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This bug appears to be fixed, but it is not. The following works for me, but the original poster of the answer can still see the deleted thread. How it seems to someone who didn't post the origina...
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#3: Post edited
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trichoplax
·
2023-06-22T15:30:30Z (11 months ago)
Explain why this is still a bug, and link to GitHub issue
- This bug appears to be fixed, ***but it is not***. The following works for me, but the original poster of the answer can still see the deleted thread.
---- Note that newer threads disappear from view (at least for non-moderators) when the last comment is deleted.
- As a test, I added a comment in the "General comments" section on the [example answer mentioned]. Deleting it resulted in the comment thread disappearing (after a page reload, as expected for comment threads, to avoid confusing the user).
- So it appears this bug is fixed and any old empty threads can be removed by adding a comment and then deleting it. However, this only solves the problem for people other than the poster of the post (question/answer), who can still see the deleted thread.
[example answer mentioned]: https://software.codidact.com/posts/281169#answer-281169
- This bug appears to be fixed, ***but it is not***. The following works for me, but the original poster of the answer can still see the deleted thread.
- ## How it seems to someone who didn't post the original question/answer
- Note that newer threads disappear from view (at least for non-moderators) when the last comment is deleted.
- As a test, I added a comment in the "General comments" section on the [example answer mentioned]. Deleting it resulted in the comment thread disappearing (after a page reload, as expected for comment threads, to avoid confusing the user).
- So it appears this bug is fixed and any old empty threads can be removed by adding a comment and then deleting it. However, this only solves the problem for people other than the poster of the post (question/answer), who can still see the deleted thread.
- ## How it seems to the poster of the original question/answer
- As a test, I added a comment thread below one of my own questions. I then deleted the comments, leaving an empty thread. I refreshed the page and the empty thread disappeared as expected.
- However, I now have a "Show more" button below my post that is not visible to anyone else:
- 
- Clicking on "Show more" reveals the empty comment thread that is hidden from everyone else:
- 
- Clicking on the empty thread title expands the thread to show that I cannot see the deleted comment inside it:
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- Clicking on "See the whole thread" opens the empty thread in a new page:
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- This informs me that I cannot add any more comments.
- There seems to be no purpose to allowing me to see this empty thread that I cannot read the deleted comments of and cannot add new comments to, so this seems to be a bug.
- I've [raised an issue on GitHub].
- [example answer mentioned]: https://software.codidact.com/posts/281169#answer-281169
- [raised an issue on GitHub]: https://github.com/codidact/qpixel/issues/1084
#2: Post edited
by
trichoplax
·
2023-06-22T14:59:07Z (11 months ago)
Update as it turns out this is not fixed for everyone
This bug appears to be fixed.- Note that newer threads disappear from view (at least for non-moderators) when the last comment is deleted.
- As a test, I added a comment in the "General comments" section on the [example answer mentioned]. Deleting it resulted in the comment thread disappearing (after a page reload, as expected for comment threads, to avoid confusing the user).
So it appears this bug is fixed and any old empty threads can be removed by adding a comment and then deleting it.- [example answer mentioned]: https://software.codidact.com/posts/281169#answer-281169
- This bug appears to be fixed, ***but it is not***. The following works for me, but the original poster of the answer can still see the deleted thread.
- ---
- Note that newer threads disappear from view (at least for non-moderators) when the last comment is deleted.
- As a test, I added a comment in the "General comments" section on the [example answer mentioned]. Deleting it resulted in the comment thread disappearing (after a page reload, as expected for comment threads, to avoid confusing the user).
- So it appears this bug is fixed and any old empty threads can be removed by adding a comment and then deleting it. However, this only solves the problem for people other than the poster of the post (question/answer), who can still see the deleted thread.
- [example answer mentioned]: https://software.codidact.com/posts/281169#answer-281169
#1: Initial revision
by
trichoplax
·
2023-06-22T12:14:41Z (11 months ago)
This bug appears to be fixed. Note that newer threads disappear from view (at least for non-moderators) when the last comment is deleted. As a test, I added a comment in the "General comments" section on the [example answer mentioned]. Deleting it resulted in the comment thread disappearing (after a page reload, as expected for comment threads, to avoid confusing the user). So it appears this bug is fixed and any old empty threads can be removed by adding a comment and then deleting it. [example answer mentioned]: https://software.codidact.com/posts/281169#answer-281169