@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.

@ponfarr Thank you!!! 😊 TBTH the hard part was more figuring out Mastodon's API than visualising the thing!

Feel free to fork it and try other D3 hierarchical layouts! Should be a way to get most of the ones in here running: https://github.com/d3/d3-hierarchy

@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 😊

@laser @starwall Thank you!! 💚

@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.

@moth @andi oh that's incredible

@starwall @andi oh wait found it

@moth @starwall @andi is this a golden ratio proof

@CyclopsCaveman @starwall @andi flirting IS natural and perfect

@moth @andi I have seen the face of god and this is it

@moth @starwall Oh wow!! 😍😍😍

@moth @andi @starwall That's a really neat spiral action going on

@scribblefrog @starwall Hmm, seems the API is missing a toot. It's worth noting that I can only visualise the toots that botsin.space have seen, and the stratification algo will die if it can't find a particular parent. Will try to build a workaround for the next version!! 💚

@andi @scribblefrog @starwall

If you search for the URL of any ActivityPub object, the instance will update its record in the database.

I had to do that recently when an avatar refused to update.

@ben @scribblefrog @starwall Oh wow, that is really good to know — I can write some error handling for that no prob 🙌

@ben So, I have the local ID of the problematic status but not its original URL or instance ID. Any ideas? Worst case I can patch around by creating dummy objects but it'd be nice if I didn't have to do that.

@andi

does https://botsin.space/web/statuses/[the local ID] show or redirect to anything useful?

@ben Doesn't seem like it, appears to be a 404.

@andi probably a deleted toot or a toot from someone who blocks the entire botsin.space domain.

@ben Quite likely. Okay cool, I'll do some error handling that makes it show up as a like a white dot or something. Thanks for the insight! 💚

@scribblefrog I published a new version, try it now! 💚

@andi AWESOME!! It worked!!!!

@spookcentral hey your hellthread looks like this!!!

https://cryptids.online/users/spookcentral/statuses/101016314532203950

@scribblefrog @spookcentral It's definitely one of the cooler shapes I've seen!

@zlchxo @andi you are very much correct

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

@eryn @starwall @woozle It's just an Observable notebook, please feel free to fork! 💚