This is an interesting read. I came back to this after the "heat" around livejournal has recently faced when changing their comments page. I am guessing that this is what livejournal mean when they state that, our new S1 comment system was completely rewritten from scratch. The comment system has never been updated on this scale before. In the past, code was being piled upon old code, which turned out to be messy and unstable. A complete rewrite means an updated, cleaner and faster system - which is a good thing for everyone. The default comments pages are the first step in an update to our overall site design, which is meant to improve performance and user experience.
Anyway I remember seeing this post on Technical Debt before and thought it tied in quite well. I thought this was an interesting read when I first saw it, but didn't comment at the time. So belatedly, thanks for writing this!
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I came back to this after the "heat" around livejournal has recently faced when changing their comments page. I am guessing that this is what livejournal mean when they state that, our new S1 comment system was completely rewritten from scratch. The comment system has never been updated on this scale before. In the past, code was being piled upon old code, which turned out to be messy and unstable. A complete rewrite means an updated, cleaner and faster system - which is a good thing for everyone. The default comments pages are the first step in an update to our overall site design, which is meant to improve performance and user experience.
Anyway I remember seeing this post on Technical Debt before and thought it tied in quite well. I thought this was an interesting read when I first saw it, but didn't comment at the time. So belatedly, thanks for writing this!