if there is overloading going on then there should be retrying. Seems that this isn’t happening or the retries are so late it ruins usability.

I’m aware of how it should work. But click the two links above.

Since I originally posted this thread only 3 comments are newly visible on my local fedi while the origin fedi (Lemmy.ml) still has 26 comments. So it took over a day to sync 3 comments made days ago? 🤨

What’s frustrating is not all communities are this out of sync. AskLemmy is staying pretty close to immediately synced. Other communities (on same origin server) can be more behind.

Yeah this is pretty frustrating especially being it seems this asklemmy community is working fine…? Hard to grasp what’s going on with comments. 😕

In my example the post is ~4 days old and the comments are as recent as a day ago. I can see the post on my instance but zero comments.

Are all posts synced but not comments if I’m the first to subscribe to a community on my instance?

Just to add… It is really not true to be told it doesn’t matter what instance I’m on when in fact it seems that it really does matter if I’m interesting in participating in comments (or just reading them).

I have “Undetermined” and “English” selected. There is no change to the comment count if I keep adding languages.

Yeah on Lemmy.sf.org the Apple@Lemmy.ml community has most comments missing. But stuff like Memes@Lemmy.ml seem to be synced better. Maybe there wasn’t subscribers for Apple community until I subscribed? So now it is just slowly starting to sync up? If so how long does it take and how many days back will it got to fetch comments?

your replay came quickly… so syncing seems to be working. If something doesn’t get synced is it retried again later? A good chunk of comments are missing across many posts. 😔