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If a post has too many comments to show, first you click "show (n) more comments," then you can post your own. However, after submitting the comment, the "show (n) more comments" link reappears. Clicking it just brings up the text box.

Note that this also happens when you visit a link to a comment that should be hidden (for example, when clicking on a reply in your notifications).

This is possibly a mobile-specific bug: repro-ed on iPod Touch iOS 5.1.1 mobile Safari.

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Possibly a result of this bugfix: Add Comment disappears after editing a comment, or this one: "add comment" link disappears after voting to close a question as off topic with custom comment

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    Norepro on Chrome 28 (desktop), maybe it's a mobile-specific bug?
    – Old Checkmark
    Commented Jul 28, 2013 at 7:04
  • @Old Alright, thanks. Edited.
    – Doorknob
    Commented Jul 28, 2013 at 7:17
  • I got an imgur app :D The fact that the text overflows may be another bug - probably caused by a different comment since there are so many ridiculous comments in the sandbox
    – Doorknob
    Commented Jul 28, 2013 at 7:37
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    Reproduced in mobile version on desktop Chrome (Windows 7)
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jul 28, 2013 at 7:45
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    @Sha Okay, so it's definitely a thing specific to the mobile site.
    – Doorknob
    Commented Jul 28, 2013 at 7:48
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    @Doorknob mobile theme, yes i.e. different CSS and JS files.
    – Shadow Wizard
    Commented Jul 28, 2013 at 7:49
  • Test result on mobile version on desktop Chrome: “show n more comments” does reappear, but clicking it brings up the textbox (tested this on the great croissant debate).
    – Old Checkmark
    Commented Jul 28, 2013 at 8:00
  • @Old Whoops, didn't notice that. Same happens for me.
    – Doorknob
    Commented Jul 28, 2013 at 8:43
  • No, I have seen this very often on desktop Chrome on multiple machines. I've been trying to record it for posterity but it never seems to happen when I have Camtasia open.
    – Aaron Bertrand Staff
    Commented Aug 9, 2013 at 19:15

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This looks mobile-specific (like the commenters already figured out). I'll try to get to this soon; I'll update this answer when I have something to report. In the meantime, a simple workaround is a refresh.

Update: This should be fixed now. I'm using a hidden tag to swap out the text of the link after various interactions. The problem was that the mobile site gets different markup and that hidden tag wasn't getting rendered, so when it came time to swap in the different text, there was nothing there.

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  • Why would I refresh? Basically what happens is that the "add comment" text gets replaced by the "n more comments" text - nothing that would prevent me from commenting again or anything.
    – Doorknob
    Commented Jul 29, 2013 at 23:14
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    @Doorknob: If you really, really want to see the comment link text rendered correctly :-) There's no functional impact.
    – Ben Collins
    Commented Jul 30, 2013 at 14:19
  • Ben, did this fix only occur in code that would be presented to mobile devices? I've been seeing a similar issue (intermittently) on desktop, so I'm curious if the actual code would affect everyone (and hence why I'm suddenly unable to repro).
    – Aaron Bertrand Staff
    Commented Aug 9, 2013 at 20:08
  • @AaronBertrand I made a similar change for both.
    – Ben Collins
    Commented Aug 9, 2013 at 21:15

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