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...

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[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.

[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).