How far can Lemmy support nested comments? Let's find out

Asklemmy@lemmy.ml – 170 points – 8 months ago

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

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is it broken now?

So what's the finding?

It looks like you broke the interwebs my mate

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

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

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.

Yes but like quantified...

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

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.

If in doubt look at the code:

const MAX_COMMENT_DEPTH_LIMIT: usize = 100;

I Guess that is the answer

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

I think you are correct, I based it on:

Maybe there are branches in the tree of comments?

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