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[Solved] Does this link show no comments for others in Thunder? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I figured it out. I have the community blocked. Lemmy is dumb sometimes. Why it will happily show me the post via a direct link, but not any of the comments is beyond me! Not even that comment I specifically requested. Makes no sense. It should show both the post and comments, or neither, and not this in-between, confusing state.

I wish I could say this was the first time this exact issue has happened to me.

Original post:

I'm using 0.7.0-1, and I clicked a post that had this link and Thunder said there were no comments, yet the website itself shows several.

The link is to a specific comment.

Incidentally, after submitting this post, I tapped the eyeball to view it and nothing happened.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That'd be great! I'd be surprised if they API doesn't give a reason for not returning any comments. (Well, maybe not that surprised.)

If a reason is given, it should be shown. It would have saved me from the embarassment of making this post. 😁

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Done! This should land in the next nightly build

https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/1808

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Amazing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That's excellent! That'll end so much confusion. Thanks for coding this!

Now, I'm just going to dream out loud here:

It'd be awesome if Thunder would let you temporarily load a whole post in anonymous mode. So, you wouldn't be able to comment or vote or anything, but you'd be able to see comments in cases like this.

It wouldn't even necessarily need to limited to times where Thunder has detected you've blocked the community. It could just always be available as an action in the three-dot menu, although I can't really imagine why someone would want it otherwise. Then your toast could add, "Consider loading the post anonymously." Or something.

Alternatively, your message could be static and not a toast, and say the same thing along with "tap here to load the post anonymously."

Maybe some day I'll learn how to contribute to Thunder myself.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's not exactly what you're asking, but you can view the post as a different user, which would presumably have a different blocklist, so then you could see the comments.

Video: https://files.catbox.moe/l61lry.mp4

I like the idea of being able to view anonymously, too, from your configured anonymous accounts. The infrastructure is there in the post to "view as..." so that might not be too hard to add.

Maybe some day I’ll learn how to contribute to Thunder myself.

That would be awesome!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That's cool! I didn't even realize that function was there. I could also use the Share feature to open the page in a web browser.