Looks like a bug! For me, from lemmy.world's web interface, it is -1 as of this posting.
As the saying goes, there are two fundamentally difficult things about programming:
cache coherence
coming up with good names for things
off-by-one errors
Negative comment counts are likely caused by the latter.
It's something glitchy that happens when people delete comments. I know Voyager recently pushed a fix, I'm not sure about Liftoff (If I'm recognizing the UI in your screenshot correctly).
If a user deletes a comment it subtracts from the count, seems to go to negative numbers sometimes, maybe when it's removed it subtracts two on certain circumstances
How does this have negative three comments??
Looks like a bug! For me, from lemmy.world's web interface, it is -1 as of this posting.
As the saying goes, there are two fundamentally difficult things about programming:
Negative comment counts are likely caused by the latter.
It's something glitchy that happens when people delete comments. I know Voyager recently pushed a fix, I'm not sure about Liftoff (If I'm recognizing the UI in your screenshot correctly).
If a user deletes a comment it subtracts from the count, seems to go to negative numbers sometimes, maybe when it's removed it subtracts two on certain circumstances