why do i always just assume ill remember weird URL tricks instead of actually properly writing them down?
i mean bc usually i do but the suffix for seeing a profiles oldest posts has escaped me 😔
figured it out! ?min_id=0 works
i couldn’t get max to accept nonreal ids which is why id assumed this no longer worked but apparently for min its fine lmao
…..and it doesn’t work for mastodon 4+ because profiles have fucking infinite scroll now
so if you want to go look at my old posts feel free i guess but it wont work for a decent chunk of people following me
pagination skips do still work on tumblr blogs w/infinite scroll enabled incidentally so congrats, we’re officially doing worse than tumblr on this lol
@Satsuma there is a way to say “start after this post id”
@aescling oh i bet i could just set that to zero
@aescling hmmm nope
@Satsuma i’m being imprecise; it’s a post id ceiling
@Satsuma woah. I don't think I even knew about this magic, whatever it was.
@maloki if you know a specific post id, you can still see stuff that was posted around the same time by adding ?max_id= to your public profile URL but you do seem to need a valid post id to use
from what i can tell, 2.0 was when id’s switched from being sequential to snowflake, hence the speculation that, if thats the technique im remembering, it would have stopped being possible around then
@Satsuma oh yeah, fair makes sense.
@Satsuma oh I'm very sad about this being the case for 4.x :(
I've been using the min_id=0 thing to hand-cull my own old posts b/c I don't trust the system to do it for me and it's fun!
@Satsuma THERE'S A FLOOR PARAM???
@aescling FLOORS FOR THE FLOOR GOD
@Satsuma WORKS FOR THE WORKS GOD
….am i remembering something that stopped being possible in fucking 2.0????