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How far can Lemmy support nested comments? Let's find out (lemmy.world)

submitted 10 months ago by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Comment on the top level thing and someonw will hopefully comment on yours. Just say like "Test"

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[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So what's the finding?

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It looks like you broke the interwebs my mate

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Did I actually do something bad? Like are y'all upset at me?

[–] Anbalsilfer@lemmy.ml 13 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You're a grey hat. Technical problems like these are likely to never get fixed until their consequences are demonstrated.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I feel like I'm def more of an IdeasGuy, like I don't implement stuff but I guess I'm good at finding edge cases/outliers.

[–] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yes but like quantified...

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

looks like 128 deep from here, and that number feels very familiar some how. I just cant place where Ive seen it before...

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Hmm... I got 99. The red line is there 14 times with full color change + 1 extra line. Each time it's 7 colors, so 99. I double-checked.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

If in doubt look at the code:

const MAX_COMMENT_DEPTH_LIMIT: usize = 100;

I Guess that is the answer

[–] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 10 months ago

Now, what would happen with other instances if you compiled it with higher number for your own 🤔

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think you are correct, I based it on:

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Maybe there are branches in the tree of comments?

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

128 = 2^7; powers of 2 show up a lot in computing. Looks like it's 100 though per the below comment.