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

3 pointsby Srishaabout 4 years ago

3 comments

mtmailabout 4 years ago

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?

devenblakeabout 4 years ago

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?

yuppie_scumabout 4 years ago

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