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.
Hey! I just tried it myself as well on v0.7.0-1 and it seemed to have worked (navigated to the post and showed comments)
Incidentally, after submitting this post, I tapped the eyeball to view it and nothing happened.
This is a known issue and was fixed recently (but not yet released) See https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/1797!
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.
Glad you figured out the issue!
I’ll take a note here and see if there’s a way to add some notification when this type of situation happens 😅
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. 😁
Done! This should land in the next nightly build
Amazing!
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.
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!
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.
Can confirm, I too have the community blocked and see the same behaviour.
I cleared my cache and even turned off my VPN. No comments for me!
Does it work if you try to visit the comment from your instance? For example, this is the same comment but on lemmy.world: https://lemmy.world/comment/16079890
I figured it out. See my other comment.
However, it appears that Thunder automatically translated the link to lemmy.world. When I view the comments (or rather when I can’t view them), the community name links to this:
So, was it always Lemmy.world I was viewing? Despite the link I posted? The community does seem to be hosted here.
I believe this is expected behaviour! The comment itself was made from a different instance, but the original post was posted in the lemmy.world community.
Thunder user here. The link takes me to said comment and the other comments are shown.
Weird.
