This comment was the first one I ever saw that said “Deleted by creator” so I was wondering what would happen if you copy the text of it. Apparently, this shows the text of the deleted comment. Is this a bug?

  • flooppoolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    40·
    9 months ago

    It was probably cached beforehand.

    I remember on the old forum with the alien I could hit refresh constantly to see what deleted comments had said if it was cached on time.

      • flooppoolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        9 months ago

        I think the app is caching things without you having to look at them so they can instantly load. Not 100% though. It’s what I noticed happening years ago.

    • gens@programming.devEnglish
      7·
      9 months ago

      The hardest thing in programming is naming things, off by one errors, and cache invalidation.

    • Rubén@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Lemmy API returns comment content even if it was removed, but with a removed flag. Boost should not show the content in the copy dialog.