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It looks like that old issue with automatically pinging pingomatic has popped up again.

Posted by MacManX on 26 June 2005 @ 10am

On second thought, it looks like Pingomatic is down again.

Posted by MacManX on 26 June 2005 @ 10am

For now, just ping this list rather than pingomatic:

http://elliottback.com/wp/archives/2004/11/21/a-list-of-rpc-and-rpc2-to-ping/

Posted by MacManX on 26 June 2005 @ 10am

It’s not me, I think, but rather other people’s links in my blogroll not showing as updated. I don’t know, I’m confused.

Posted by Bryan on 27 June 2005 @ 9am

You’re right, sorry for not explaining. WP’s link update function (which I assume you’re using for your blogroll) works off of pingomatic. As soon as a blog pings pingomatic, your blog sees it and bumps the link up to the top of the list. Without pingomatic, it ceases to function. So, you are correct, the problem is technically not on your end. The problem is pingomatic’s fault (for being offline), WordPress’ fault (for looking only to pingomatic for link updates), and technically the other blog authors’ faults (for attempting to ping only pingomatic).

Posted by MacManX on 27 June 2005 @ 1pm

Okay, that makes sense now. I’ll just make the blogroll on the front page randomized for now, until Ping-O-Matic comes back. Thanks James.

Posted by Bryan on 27 June 2005 @ 2pm