From 81b244f91ed1706c9a645ae8eb45254b633e031b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael <heluecht@pirati.ca>
Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2022 06:59:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Option to activate or deactivate the background fetching

---
 src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Processor.php | 2 +-
 static/defaults.config.php             | 8 ++++++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Processor.php b/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Processor.php
index 6959755a11..653649aa2d 100644
--- a/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Processor.php
+++ b/src/Protocol/ActivityPub/Processor.php
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ class Processor
 				}
 			}
 
-			if ($fetch_by_worker) {
+			if ($fetch_by_worker && DI::config()->get('system', 'fetch_by_worker')) {
 				Logger::notice('Fetching is done by worker.', ['parent' => $activity['reply-to-id'], 'recursion-depth' => $recursion_depth]);
 				$activity['recursion-depth'] = 0;
 				if (!Fetch::hasWorker($activity['reply-to-id'])) {
diff --git a/static/defaults.config.php b/static/defaults.config.php
index 01cd24f04b..ee15ce826d 100644
--- a/static/defaults.config.php
+++ b/static/defaults.config.php
@@ -282,6 +282,10 @@ return [
 		// Priority for the expirary notification 
 		'expire-notify-priority' => PRIORITY_LOW,
 
+		// fetch_by_worker (Boolean)
+		// Fetch missing posts via a background process
+		'fetch_by_worker' => false,
+
 		// free_crawls (Integer)
 		// Number of "free" searches when system => permit_crawling is enabled.
 		'free_crawls' => 10,
@@ -421,8 +425,8 @@ return [
 		'max_processes_frontend' => 20,
 
 		// max_recursion_depth (Integer)
-		// Maximum recursion depth when fetching posts until the job is delegated to a worker task.
-		'max_recursion_depth' => 10,
+		// Maximum recursion depth when fetching posts until the job is delegated to a worker task or finished.
+		'max_recursion_depth' => 50,
 
 		// maximagesize (Integer)
 		// Maximum size in bytes of an uploaded photo.