Isn’t that the truth. What a waste, to take the opportunity to touch someone’s day and use it to make that day worse. In the end it does as much harm to the fool who doesn’t tread lightly as to the person they bring harm to, but they’ll never know what they missed.

Thanks for saying it that way.

Regards,

Kelly

Jenny’s last blog post…Don’t Laugh At…

That search string – too funny…

It must be the water, or more precisely, the Folgers gotta blame the Factory somehow!

Brett Legree’s last blog post…viking fridays – naked, i was a nobody.

That’s the first South Park bit I’ve willingly watched. Very, very funny.

The un-Luvved feeling gets you down, doesn’t it? Andy needs a new “therapy” section on his blog for those moments, LOL.

LOL again at the search. I was glad to see I was in the #1 spot. Tight competition and all.

I blame the water up there. Surely the genetics of Canadians can’t be to blame.

Okay, that’s as much good cheer as I can use up in a day. Must go work on a Saturday, ick. No more cheer for me.

Right after I check out that link…

Later,

Kelly

Yes, I’ll take my part of the blame, but except for two other guys, the rest of Canada had very little to do with it… lol

~Graham

You can hear the tune — and the original lyrics I mangled for my own selfish motives — here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi4CRZQEcGg&feature=related

BTW, earlier you asked what kind of searches would land people to this post. I found one this morning. Try Googling:

jackson square thunder bay tally-ho brett ruffages

…and be prepared for the deluge.

~Graham

And please don’t get me wrong. I would be the last person to gripe about a free app/service. I was sold on CommentLuv before I even installed it on my blog, and I think it is one of the best WP apps out there. Yes, I do feel un-Luved when it doesn’t pick up my feed, but like anything, the kinks get worked out eventually. Well worth the wait — thanks for such a great app!

~Graham

Thanks, guy. I knew you’d come through. Looking forward to the new version and of course I will let folks know how it goes here!

He he, it pays to be a plugin’s number one fangirl from before the author’s completely famous.

Regards,

Kelly

If your last blog post appears on some blogs but not on others then it is more than likely that it’s the ping distance between the two servers that is causing the problem. Because commentluv does all the to-ing and fro-ing after the comment has been submitted it has to have a low timeout or else the comment might take too long to process, especially as most regular blogs are hosted on shared hosting. You would be surprised by how many people share your server if you’re on a shared hosting package (which is most packages under 50$ per month)

Another reason and it’s partly my faul is that the plugin sends the url to my server and then that contacts the url, reads it, gets the feed address, reads the feed, extracts the last post and sends it back to the hosting blog which then in turn, puts it on the end of the comment and saves it to the database.

all this happens between clicking submit and the comment being saved in the host blog database, a process which should normally fit within 3-5 seconds. I tried to put all types of fancy things in to speed up the process, namely trying default feed locations for the blog so my server doesn’t have to read the page and can go straight to the feed but if it couldn’t find it in the first place it looked, it would double the execution time.

A solution was to use a caching system and I switched it on for a while but my server gets over 100,000 requests for last blog posts every day, even more now! and everyone of them would have meant saving an entire feed for each different blog url that commented. A feed of 10 items can sometimes be as much as 400kb (x100,000 = 400MB of space used up each day)

I have been working very hard on solutions to the normal gripes with it and I’m happy to say that I have something working and working well. Now, with the commentluv.com site, you can register your url and once verified, you can specify the feed address of your site (or autofind it) and cache age. When you comment on blogs using the latest version (it’s labelled beta release 11), my server will be able to contact your feed directly and if you comment within your cache age time, it will use the one stored instead. Doing this has reduced the time from 3-5 seconds to literally half a second.

If your site is offline or there is a network interruption between my server and yours, it will send back the last feed it found.

Even better, it does it while you type your comment so as long as you have javscript enabled on your browser (97% of the people who visit my site do) then you wont even notice the process. You’ll even see if it has found your last blog post or not before you press submit and if you’re verified, you get to choose between the last 10 posts instead of the usual 1

Soon I will add some code to allow verified users to increase their timeout for the fetch routine and even add something so you can specify the link to be passed back even if it’s on another site.

The new version will be released to the codex soon (it should work right out of the box on this blog Kelly). Thanks for listening and thanks for sharing the luv

Andy Bailey

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