Yes, I imagine it's probably a question of server load -- they kept mentioning that as an issue in the Tag Wrangling pages. Having a vast volume of kudos to deal with is probably a side effect of making it trivially easy to click a 'like' button rather than having a story added permanently to a list of favourites, I think, although fanfiction.net started cropping people's displayed favourites list down to a couple of hundred recently, probably for similar motives (although they still store them -- it's just that the 'desktop' mode for some reason doesn't provide the paging and filtering options available in the 'mobile' mode and simply dumps the whole lot in one list onto a single page that takes forever to render. One of the various reasons why I used to use the mobile site for preference on a desktop browser.)
I'd automatically jumped to the conclusion that private bookmarks were for the stories that one might find embarrassing to display a taste for in public ;-p
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Date: 2021-01-22 09:34 pm (UTC)Having a vast volume of kudos to deal with is probably a side effect of making it trivially easy to click a 'like' button rather than having a story added permanently to a list of favourites, I think, although fanfiction.net started cropping people's displayed favourites list down to a couple of hundred recently, probably for similar motives (although they still store them -- it's just that the 'desktop' mode for some reason doesn't provide the paging and filtering options available in the 'mobile' mode and simply dumps the whole lot in one list onto a single page that takes forever to render. One of the various reasons why I used to use the mobile site for preference on a desktop browser.)
I'd automatically jumped to the conclusion that private bookmarks were for the stories that one might find embarrassing to display a taste for in public ;-p