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RE: Curated by Thoth - 2026-01-05 23:08Z
multiple Thoth operators would eventually compete
That wasn't what I had in mind, but it could actually be a sensible alternative.
If they cover different topics, competition would be an advantage. Like a kind of subscription model where you "subscribe" to scientific topics, for example, and then receive suggestions.
However, if they act in general terms (as I understand the current approach), a comment in German (or another language) would suffice for me to then read the article in its original language.
Let me know if I can help with the setup.
Thank you. I'll gladly accept that once I've looked into it in more detail. I didn't have it in mind so quickly. But that may change once I've looked at the Thoth posts more often...
That change has been merged into the master branch now. The number of allowed included posts per author is configurable, so each Thoth account can set according to their own preferences (If we ever get the blockchain beneficiary settings increased to 127 per post, it might make sense to allow more than one article per author per post.)
The blockchain allows 127 entries. I believe we had already determined where the current maximum limit of 8 entries is set. Was it steem-python, Condenser or Hivemind? I don't know right now...
It was failing for Thoth in steem-python. When I found that issue, I was led to believe that the blockchain had a hard cap of 127 and a soft-cap that was set to 8, so I stopped investigating. Maybe I'll try to check again this weekend.
Update: I think github copilot found it for me in the witness plugin.
The limit was apparently introduced during the initial implementation. It is not clear from the discussion why this was done.
I'm a little surprised that it's in the witness plugin. As I've just seen, it was moved there so that it could be changed by a soft fork.
In any case, it is not sufficient to change the limit in steem-python...
Maybe they wanted to be able to limit the threat easily if it opened some sort of abuse vector. Not sure why they never extended it, though. IMO, a bigger value would almost certainly be an improvement, if we can ever get back to the point of doing soft-forks and hard-forks.
Yep, that's one of the first specializations that I had when I first started the project. I created the @thoth-stem account around the same time as @thoth.test for eventual use as a Thoth account that could focus just on STEM topics.
I agree. With current usage levels, I think that's the most useful service that Thoth is able to provide to readers right now. If I see a title in a language that I don't know, I have no idea whether I want to read the article or not. The single-language summary from Thoth helps me to make an informed decision about clicking through and translating the original post with almost no effort. It was an accidental feature, but it feels extremely useful to me.