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1. Gregory (grishka@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 07:35:44 UTC Gregory

   In case someone wants possibly the longest thread on the fediverse for testing purposes, here you go: https://mastodon.social/@brownpau/112322747861701800
   With the way I store replies in #Smithereen, this will soon exceed my limit of 256 levels ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

   #activitypub #mastodev

   • Gregory (grishka@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 07:35:43 UTC Gregory

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     What will happen when this limit is exceeded? The "reply key" field will get truncated. It's 1024 bytes and stores the IDs of all parent posts as 32-bit integers, always starting from the top-level one. So essentially, all further replies will be erroneously considered replying to the 256th reply in the thread.

     Now I don't think this is a problem in any real-world use cases, but yikes

     rosa roja repeated this.
   • Gregory (grishka@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 12-May-2024 07:35:43 UTC Gregory

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     I was sent another, longer thread, and yay it broke 🎉