Ask HN: Why can't you add more than 500 replies to a youtube comment ?

Posted by Srisha on Saturday February 27, 2021 @09:48AM
from the ask-hn dept.

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't you add more than 500 replies to a yout... by mtmail on Saturday February 27, 2021 @10:59AM (#26285635)

I imagine similar reason why Google Search only shows 1000 results maximum: those who hit the limit are either bots/crawlers or can find work-around (like searching for something else). To be honest realistically who is reading 500 replies to a comment?

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't you add more than 500 replies to a yout... by devenblake on Saturday February 27, 2021 @10:14AM (#26285315)

One reason is probably practicality. Why store more than 500 replies to a given comment when nobody's realistically going to read every single reply anyway?

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Re:Ask HN: Why can't you add more than 500 replies to a yout... by yuppie_scum on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:52PM (#26287113)

Because you would have to be a sociopath to read that many comment replies on a YouTube video.

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