I am unable to observe responses on a specific discussion.

[beedell-roke]

Discussion Type

Bug

Discussion Content

At PowerShell/PowerShell/discussions/27362, I observe:

This persists, irrespective of browser and account:

Due to what discussions/202876#discussioncomment-17899035 describes, I am unable to submit this to GitHub Support.

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[dhruv-techdev]

This looks like a stale Discussions counter, rather than a browser or account problem.

GitHub distinguishes between top-level comments and replies to those comments. Your screenshots show 0 comments · 3 replies, but there is no parent comment available to render those replies.

The strongest clue is that the discussion now reports 0 comments and only 1 participant. Earlier, your screenshot showed 2 participants and 3 replies. That suggests another participant's comment/thread was deleted or removed, while GitHub's aggregate reply count had not yet been recalculated.

So the likely sequence is:

comment + replies existed
↓
parent thread was deleted/removed
↓
visible comments disappeared
↓
"3 replies" counter temporarily remained stale

This also explains why changing browsers or accounts did nothing: the inconsistency was on GitHub's side, not in local browser state.

As an independent check, GitHub CLI can request the actual visible discussion comments:

gh discussion view
PowerShell/PowerShell#27362
--comments

GitHub documents --comments as retrieving the discussion's comments and their replies.

If that returns no comments while the web UI still reports replies, that is good evidence of a GitHub Discussions metadata/counting bug rather than inaccessible comments.

[beedell-roke]

@dhruv-techdev, that does appear to indicate a discrepancy, if me being lazy enough to trust an LLM (as you evidently did) is any evidence. ¹ Whilst @fakavillain-ui's spam remains, I can't be bothered to manually inspect it anymore, considering that GitHub shan't remediate this regardless.

Footnotes

1. chatgpt.com/s/t_6a7b41f613488191a817020c4ecd393f ² ↩

2. chatgpt.com/share/6a7b41c1-fba0-83eb-9a55-cbed2a5f0459 ³ ↩

3. chatgpt.com/c/6a7b4003-1cdc-83eb-ba65-838296f7fc8c ↩