Shout out to Claire* and Eugen for doing the frontend on this, I got pulled away to work on other things and so they pushed it over da finish line and added a whole new AsyncRefresh feature on top.
#FetchAllReplies is for all the small instances out there! it makes a huge difference: not just seeing more stuff, but you can really feel how big of a deal it was to have been missing all the second-order convos that happen between people that weren't already mutuals once it started happening.
Moderation is the other big winner from reply fetching, as now harassment that would previously only be visible to the target and the poster can be spotted, reported, and removed by anyone passing by.
Glad its now default!
*(Not tagging bc I'm sure her notifs are noisy)
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i hadn't "taken poison on purpose and just full on vibe coded as a bit" in awhile, so i gave it a whirl trying to mimic the manic intensity of some of the PRs i see nowadays. i guess i didn't really appreciate how anyone who talks about using LLMs for code is eliding the fact that they are stupendously wealthy or otherwise have access to resources, because doing some stuff i do for free for like an hour on cheap mode cost me $15, which is the maximum i will spent on a bit of this caliber. if i was actually "working" with that there's no way it would cost me less than $200 a day to simply do things i do on my own now.
