Scroll-down approach unrealiable for huge amounts of activities

[jgoedde]

Hey ho! The original script developer implemented a scroll-down approach, meaning that scrolling to the bottom of the list causes every single item to load. This behaviour caused me a big problem, since I wanted to delete all my comment likes and dislikes, which were so numerous (since 2018) that, once they had all loaded, my browser simply ran out of memory. The script was unable to execute.

My idea for this script would be to somehow implement a top-bottom deletion approach, without pre-fetching every single activity. At least make that an option to the user.

[fonic]

I understand how this might be an issue for huge amounts of comments.

The script was specifically designed to first determine the number of comments by repeatedly scrolling down, in order to present the user with a choice regarding how many comments to delete.

One easy fix I can think of, without changing the nature of the script to much, would be to limit the number of scroll attempts, e.g. only scroll down 10 times and then continue with deletion.

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@Picklejarly Sorry, deleted your comment by accident, meant to delete my own previous comment instead of yours.