Original Submission Hi,
In their current implementation, TV5 comments don't scale up beyond a few dozens comments.
For instance, a 200-comment list takes 10s of server-side latency, and less than 2s for transmission (all in a quick burst at the end) and client-side processing.
As I assume you guys at Enalean are SQL query optimization experts, I guess there is not much to gain from this angle.
Now maybe there's another option, which is in line with my earlier remarks about the less-than-obvious expand/collapse tool:
What about expand-on-demand ?
The idea is to serve in the main page, not the comments with their full bodies as they are today, but just headers (Author + Date). Each header then displays an Expand link that will go back to the server to fetch the individual comment body. An "Expand All" button can also be imagined, giving the current behavior.
Reactions ?
Thanks in advance,
-Alex