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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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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Test

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think there is any limit. The amount of nestings shouldn't even really be a database field. I think Lemmy just stores which comment was replied to and then has recursion logic to display it right.

[–] PoolloverNathan@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Maybe