I'm OK with removing it.
> On Nov 7, 2026, at 19:38, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Before I cut Roller 7 I'd like to retire one more obsolete feature: > outbound weblog update pings: the weblogUpdates.ping XML-RPC calls Roller > sends to ping servers when a post is published. > > The case for dropping it: > > - It is a dead protocol. Google Blog Search, Technorati and FeedBurner > Pingshot have all shut down, and Bing's sitemap ping now returns 410 Gone. > Ping-O-Matic is about the only relay still answering, and what it relays to > is mostly dead too. > > - No real value. Pinging no longer helps indexing or ranking; search > engines discover new content through sitemaps (and IndexNow for > Bing/Yandex), not pings. Even WordPress keeps pinging only as an inert > legacy setting. > > - Less to carry. It is network-facing code and admin UI we no longer need > to maintain. > > Scope: the ping-targets admin pages and per-weblog ping settings, the > XML-RPC ping client and queue, and the related config keys and database > tables. > > Anybody opposed to this? > > Thanks, > Dave
