Automattic / Automattic/docspress

Submitting a comment redirects to a blank "Comment sent" state and the original post disappears

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JavaScript
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Description

### Description
When submitting a comment on a post, the page navigates away from the article and shows only a "Comment sent" confirmation message, with the original post content no longer visible.\

### Steps to reproduce
Open any blog post with comments enabled.
Scroll to the comment form and submit a comment.
Observe that the page reloads/redirects to a state showing "Comment sent" instead of staying on the post with the new comment appearing inline.

### Expected behavior
After submitting a comment, the user should remain on the post page (or be redirected back to it) with the new comment visible in the discussion thread, similar to standard WordPress comment behavior.

### Actual behavior
The post content disappears and only a generic "Comment sent" message is shown, breaking the reading/discussion flow.

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Research direction

Start at the comment form and the submission or redirect handling for a post with comments enabled. Reproduce the issue, then trace how the post page is selected after submission; done means the reader returns to the post with the new comment visible inline instead of only seeing “Comment sent”.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript, wordpress
Domain
frontend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
55/100

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