Shouldn't the ux not crash handling link text? I understand it's a lot of mentions & that amount is crazy. But why does a mass amount of linked text cause the whole thing to crash? Something has to im...
Because it's not the text that causes it to crash. Well in this case, he attached almost 95,000 text blocks (the standard allowed number is like 3000-5000) so right htere he broke the standard settings.
Then, he tagged 1675 DIFFERENT people.
You have to understand how federation works. Like when you and I talk my instance "gets" the info from you. Your instance "gets" the info from me.
When there are three people. Person 1: get person 2, get person 3. Person 2: get person 1, get person 3. Person 3: get person 1, get person 2.
Then when they post, that repeats. Now imagine a thread with 1675 people and all the instances/users are sending requests and posts at once. It's like millions of federation touches.
It's not a software problem, its a user breaking the software problem
Then, he tagged 1675 DIFFERENT people.
You have to understand how federation works. Like when you and I talk my instance "gets" the info from you. Your instance "gets" the info from me.
When there are three people. Person 1: get person 2, get person 3. Person 2: get person 1, get person 3. Person 3: get person 1, get person 2.
Then when they post, that repeats. Now imagine a thread with 1675 people and all the instances/users are sending requests and posts at once. It's like millions of federation touches.
It's not a software problem, its a user breaking the software problem