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Reddit doesn't even allow users to save more than 1000 posts, and worse does not visibly document this or provide any kind of warning that the limit has been ex

Reddit doesn't even allow users to save more than 1000 posts, and worse does not visibly document this or provide any kind of warning that the limit has been exceeded. Anecdotally, I've read users say that revisiting the saved pages will still show an "unsave" button so the information is recorded somewhere. But once a user exceeds 1000 entries on their "saved" page, adding new ones will silently vaporize old ones. https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/6nxqjm/maximum_of_1000_posts_is_it_true/ https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/6nxqjm/maximum_of_100...

Puer 8y ago
Saving posts is also notoriously unreliable, in my experience. I've had posts where I've clicked the "save" button and it's flipped to "unsave" but upon refreshing the page the button resets as if it was never pressed (and it never gets added.)
Deimorz 8y ago
It's a bit weirder than that. It actually does save all the posts, but the "saved" page (like almost every other page on the site) will only show you 1000 items, so there's just no way to access all the older items once they've been "pushed off the end". I posted some more information about it a while ago here: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/7en0uu/my_saved_posts_end_after_a_year/dq69oz3/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/7en0uu/my_saved_posts...
- lucb1e 8y ago
  If you unsave a newer one, wouldn't the older one pop up again because it updates the index with limit 1000 again? If the data is there, it should find all posts and then truncate, in that order, if I'm understanding this correctly.
  - Deimorz 8y ago
    Nope, because the old one's already been pushed off the end of the list and it doesn't re-generate the list when you unsave, just removes the item from the list. Imagine I have a list of max length 5, when I initially fill it up it looks like [5, 4, 3, 2, 1]. If I save one more thing, it adds 6 at the front, then truncates the list and removes the 1 from the end, so now you have [6, 5, 4, 3, 2]. At that point, if I unsave #3, it just removes it from the list so you'd have [6, 5, 4, 2]. #1 is still saved, but nothing happens to pull it back into the list.
    - rotred 8y ago
      why would they make the limit so low?
      - Deimorz 8y ago
        Not sure, the 1000 limit is in the file from its very first version 10 years ago: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/commit/33fd4e9684ca7668b57aa32ab6a064cd2a86ef6d#diff-8e12a829341215de40b3890544842ed0R14 https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/commit/33fd4e9684ca... 1000 probably seemed like a lot at the time or had reasonable performance, and it's just never been changed.
    - ralfd 8y ago
      What if you unsave 2 items and save 1. Is then the list remade?
      - Deimorz 8y ago
        No, the list is never remade. The new item just gets inserted into the list, exactly the same as if it had never reached the limit in the first place.
bluetidepro 8y ago
A good work around tip is to set up an https://ifttt.com/ https://ifttt.com/ to trigger when you save to offload your saves to somewhere else. I save all my reddit saves to Evernote, personally. It can help with this known issue!

Puer 8y ago

Saving posts is also notoriously unreliable, in my experience. I've had posts where I've clicked the "save" button and it's flipped to "unsave" but upon refreshing the page the button resets as if it was never pressed (and it never gets added.)

Deimorz 8y ago

It's a bit weirder than that. It actually does save all the posts, but the "saved" page (like almost every other page on the site) will only show you 1000 items, so there's just no way to access all the older items once they've been "pushed off the end". I posted some more information about it a while ago here: https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/7en0uu/my_saved_posts_end_after_a_year/dq69oz3/?context=3 https://www.reddit.com/r/help/comments/7en0uu/my_saved_posts...

lucb1e 8y ago
If you unsave a newer one, wouldn't the older one pop up again because it updates the index with limit 1000 again? If the data is there, it should find all posts and then truncate, in that order, if I'm understanding this correctly.
- Deimorz 8y ago
  Nope, because the old one's already been pushed off the end of the list and it doesn't re-generate the list when you unsave, just removes the item from the list. Imagine I have a list of max length 5, when I initially fill it up it looks like [5, 4, 3, 2, 1]. If I save one more thing, it adds 6 at the front, then truncates the list and removes the 1 from the end, so now you have [6, 5, 4, 3, 2]. At that point, if I unsave #3, it just removes it from the list so you'd have [6, 5, 4, 2]. #1 is still saved, but nothing happens to pull it back into the list.
  - rotred 8y ago
    why would they make the limit so low?
    - Deimorz 8y ago
      Not sure, the 1000 limit is in the file from its very first version 10 years ago: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/commit/33fd4e9684ca7668b57aa32ab6a064cd2a86ef6d#diff-8e12a829341215de40b3890544842ed0R14 https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit/commit/33fd4e9684ca... 1000 probably seemed like a lot at the time or had reasonable performance, and it's just never been changed.
  - ralfd 8y ago
    What if you unsave 2 items and save 1. Is then the list remade?
    - Deimorz 8y ago
      No, the list is never remade. The new item just gets inserted into the list, exactly the same as if it had never reached the limit in the first place.

bluetidepro 8y ago

A good work around tip is to set up an https://ifttt.com/ https://ifttt.com/ to trigger when you save to offload your saves to somewhere else. I save all my reddit saves to Evernote, personally. It can help with this known issue!