Let me tell you something, there is nothing more prone to getting me anxious than noticing or being notified of an error on a CommentLuv release when I’m at work and it’s busy. NOTHING!
Shear panic sets in,
- “what about all the people who just downloaded it?”
- “oh dear, I have to send out ANOTHER email to the members, how many sweary replies will I get from people that can’t find the unsubscribe link that’s just below the bit that says “unsubscribe here”?”
- “what new language will I have to learn to overcome this problem?”
Instant research, google refusing to display. FTP details lost again. customers constantly ringing in orders.
take a moment. feel acid build in belly.
read the error and use Yahoo (pah!) to search for an answer.
Minutes later, realize that it’s a Wordpress bug… “phew!, not my code!” .. moments later … “oh shit, how will I fix this then?” .. hours of messing up peoples change and forgetting to save an order while thinking about all the above..
.. minutes after rushing the close-up at work … “I’ll just rewrite the htmlspecialchars_decode function and use that instead” ..
head.scratches
expletives.shouted
Solution tested on php4 blog. Works. Send out a couple to those who are experiencing the error.
wait with baited breath for them to reply that it works before I can update the repository.
they do! in email and on twitter. good on ya @mitch_m!
CommentLuv v2.7.61 gets uploaded to the repository.
wait with trembling trembles to see if the jamungous amount of people that have to update again will do it and not get in a fuss and disable it instead.
oh gosh. writing software for free is fun! 
20.06.09 10:30 am
thanks Andy! now I use CommentLuv v2.7.61 (dance)
#1Andy MSE´s last blog ..Widgeting pada Wordpress 2.8
20.06.09 8:09 pm
This is why I am waiting to update. I will still wait another two weeks or so. Having said that, I really like the new version I have seen it on dozens of blogs already and I think it way cool.
It’s sad that people bitch some much about free stuff. I really appreciate all of your efforts Andy.
Keep up the good work mate!
#2Boris@ Niche SEO´s last blog ..Welcome To Day 101 Of The 109 Day Link Building Explosion.
21.06.09 1:24 pm
Twitter: commentluv
Andy: thanks for letting me know. great to see you still luv the luv!
Boris: thanks for your kind words! it would be easier if I had a team of programmers and marketers and content writers. but, it’s little ol’ me!
waiting a couple of weeks before upgrading is usually a good idea unless it’s a v.important update.
thanks for visiting FiddyP on the new server, running as a sub blog on ComLuv.com and mapped to a domain name
#3Andy Bailey´s last blog ..New Plugin Added – Auto-close comments
22.06.09 1:14 am
Andy! You are doing so much of hard work with CommentLuv.
I have just installed CommentLuv on one of my blog and that is working fine, even visitors have increased. Now my blog is being content rich because more people are leaving their comments on my posts.
Thanks a lot for hard work and great efforts.
#422.06.09 7:57 am
Twitter: commentluv
#5thanks! I’m glad it’s working for you
27.06.09 12:22 am
Hmmm, thought it seemed familiar
#6I have a comment luv blog which is
http://josotherblog.comluv.com
hope you have that bug sorted out and I don’t mean swine flu.
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30.06.09 12:58 pm
I have a comment luv installed at http://www.ipodspeakerreview.com . Perhaps, we can use it to spread some link love to other webmasters.
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