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.
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yeah but like i said there’s no way to put that comment on a feed, it’s required to use reposts for that purpose. when people make this argument it makes no sense, since reposts then have no point bar sharing posts, which can just be done like twitter retweets.
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no, reposts are fine, but when the only point of a repost is to endlessly make a chain longer, it becomes problematic. jeffalo has said before that you should avoid doing this type of thing as every post in a repost chain is shown separately on the feed, which is very annoying/disruptive to people's feeds and doesn't really serve much benefit. if you want to have a long chain of replies such as this recent repost chain, why not just create a post and say "if you want to participate, comment under this post" or something. this means that only the people who care about the chain have to do the scrolling thus not negatively affecting anyone else.
i don't think the limits should be unreasonable, but some amount of limitation wouldn't be a bad thing.