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晓闻心雨 — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 09:18:20 +0000

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WordPress Switches to Hourly Pinging, Tells No One | OpenABlog — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:56:27 +0000

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By: Thord Daniel Hedengren

Thord Daniel Hedengren — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 12:30:03 +0000

I have updated the criticism in the post. It wasn’t my intention to point to the RSS feeds and how they are updated, but rather the fact that services that rely on pinging will be delayed and hence syndication of the content (which usually is a link back, as in widgets displaying sites discussing a particular topic) will also be unnecessarily delayed. Bolstad goes into detail on some of these services in his post so I’ll not delve deeper on that.

As for alarmist titles etc., that’s just nonsense. It wasn’t in the release notes of 2.8, hence no one was told in the wider sense. I can see why this happens, but it doesn’t make it less of an issue. The discussion here and elsewhere just proves that open source works, with the fix (link added to the post) being approved and all. So there you go, another feather in the open source hat! :)

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By: borntobeaseos Wordpress 2.8 pingt nur noch stündlich - Suchmaschinenoptimierung - borntobeaseo.de

Thu, 23 Jul 2009 11:15:21 +0000

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By: StevieB’s Shared Items – July 22, 2009 at Lost in Cyberspace

StevieB’s Shared Items – July 22, 2009 at Lost in Cyberspace — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:02:49 +0000

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By: Aaron D. Campbell

Aaron D. Campbell — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:53:27 +0000

Even without the fix, the article is simply inaccurate. While there could be some concerns about the change in ping logic, as others have pointed out your RSS feeds would be unaffected (both the built in feeds as well as FeedBurner feeds).

The only thing affected would be that some 3rd party services (such as technorati) would not be notified of an update to your blog *if* they had already been notified of another change in the last hour. That’s it. Nothing earth shattering, that’s for sure.

By: Tycoon Blogger

Tycoon Blogger — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:19:16 +0000

This is interesting and the first time I am learning about this. To me it does not seem like that big of a deal..Am I missing something?

By: Devin Reams

Devin Reams — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 21:36:38 +0000

The "Tells No One" in the title is a tad alarmist. There are thousands of commits and changes for every release, they can't all be explicitly noted in a more efficient manner (other than the trac reports). As Aaron pointed out, there's already a fix in place. How did I know? I was immediately "told" by @wpdevel.

By: coldbrew

coldbrew — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:16:38 +0000

Don’t forget one can use FeedBurner + the recently released PubSubHubBub functionality. Searching for this will bring you the required knowledge. Automattic isn’t in the syndication business and I don’t think they should be. To point out the obvious, this code is GPL’d; please get a grip ;)

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:06:59 +0000

Fixed

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By: Ben Killian

Ben Killian — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:49:04 +0000

You are all douches. Go back to your basements, geeks!

By: TanNg

TanNg — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:42:46 +0000

@Thord Daniel Hedengren
As Denis de Bernardy suggested “Go right ahead and add the note yourself if you think it’s so important” – did you do that?

By: TanNg

TanNg — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:31:51 +0000

OpenSource mean participation. You get it free, if you want it to change contribute to it, not crying about it. Denis de Bernardy told you the way you contribute better and you chose to critize not contribute .

By: Aaron Brazell

Aaron Brazell — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:29:34 +0000

Echoing Lloyd. Feeds are generated by the Loop.

If you’re looking to FeedBurner, then you should say so. As it is, FeedBurner checks feeds (or did) every 15 mins. If a feed is different (and it will be because the Loop generates a new feed when accessed) then Feedburner will update. If the feed isn’t changed, then it gets a HTTP 304 code Not Modified.

Regardless, WordPress is not at fault for stale feeds and I think you should update this post to reflect that.

By: Lloyd Budd

Lloyd Budd — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:29:56 +0000

Though it does seem to be an interesting problem your “So why is this a bad thing?” would all seem to be factually incorrect. Feeds in WordPress are not dependent on the ping service.

I would be very surprised if any of the syndication services are dependent on ping to update, though it would likely effect their timeliness (“you’ve lost that real time feeling, now it’s gone, gone, gone”) as you and Christian describe well.

“It is also a reminder of the fact that developers can change behavior at any time, and that it might in fact effect your site, or even break it.” basically is saying “software has bugs” ;-)

PS. the italics in the comment box makes it a little hard to read what I’m writing.

By: WordPress 2.8 pingt nur noch stündlich - schlecht! - Von Karl-Heinz Wenzlaff

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