot of missing comments.

      • @hendrik@lemmy.ml
        0•4 months ago

        If it’s since then you might be affected by something else, too. But there definitely is the federation bug since version 0.19.0 (early December). So no matter what you do, until the developers fix this, you currently won’t be able to see all the posts/comments.