Connect stops loading additional comments in posts with very large numbers of comments / loads empty comment threads (yiffit.net)

submitted 1 year ago by Eccitaze@yiffit.net to c/lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca

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This is a fairly persistent issue that appears to be exclusive to Connect, and extremely annoying.

Any time a post accumulates very large numbers of comments (say, 300 or more), Connect will eventually just... stop loading additional comments. At first, scrolling down will load a few more top-level comments, but eventually it'll just give up and act like there's no more comments to load, even though there Connect has loaded less than 50 comments out of a 1,000+ comment megathread. Worse yet, if a user direct links to a comment on one of those megathreads, Connect will load a completely empty comment thread. This issue doesn't occur on Voyager or Jerboa, nor on the web UI.

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[-] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Hi, thanks for the feedback! Is this a persistent issue or more intermittent? I'm wondering if it's due to a timeout I have set on loading comments where it will timeout for heavy threads.

[-] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

Welp, I spoke too soon. Happens on this post: https://lemm.ee/post/4849090

Curiously, it seems that if I constantly scroll down and keep immediately loading comments, it seems to work. But if I stop and actually read, once I reach the bottom it won't load any more.

Side note, some feedback in the UI regarding what's going on would be helpful--a little pop-up or loading icon when it loads more comments.

[-] Eccitaze@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

It used to be persistent, but it's actually stopped happening the past few days--for example, I just loaded a 900-comment post. Previously, it would give up and stop loading new top-level comments after the 3rd or 4th batch (for a grand total of roughly 30-40 comments), but today it loaded several hundred comments without issue.

I don't know if it's a recent change to the app, an update to my Lemmy instance, or something else. I'll keep monitoring, and update this post if it starts happening again.

this post was submitted on 18 Aug 2023

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