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#1 2015-06-28 11:50:38

gaekwad
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Kill off 'Ping textpattern.com'

There’s an option, enabled by default in 4.5.7, to ping textpattern.com (Admin -> Preferences -> Advanced).

In the ~10 years I’ve been using Textpattern, I’ve never seen any reports, statistics or other info that relate to these pings.

As an aside, there is no obvious privacy policy on textpattern.com indicating what (if anything) is done with this gathered information.

To that end, I propose removing ping RPC functionality from 4.6. Remove the function, and that removes the need to write a legally-binding privacy policy.

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#2 2015-06-28 13:26:53

Bloke
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Re: Kill off 'Ping textpattern.com'

I’m fine with killing it off.


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#3 2015-06-28 14:06:14

michaelkpate
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Re: Kill off 'Ping textpattern.com'

Like RSD this was one of those things that was really in vogue once upon a time – Note the Recently Updated Blogs on the sidebar – that nobody cares about anymore.

+1 for removing it

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#4 2015-06-28 16:03:39

gaekwad
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Re: Kill off 'Ping textpattern.com'

OK, I had a first pass at removing the references here – I think I caught everything, extra pairs of eyes welcome. If all looks OK code-wise, I’ll sit on it a for a few days to see what the feedback is before I raise the PR.

Edit: please note, if the PR is raised and accepted, the link above won’t work as I will have deleted my fork – if that is the case, I will update the link to point to the PR instead. If I remember. Ahem.

Last edited by gaekwad (2015-06-28 16:06:39)

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#5 2015-06-28 16:35:03

Bloke
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Re: Kill off 'Ping textpattern.com'

gaekwad wrote #292206:

OK, I had a first pass at removing the references

Untested, but from purely looking at the changelog, it looks good to me, nice one.


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#6 2015-06-28 16:41:25

gaekwad
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Re: Kill off 'Ping textpattern.com'

Bloke wrote #292207:

Untested, but from purely looking at the changelog, it looks good to me, nice one.

I tried on a 4.5.7 to 4.6.0 dev and it worked OK.

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#7 2015-06-28 18:03:36

philwareham
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Re: Kill off 'Ping textpattern.com'

I’m happy with this. Raise a PR and I will merge when I’m next at my dev computer (tomorrow)

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#8 2015-06-28 21:21:31

gaekwad
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Re: Kill off 'Ping textpattern.com'

Done.

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