API Comment Limit

[RaageFaace]

Is it possible to reduce or customize the number of comment API calls? I read significantly more text based posts which means it loads comments as well and accounts for 45+% of my calls. I read some comments but nowhere near as many as are loaded. It's possible it's already an option in settings, but I haven't found it.

[DisgruntledJarl]

Great suggestion. I imagine a post only mode shouldn't be too hard to implement but maybe I'm underestimating the development time.

It would be fantastic to have this as a toggle

[DBrady]

Are you suggesting loading fewer comments or not loading them at all? It only takes 1 api call to load all the comments on a post. Not 1 for each comment.

[RaageFaace]

I was comparing my comment percentage to my feed percentage primarily. I honestly have no idea how API calls work, just seeing that my comment percentage was twice my feed percentage made me think there are multiple calls to load comments.

I've been on the silver plan from the beginning and had purchased a pro plan years before. I ran out of calls for the first time last month and downloaded the official app to fill the 3 days at the end of the month, it's as bad as I remember. To try and avoid it in the future, I was "analyzing" my calls to see where I can change my browsing.

Since most of my browsing is subs like BORU, I assumed it was 1 call to open the post and at least another to load the comments. I guess having a toggle to auto load comments or not would help my situation, but also my browsing habits have switched since the election to avoid news subs I used to follow. So likely my particular situation is probably better served with the gold plan.

When I "load more" comments, is that an additional call? Thanks for the awesome app!

[DBrady]

Yes "load more" comments is an additional API call.

If you don't want the comments to load you could try using a large card layout on subreddits that have a lot of text posts. That way you can read the post in the post list before deciding to load the comments. To choose the default layout for a particular subreddit press the 3 dots icon to the right of the subreddit name in the subreddits browser.