Does anyone have any idea how this bug occurs? I’ve been thinking about it, but do not know enough about net code or web design to give more than rudimentary guesses. Furthermore, are their anyways in which this could be exploited in a harmful manner against Lemmygrad, or should it be a low priority bug fix? Any answers are appreciated, Thank you!

  • Arsen6331 ☭
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    2 years ago

    My guess is it has something to do with how Lemmy updates the comment count on a post when a comment is deleted, maybe it calls the function responsible for that twice, improperly calculates how many comments were actually removed, etc. This is definitely not exploitable, it’s just an issue calculating the count.