diff --git a/themes/hugo-mastodon-comments/static/comments/getcomments.php b/themes/hugo-mastodon-comments/static/comments/getcomments.php
index ff4036f..3a1b563 100644
--- a/themes/hugo-mastodon-comments/static/comments/getcomments.php
+++ b/themes/hugo-mastodon-comments/static/comments/getcomments.php
@@ -28,8 +28,10 @@ function debug($data) {
 /* CACHE FUNCTIONS */
 /* write data to file */
 function write_db($db, $data) {
+  $file['toots'] = $data;
+  $file['timestamp'] = time();
   // encode and write file
-  $encoded = json_encode($data, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
+  $encoded = json_encode($file, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT);
   file_put_contents($db, $encoded, LOCK_EX);
 }
 /* access data from file */
@@ -40,7 +42,7 @@ function read_db($db, &$data) {
     write_db($db, array());
   }
   $file = file_get_contents($db, true);
-  $data = json_decode($file, true);
+  $data = json_decode($file, true)['toots'];
 }
 
 /* TOOT FUNCTIONS */
@@ -142,7 +144,7 @@ while ($uptodate === false) {
   if ($min_id_new === $min_id) {
     // min_id is the latest, let's write the new DB and end this loop
     $uptodate = true;
-    debug("Rewrite cache DB.");
+    debug("Toots up-to-date. Rewrite cache DB.");
     write_db($dbt, $toots);
   } else {
     // next round looks for toots newer than the newly found ID
@@ -158,7 +160,6 @@ $result = ['comments' => [], 'stats' => ['reblogs' => 0, 'favs' => 0, 'replies'
 $id = array_keys(array_column($toots, 'url'), strtolower($search));
 if (empty($id)) {
   debug("Blog URL \"$search\" has not been found");
-  die();
 } else {
   // if multiple exist, take the oldest one (highest array position)
   $id = $toots[end($id)]['id'];