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How far can Lemmy support nested comments? Let's find out (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by cheese_greater@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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

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[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

It's open source, so you could just go find that answer in the code, right?

Also, now I think of it, couldn't you just do this with one account?

I don't mean to ruin the fun or anything 😆

[–] Catsrules@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 year ago

You never know until you test it.

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

That's assuming there's a hard-coded limit. There very likely isn't, but things can break when you push the limits of software like this. You won't be able to easily see what those are by looking at the code.