I just found out that not all of my Reddit comments had been deleted despite my profile page showing otherwise. ( kbin.social )

RoboRay , 11 months ago

Reddit is broken. It's not unusual for some of your comments to get disconnected from your account profile and not show up there anymore.

They still belong to your account so you can delete them from the actual thread... Just not from your profile.

It's been this way for years... Just most people don't notice because they don't try to clear out their entire history.

DarkThoughts , 11 months ago

Or when replies to a now removed comment ended up as top level comment, making reading the comments sometimes super confusing. Reddit's backend is probably nothing but spaghetti code. Hence why the redesign & mobile app are both also such piles of garbage. It would likely need a complete rewrite, but they probably don't have any sort of way to do that and maintain all the old legacy content. That's also a good reason to go closed source, especially if you want to become a traded company. Investors are probably not having the hots for garbage code that everyone can look at & criticize.