>>15883
This behavior comes from the Xanderlynx frontend by Robi Pires, so any fix would have to come from or be submitted upstream. We presently haven't the time to do that ourselves, but please feel free to let us know if a fix comes from elsewhere.
>>15885
>>15886
Location flags do come from IP, as provided by the GeoLite2 database by MaxMind, which LynxChan downloads and then locally looks up.
Which IP addresses correspond to which locations changes as different IP blocks get traded, reassigned, and so on, so the database needs to be updated regularly. However, MaxMind changed things so that the GeoLite2 database can only be downloaded if you have an account with them, and they do not permit account registration from VPNs, Tor, or using anonymous email providers, so we can't safely register an account.
As such, our IP-to-location data is quite old, so it will probably give inaccurate flags some of the time. If someone to provides us a MaxMind GeoLite2 download key that we can use, then the data could be updated.
Nobody was using flags until now, so the issue hasn't come up.