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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i just find them sorta annoying, especially when they're used how comments are supposed to be used (for long discussions) or when people try to use them to compete or something (like happened on darflen) and cause just generally spammy posts :/
i’m pretty sure jeffalo also doesn’t love them, especially when you’re not really contributing anything meaningful but just using them for the sake of making the longest chain possible.
yeah if the changes i suggested were implemented it wouldn’t screw up the layout of posts if people were just making a repost chain of the same thing, since it would just be continuous
name
text
interact bar
name
text
interact bar
over and over again rather than
name
name
name
name
text
interact bar
interact bar
interact bar
which increasingly gets further in
yeah but still, it encourages spam imo.
look at this:
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 :/
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.
(whoops, meant to send this ages ago, adhd moment)
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.