Looking for opinions again, this time on push vs. pull

[jducoeur]

I've just posted another topic on and about CommYou; check it out in CommYou. Again, I'm interested in hearing from folks about this, because I may be over-thinking things here. Opinions welcomed and encouraged, either there or here...

Comments

[mindways]

Got an exception popup, and an unending "Fetching conversation..." text:

app.commyou.com:

Something went wrong:
org.hibernate.TransactionException
org.hibernate.TransactionException: JDBC rollback failed
  at org.hibernate.transaction.JDBCTransaction.rollback(JDBCTransaction.java:170)
  at com.commyou.Core.HibernateManager.doQuery(HibernateManager.java:130)
  at com.commyou.Servlet.ConversationApi.GetSingleConversation(ConversationApi.java:609)

[clip a Whole Lot More Stack Trace]

I expect you've got some sort of logging going and/or can reproduce it; if not, let me know and I can send you a screencapture of the whole dialog.

Occurs under Opera 8, IE 6, and Firefox 1.5.

[alienor.livejournal.com]

Ditto Firefox 2.0.0.15

But I should note that for some reason Firefox at work can't render Facebook (or CNN or Linens N Things or several other sites) properly at all. At home I have no problem.

[mindways]

Mmm, yes - my workplace does some (weirdly erratic) content blocking, which has resulted in problems in the past for sites which try to pull down dynamic content from other (blocked) sites in various ways...it might be that.

[jducoeur]

Crap -- crashed, and crashed hard. First time that's happened in quite a while. Hmm...

[cellio]

I have wanted that third tier on LJ for a while. I can track the conversations I want to follow, and I can scan back on my friends page to see if there are new comments on posts I was more casually interested in, but the latter becomes a hassle if there are too many posts where I don't care. Filters are per-user, not per-post, so they only help to the extent that interesting threads correspond to interesting posters. If I could mark an entry as "done with this" for purposes of the friends page, while still having it available via the journal (or an "everything" view) if I really wanted it, I would be less likely to miss interesting comments on posts from yesterday (which is forever in LJ time, it seems).

[jducoeur]

If I could mark an entry as "done with this" for purposes of the friends page, while still having it available via the journal (or an "everything" view) if I really wanted it

Approximately, anyway. The CommYou Summary View doesn't *quite* map to the LJ Friends page, although they're quite similar in practice. And the core notion of "ignore" is exactly "Don't keep notifying me; I'll go back and look manually if I care later"...