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   Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 18:59:14 JST Rich Felker

   I wish folks on Mastodon understood how breaking monster threads are. They put giant load on instance servers and client devices every time someone clicks to load a post in the thread. Especially with media.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 18:59:56 JST Rich Felker

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     There are accounts here who seem to put everything they've ever posted in a single thread... 🤦

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     Dr David Mills (dtl@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 19:05:47 JST Dr David Mills

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     @dalias does it help if all but the initial post are unlisted?

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 19:05:47 JST Rich Felker

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     • Dr David Mills

     @Dtl Nope makes no difference.

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     Dr David Mills (dtl@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 19:40:15 JST Dr David Mills

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     @dalias thank you. I'll try to avoid long threads.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 19:40:15 JST Rich Felker

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     • Dr David Mills

     @Dtl Like, tens of posts are fine. But I've seen threads with 500+...

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 19:41:15 JST Rich Felker

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     • webhat

     @webhat How would software make loading 500 or thousands of posts less costly?

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     webhat (webhat@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 19:41:16 JST webhat

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     @dalias that sounds more like a software issue, than a user issue

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     webhat (webhat@infosec.exchange)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 20:14:35 JST webhat

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     @dalias perhaps by not doing that, only providing a response limited to X posts and then requiring a new request to ask for the previous/next X posts

     Ideally, the first response will contain the first post in the thread, which will allow people who want to read the whole thread the possibility to start from the beginning

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 15-Dec-2024 20:14:35 JST Rich Felker

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     • webhat

     @webhat The problem is these aren't semantic threads, or are only weakly so. The biggest offenders just reply to their last post every time they post something new.