spacefragments ([personal profile] spacefragments) wrote2009-03-19 05:14 pm
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last post for today swear it

is it just me or is this pingback thing completely useless? the only notifications it sends is when i link to my own posts. which is stupid, if you think about it. am i doing something wrong?

[identity profile] furiosity.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I've been notified when other people have linked to my posts! But someone said somewhere that for pingbacks to work, both you and the linker have to have pingbacks enabled. Which, yeah, stupid. But I don't know if it's true and I haven't bothered to research it. >.>

[identity profile] spacefragments.livejournal.com 2009-03-19 10:13 pm (UTC)(link)
der. someone clearly did not think this one through.

i'm thinking i should just disable it, every time i get a notification i go YAY SOMEONE LINKED ME oh wait it's myself again.

[identity profile] lupinlicious.livejournal.com 2009-03-21 03:19 pm (UTC)(link)
What the heck is a pingback?

[identity profile] spacefragments.livejournal.com 2009-03-21 05:09 pm (UTC)(link)
it's a service for paid accounts, you friend this bot and it notifies you every time someone links to one of your posts. however, it only works if a) the other's account is also paid b) that paid account also has the service activated. so, so far the only notifications i've received are when i like to my own posts. u_u

[identity profile] lupinlicious.livejournal.com 2009-03-22 04:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Huh. Well, that's sort of pointless, isn't it, if you only get notified if paid accounts link to your posts? Most people (I'd say) don't have paid accounts.