• grue@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      As the saying goes, there are two fundamentally difficult things about programming:

      1. cache coherence
      2. coming up with good names for things
      3. off-by-one errors

      Negative comment counts are likely caused by the latter.

    • TheSaneWriter@lemmy.thesanewriter.com
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      1 year ago

      It’s something glitchy that happens when people delete comments. I know Voyager recently pushed a fix, I’m not sure about Liftoff (If I’m recognizing the UI in your screenshot correctly).

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      If a user deletes a comment it subtracts from the count, seems to go to negative numbers sometimes, maybe when it’s removed it subtracts two on certain circumstances