yea it would definitely suck if it only loaded 50 comments at a time, or 50 replies under a comment, but I think it’s fine as-is

once a comment thread gets deeper than 9, it’s a slapfight that’s best avoided.

lol for sure, 9 is already a lot

I don’t understand your comment. This is a fix for a crash in the backend, I don’t see how it relates to lemmy-ui because it seems like any frontend would cause a crash with this issue if it’s hitting the same API route. Also 50 is a lot. Finding a post with 50 comments is rare, finding one with a chain of over 50 in a row is even more rare. Such a thread would be clunky to display in the main comment tree anyways.

This isn’t just a comment with 50 replies, this is 50 levels of indentation.

It’s also funny to criticize Lemmy for being biased towards its own frontend when it probably has more (active and working) frontends than any competitor (Reddit, Mbin)

I’m not sure this can be really fixed with Python 3, maybe we just have to hope for Python 4