On 8/31/26 15:13 'Albrecht Schlosser' wrote:

I'm having troubles with GitHub comments on commits. Sometimes I get notifications about new comments on a particular commit, but when I follow the link I don't see any comments, although there is an icon that shows a number of comments.

Is this only me, or is this a general GitHub problem?

For instance, take a look at this link:

https://github.com/fltk/fltk/commit/28e541513f3d51900ca1e7317a10a752dabcb5be#r198351290

What I see if I scroll down looks like this:


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Thanks in advance for any insights.

Meanwhile I tried several hints (including "full refresh with ctrl/shift/r" and using a private browser window) but this didn't help. Logging in as suggested (when I was not logged in) didn't help either

However, switching from my preferred view mode "unified diff" to "split diff" immediately displayed the comments. Switching back to "unified diff" kept the comments visible. This is obviously not a "user state" issue. I had to do this in all open browser sessions with different browsers, and this always worked. That's weird.

BTW: Thanks to Ian for your comment. I'll try that as well when I encounter this issue for the next time.

1. as written above, switching from unified to split diff displays comments
2. switching back to unified diff keeps comments visible
3. Doing a full refresh (ctrl/shift/r) in "unified diff" view does no longer display comments.