How do you nest a thread without renumbering it

questionsystems · 11 points · 7 comments

Comments have a parent. When one is removed, its replies have to keep their depth or the conversation stops making sense.

Every scheme I have tried either renumbers on delete or leaves orphans. What do people actually do here?

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2026-10-14
Do you have a link for the second claim? I want to read the original.
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2026-10-14
Two years ago I would have argued. Having since maintained one of these, I would not.
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2026-10-14
The part people skip is the last paragraph, which is the whole argument.
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2026-10-14
Counterexample: on a read-heavy workload we measured the opposite. Happy to write it up if useful.
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2026-10-14
Reading this made me go and check ours, and ours was wrong. So: thank you, and also, ugh.
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2026-10-14
What did you use to measure it?
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2026-10-14
A trace, not a profiler. The profiler said the function was fast, which it was.
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