Disable `timeline_request_replies()` temporarily.

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index f52a976..7b105ae 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 
 ## Open
 
+Fix `timeline_request_replies()` issues (more info there).
+
 Fix premature purge of actor by hardlinking the actor object inside the user `following/` subfolder.
 
 Replace weird, vestigial 'touch-by-append-spaces' in actor_get() with a more proper call to `utimes()`.
diff --git a/activitypub.c b/activitypub.c
index 92914a2..d7d4d79 100644
--- a/activitypub.c
+++ b/activitypub.c
@@ -200,6 +200,15 @@ void timeline_request_replies(snac *user, const char *id)
 /* requests all replies of a message */
 /* FIXME: experimental -- needs more testing */
 {
+    /* FIXME: TEMPORARILY DISABLED */
+    /* Reason: I've found that many of the posts in the 'replies' Collection
+       do not have an inReplyTo field (why??? aren't they 'replies'???).
+       For this reason, these requested objects are not stored as children
+       of the original post and they are shown as out-of-context, top level posts.
+       This is disabled until I find an elegant way of providing a parent
+       for these 'stray' children. */
+    return;
+
     xs *msg = NULL;
 
     if (!valid_status(object_get(id, &msg)))