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Weird comment reordering

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Diego Moya (talkcontribs)

I'm testing the new prototype and I'm unable to make sense of how comments are reordered when several thread levels are involved. I don't know if this is a bug or the expected behavior, given that the post is animated and mover to different place after I press "Reply" instead of standing there where I wrote it.

Say we have this existing conversation:

  • Post by user A
    • Post by user B
      • Post by user C

Now if I post a reply to the first post by user A, this is the result:

  • Post by user A
      • Post by user B
    • My reply to user A
        • Post by user C

This makes it seem like user C was replying directly to me! Also all connection between user B and C is lost. The only hint that something weird happened (apart from the conversation not making any sense) is because "My reply to user A" has a more recent timestamp than "Post by user C".

What I expected to happen is this:

  • Post by user A
    • Post by user B
      • Post by user C
    • My reply to user A

This is how conversations with different depth levels are handled nowadays. It's a common idiom at places like Slashdot and Reddit. I hope this behavior is a bug? If not, can someone please explain it to me?

Jorm (WMF) (talkcontribs)

I think the behavior you're seeing is a bug and an artifact of the fact that the content is loaded from a JSON file and has no real structure.

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