Executive summary: LineBuzz now works on blogs that don't have each entry wrapped in a DIV tag (like Xanga.com). It's also a lot faster. You can also edit your blog entries and add updates and you won't lose your comments as long as you don't change paragraphs that have received a comment.
Nothing beats real world testing. Thanks to all our friends who've taken a gamble on us!
*the longer version*
When LineBuzz was launched yesterday it required that all blog entries be inside a div. If any text (even a single character) in a blog entry changed, all comments for that entry were lost. A friend has a blog that has all blog entries on the home page inside a single div and each individual entry doesn't have it's own div. So when she installed LineBuzz it didn't work at all because the text inside the massive div was constantly changing.
I spent the last 6 hours working on a fix and nailed it bigtime. As of right now we consider anything inside a DIV, P, H1, H2 or H3 to be a block of text. So we're looking at paragraphs, not blog entries. I didn't do this originally because of performance issues. It would have taken the browser over 3 seconds to insert comments into a page when it loaded. It was also pretty heavy on our database. But I made both client and server code a lot faster, so even a 300K page with a ton of DIVS, P's etc. will now load in under 0.6 seconds. And I've benchmarked the database with a TON of data and it's still fast.
So we're better, faster cheaper and still improving!
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