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Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by Deimorz on Monday July 30, 2018 @08:33PM (#17649574)
Nope, because the old one's already been pushed off the end of the list and it doesn't re-generate the list when you unsave, just removes the item from the list.

Imagine I have a list of max length 5, when I initially fill it up it looks like [5, 4, 3, 2, 1]. If I save one more thing, it adds 6 at the front, then truncates the list and removes the 1 from the end, so now you have [6, 5, 4, 3, 2]. At that point, if I unsave #3, it just removes it from the list so you'd have [6, 5, 4, 2]. #1 is still saved, but nothing happens to pull it back into the list.

Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by ralfd on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @12:09AM (#17650479)
What if you unsave 2 items and save 1. Is then the list remade?
Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by Deimorz on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:55AM (#17650860)
No, the list is never remade. The new item just gets inserted into the list, exactly the same as if it had never reached the limit in the first place.
Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by rotred on Monday July 30, 2018 @11:05PM (#17650240)
why would they make the limit so low?
Re:How F5Bot Slurps All of Reddit by Deimorz on Tuesday July 31, 2018 @01:58AM (#17650873)
Not sure, the 1000 limit is in the file from its very first version 10 years ago: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/commit/33fd4e9684ca...

1000 probably seemed like a lot at the time or had reasonable performance, and it's just never been changed.