Textpattern CMS

#1 2007-12-23 08:34:55

iblastoff

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ping textpattern.com?

what exactly is the point of this? the rpc help isn’t very descriptive “This will send a ping to textpattern.com whenever you publish a new article.”

i understand what sending a ping is but what benefit could be had from pinging textpattern.com?

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#2 2007-12-23 09:58:45

Dragondz

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From: Algérie

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Re: ping textpattern.com?

maybe track the activity of a website? but why? I really dont know! and I am not sur that the devs know!

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#3 2007-12-23 10:00:10

colak

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Re: ping textpattern.com?

maybe to keep stats of txp versions/installs?

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#4 2007-12-23 10:15:26

thebombsite

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Re: ping textpattern.com?

I’m pretty sure this option has been available since I started using TXP back in the gamma days. I believe WordPress did something similar. Back then I think it was a way of roughly determining how many TXP sites were out there which is mostly why WP did it. I don’t think it would be an accurate enough method these days but why it has never been removed I have no idea. Maybe they get something else out of it.

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#5 2007-12-23 13:33:20

mapu

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From: Munich, Germany

Registered: 2004-03-16

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Re: ping textpattern.com?

With this the Team TXP could do a “recently updated TXP sites” page on txp.com.

#6 2007-12-23 14:42:20

hcgtv

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From: Key Largo, Florida

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Re: ping textpattern.com?

thebombsite wrote:

Back then I think it was a way of roughly determining how many TXP sites were out there which is mostly why WP did it.

Wouldn’t sites updating their language files give the devs a pretty good idea as to how many TxP installs are out there?

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#7 2007-12-23 21:21:20

FireFusion

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Registered: 2005-05-10

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Re: ping textpattern.com?

I think this option should come disabled by default if a feature is going to be made of it, as not everyone will want to be on the list.