Why only 10 reference fields?

[mikeyevin]

This thread is spiraling away from the original topic towards an unproductive back-and-forth about whether help was or wasn’t provided. From what I can tell, it looks like the original question (Why only 10 reference fields?) was answered by both @memetican and @webdev:

@memetican

Most likely the internal costs of the queries and processing.
I can’t answer that on behalf of Webflow, and I don’t know the internal engineering well enough to even make an educated guess.

However there are always workarounds.

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Note that just like regular CMS structures, you’ll hit limits with specific scenarios such as nested lists, so you may need some JS to organize your UI the way you want.

@webdev

Webflow limits joins because they are expensive compute operations or have hit a hard limit on the stack they built on. Mongo is not a relational database.

@marklovin - Since you have a follow-up about how setting up a structure to get around the 10 reference field limitation, I’ve broken one of your initial replies into a separate thread with a title that will hopefully get some attention from other folks in the community who may be able to give more insight.