Apply Following settings to Lists

[gaearon]

Currently Lists display every single reply from every user on the list. This makes them great for a narrow use case (watching every single reply from a small group of people) but difficult to use for a broad use case (keeping up with a scene).

This change applies the current Following feed settings and heuristics to Lists. This means you'll still see replies in Lists, but only when you have some context on that reply (i.e. you follow the parent, the grandparent, or the root). As a result, Lists where you follow a lot of people will appear chattier while Lists where you follow few people will mostly show top-level posts.

This also aligns Lists with the behavior of Posts tab in Starter Packs (which already worked this way).

Before

Every single reply was displayed, so whenever someone went on a reply spree, it drowned out other people on the list. Many faces appearing in the list weren't actually a part of the list.

before.mov

before2.mov

After

I don't follow almost anyone on this list so I mostly see top-level posts:

after2.mov

On this list, I follow some people so I'm starting to see more conversations within it:

after.mov

[gaearon]

I wonder if a better behavior would be to show conversations when they're between people in the list. But we don't have a great way to do that right now anyway.

[github-actions]

Old size	New size	Diff
7.13 MB	7.13 MB	-13 B (-0.00%)

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[estrattonbailey]

+1, good thought on ideal behavior too