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Are comments supposed to backfill on posts?
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this post was submitted on 05 Jun 2023
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OK - it seems this is expected behaviour as per https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2825
This makes sense, but it feels like a strange experience to lose comments for the recent 20 posts that are synced. I'll keep an eye on it and make sure new posts line up with the posts on the instance that runs the community
Thanks for digging that up. Had been one of my outstanding questions. I agree with the initial requestor of that issue; it will be a major source of friction for users migrating to Lemmy from Reddit.
I'd like to be able to at least manually trigger the retrieval of a set of posts/comments as a user. Otherwise as the requestor noted, its going to make interacting with "new" communities difficult and unintuitive if you can't see comments from before when it was synced to your local instance.
Yeah, I agree. There's also something that does cause them to come though - maybe them getting upvoted, or edited? - because I set up my instance just this afternoon and I have some comments that were from more than a day ago.
Votes and edits makes sense, sounds like a good guess to me!
That explains A LOT.
Very odd behavior though. Better start subscribing to communties I suppose.