Ask HN: Why can't you add more than 500 replies to a youtube comment ?

by Srisha on 2/27/2021, 2:48:50 PM with 3 comments

  • by mtmail on 2/27/2021, 3:59:55 PM

    I imagine similar reason why Google Search only shows 1000 results maximum: those who hit the limit are either bots/crawlers or can find work-around (like searching for something else). To be honest realistically who is reading 500 replies to a comment?

  • by devenblake on 2/27/2021, 3:14:09 PM

    One reason is probably practicality. Why store more than 500 replies to a given comment when nobody's realistically going to read every single reply anyway?

  • by yuppie_scum on 2/27/2021, 6:52:29 PM

    Because you would have to be a sociopath to read that many comment replies on a YouTube video.