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Text from deleted comment can be retrieved by copying it (i.imgur.com)
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This comment was the first one I ever saw that said "Deleted by creator" so I was wondering what would happen if you copy the text of it. Apparently, this shows the text of the deleted comment. Is this a bug?

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[–] flooppoolf@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It was probably cached beforehand.

I remember on the old forum with the alien I could hit refresh constantly to see what deleted comments had said if it was cached on time.

[–] gens@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

The hardest thing in programming is naming things, off by one errors, and cache invalidation.

[–] rmayayo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Lemmy API returns comment content even if it was removed, but with a removed flag. Boost should not show the content in the copy dialog.