I too had issues with socket.io but have found engine.io to be quite pleasant. 
Did you try engine.io and come to similar frustrations?

On Jul 8, 2013, at 6:01AM, Oleg Slobodskoi <oleg...@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hello there :)
> 
> I have recently started a new project after lots of frustration with 
> socketio. Simpleio is not a full replacement of all the features of socketio, 
> but its actually everything one might need to create chatty like messaging on 
> any hosting using a long polling which works everywhere. Most important 
> design goals are:
> support for router/balancer without sticky sessions (f.e. Heroku)
> optimized for horizontal scaling
> reliable message delivery (built-in delivery confirmation)
> multiplexing on the server and client
> lightweight client (appr. 2.5 kb minified and gzipped)
> simple client spec, which can be implemented easily in any language
> Native clients for anroid and ios are will be usable in some weeks.
> 
> Best,
> Oleg
> 
> http://github.com/kof/simpleio
> 
> 
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