So I whipped up a quick shell script to demonstrate what I mean by the increase in feed size on average as well as the expected increase in storage and retrieval requirements.

$ ./compare.sh
Original file size: 28145 bytes
Modified file size: 70672 bytes
Percentage increase in file size: 151.10%
...

Comparing a few feeds:

• @xuu would see an increase of ~20%
  
• @falsifian@www.falsifian.org would see an increase of ~8%
  
• @bender@twtxt.net would see an increase of ~20%
  
• @lyse@lyse.isobeef.org would see an increase of ~15%
  
• @aelaraji@aelaraji.com would see an increase of ~13%
  
• @sorenpeter@darch.dk would see an increase of ~8%
  
• @movq@www.uninformativ.de would see an increase of ~9%
  

Just from a scalability standpoint along I’m not seeing a switch to location-based Twt ids to support threading a good idea here. This is what I meant when I said to @david@collantes.us in a recent call that we open up a new can of worms (or new set of problems) by drastically changing the approach, rather than incrementally improving the existing approach we have today (_which has served us well for the past 4 years already_0.

@prologic@twtxt.net thanks. I hate it. Might as well use UUID