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So recently I have been facing this issue that several posts show a higher number of comments than the actual number of comments that i can see. For example in the photo, the number of comments is shown as 14 but the post only shows me 5 comments. Is this some sort of federation issue or is this a bug¿?

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[–] Papanca@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

To the left you see the number of upvotes, to the right the number of comments each user made.

[–] Sentau@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah but at the top, the post shows 14 comments but the total of number of comments shown in the post is only 5

[–] Papanca@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, right, totally overlooked that part, sorry.

[–] Sentau@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Don't worry. Happens to all of us

[–] RoundSparrow@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is this some sort of federation issue or is this a bug¿?

Both. There is a bug in lemmy_server where federated edits seem to increment the new comment count, It's been mentioned on GitHub issues. See if you can spot if those 5 comments had edits.

[–] Sentau@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

3 of the comments did have edits so that might explain it. Thanks for the explanation