hi can people stop complaining about repost chains please. it really bugs me, since it’s meta about people just having fun. there is, as far as i’m aware, no strain on the servers from doing it (i would imagine they’re simply a reference to the post, which is then dereferenced n times for the api representation). on the website, you have to explicitly click to reveal sub-posts, meaning it’s your fault if it gets large, and you can reload if it screws up your layout. as for wasteof for android, you can just Not Look At The Post. that’s an option. sure, it’s a little bit annoying to scroll past, but you are using a third party client (even if it’s labelled official), that isn’t developed by jeffalo. it’s also probably on micah’s to-do list. additionally, like tumblr, reposting is the only way to add a comment to something while making show as an original post. jeffalo could do like tumblr did and change the post to show on the same layer as the original post, meaning it doesn’t fuck up the layout the further in the post gets. then, there could just be a view more button like the current implementation.
yeah that’s annoying, because it’s something specifically designed to generate reposts. instead, people should just naturally create repost chains, that way, your entire feed isn’t filled with it.
but who defines what's "natural"? is the grilled cheese wasteof chain (which is completely unrelated to grilled cheeses now) natural? there are over 30 posts in my feed now due to it (all of them vbeing quite long) so it's definitely negatively impacting my feed :/