Public discussion • Comment #4408
Community contribution
2026-10-25T14:36:07+00:00
We did discover a bug. Apologies for that. We have deleted 5 comments for various legitimate reasons, and have been very transparent about that. The bug we found is that when a parent comment has replies, and the parent comment is removed, the replies become invisible (not removed, not deleted, not technically hidden). The replies on a comment we removed (one of the 5) had no parent to attach to and thus disappeared.
When you see on other platforms "the original post has been removed" but still see the replies, this is the same concept, except our replies did not attach because we had no placeholder indicating the original commebt was removed.
We are building this platform, in real time, and will make errors. We will find a way to restore the replies on hidden or removed parent comments, so that your speech lives.
Our apologies.
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