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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does/ did reddit have a limit like this?

[–] Krudler 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

At one time it was discovered that there was no nesting limit.

And of course that caused people to start the "bottles of beer thread".

We got something like ~~2,000 or 3,000~~ 1,300 into it before literal devs came into the thread and begged us to stop "you are breaking Reddit".

That resulted in the thread being shut down and nesting limits implemented. What those limits are, I do not know. I just know at one time they didn't exist.

Edit https://www.reddit.com/r/bottlesofbeer/comments/dfpwp/the_count_is_done/

[–] GeneralVincent 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~They got to nearly 10 million?!?~~

Ok I read the comments wrong lol still that's crazy

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I love how literal devs had to come in and ask them to stop lmao

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The fact that the top comment is, "what now?", "you ever try Minecraft?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I went back and forth with someone on Reddit for months on a single thread just saying bonk. That thread was long as fuck is all I know

[–] Clanket 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It got to the point where I actually ended up making a discord bot named bonk, and you can just type BONK and it will BONK back, lol

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago