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Re:New way to have complex discussions by basil-rash on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @08:07AM (#40284529)
To be cyclical they’d need to have elements in reply to a post made after they were created. Including back references is a way of adding more parents, not children.
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Re:New way to have complex discussions by philosopher1234 on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @11:10AM (#40286584)
You can reference posts that haven’t happened yet
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Re:New way to have complex discussions by basil-rash on Tuesday May 07, 2024 @01:06PM (#40288446)
You are referring to providing a sequential post ID past the current latest? That is more of a quirk of their naming convention than a product feature. UUID's, for instance, would not support this, and checks could be made in either case to prevent it.
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