@starwall I'm just happy to have finally found a good use for ObservableHq 😂

@andi You have done a great service today. Lemme find the original Welcome to Mastodon hellthread...

@starwall Ooooh YES PLEASE!!!! 💚💚💚

@andi FOUND IT, it took a google search but I found it. https://radical.town/@starwall/101014720401270877

@starwall Hmmm! Yeah, I think the style the visualiser uses tends to be emphasis quantity of toots over number of people in them. I should do something like size nodes based on number of participants...

@andi admittedly, Hellthread 2 was way bigger.

@Quixote171 @starwall INDEED! 😄 (and thanks!)

(But mainly because I'm about to head to drinks and my mobile's dead 😓 )

@andi @Quixote171 You are a genius for this. A genius and a saint. Thank you again, this is epic.

@starwall @andi
And you can kinda watch it spider in real-time. This is awesome.
Hey, @Slipperywerm - check this out.

@Quixote171 @andi @Slipperywerm oh no, wait a second

@starwall @andi
This is so frickin cool. I love it.
Just looking at threads for the rest of the day.

@Quixote171 @starwall Thanks! Glad you like it!! 💚

@starwall @Quixote171 Thus far my best use of workplace 10% time ngl 😊

@ben @andi we need a varying size of the dots, representing how many boosts and favs they got. That would be the logical next step.

@ben @andi oh my fortune teller one is satisfying.

@ben @andi @Quixote171 this one is even more satisfying.

@starwall @ben @andi
Whoa, that one is very cool!

@ben @andi @Quixote171 here's @bryn's self-hellthread (https://radical.town/web/statuses/101060552212064380)

@ben @andi @Quixote171 @bryn and here's @nuttgodd's very interesting TL thread

@starwall @andi @Quixote171 @bryn @nuttgodd I mean, I *guess* you could call it a timeline thread.

@starwall @ben I'm doing that now.

@carbontwelve @starwall @Slipperywerm@radical.town Thank you! 😊💚

@imani @starwall That's like choosing a favourite child, can't do it. 💚

@andi It shows that visualising a large discussion is not currently a solved problem, and people who have the problem and find even a *partial* solution get very excited.

For a while.

Then give up and go away.

There are (to them) more pressing issues.

@starwall Yeah I'm really curious why it did that. Someone deleted a post or something? The knzkpocalypse?

Anyway, over the moon that you like it, I get out all my code art angst on here and it's absolutely beautiful when something connects. 💚💚💚

@tykayn It's possible it's not working very well at present, I haven't looked at it in like a year 😅

@andi @starwall

And, actually, the way I store threads imposes a limit of 256 nesting levels... That's a lot, but exceeding it is bound to break things at least visually.

@grishka @andi @starwall

@ColinTheMathmo interesting for stress-testing?

:D

@grishka @andi Hellthread generally refers to a thread with a lot of mentions, like this

@shitpisscum @grishka @andi An unwise man once said: A hellthread is a thread which is hellish

which means nothing

@grumbulon @shitpisscum @grishka It's called a "hellthread" because, much like Hell, once you're in it, it's hard to escape (god have mercy on our souls)

@BalooUriza @starwall Given the way it's architected and how ActivityPub works I imagine it's a bit more difficult than I'd initially imagined.

@andi USENET had similar issues but visualized threading was ubiquitous by the early 1990s.
@starwall

@BalooUriza @starwall Did Usenet allow message deletion though? I think there's the sticky bit...

@andi Yes, though by the late 1990s cancel requests were rarely honored.

@starwall

@BalooUriza @starwall Huh, TIL...!!