Last modified: 2014-09-01 12:40:42 UTC
If a top-level comment is hidden, an anonymous user doesn't see any of the replies to it. This is really confusing when there's only one top-level comment: the entire topic appears empty to anonymous users with no indication why, despite "4 comments" (see URL in bug). To reproduce, start a new topic with one top-level comment, make tons of replies to it, then hide it. This is similar to bug 63657. One part of the fix: If some of the posts under a topic aren't visible to the current user, change the flow-topic-comments to "4* comments" with an asterisk and give it a title tooltip saying "4 comments, some not shown". I'll file a separate bug.
> If some of the posts under a topic aren't visible to the current user, > change the flow-topic-comments to "4* comments" with an asterisk... I suggested this in bug 60491 comment #2.
The fix should simply be to show hidden topics/posts to everyone, not just logged in users. I'm not even sure why we implemented it this way originally!
Change 134109 had a related patch set uploaded by Matthias Mullie: (bug 63789) anonymous users don't see any replies to a hidden comment https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/134109
Change 134109 merged by jenkins-bot: (bug 63789) anonymous users don't see any replies to a hidden comment https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/134109
Patch in comment 4 was merged - assuming this bug is FIXED. If that is not the case: Please reopen and elaborate what is left to do here to get this report fixed.
