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Back up as of 2009-09-08 15:45 GMT-0400

"Full blog" posting now works. Don't know when that changed, but it's good to know. I'll mark this ticket as resolved as soon as I can find the button...

Microblogs work, but full "blog" posts still don't appear.

Glad to hear you're working on it. Is there anything I can do to help test, or any way I can find out/be informed when Multiply support should be fully functional again?

Meg, I was going to open that as a separate ticket; It keeps problems segregated. (They're pretty responsive to new tickets, too.)

Anyway, of 25 blog (not micro-blog) posts made since May 3rd, all made it to Facebook, 18 made it to Multiply (75%), and 19 made it to LiveJournal (79%).

The ones that failed to reach Multiply were:
Getting Started - b - lj,fb
802.11 b/g channel wavelengths - b - lj-fb
Playing with Flickr - b - lj-fb
I'm annoyed at SourceForge - b - lj-fb
There are a couple ways I love this video - b - lj
Stop me if you've heard this one - b - lj-fb
ABC meme, twisted - b - lj-fb

No blog post after June 9th (anything past and including "Playing with Flickr") made it to Multiply, and several before that also failed to reach their destinations.

(The -b is my personal notation for identifying which posts were blog posts; I'm not counting microblog posts in this ticket. The lj and fb at the end of the line were how I tracked which posts made it to which services.)

The ones that failed to reach LiveJournal were:

Polarikey - mu-fb
Photos of Fire - mu-fb
So I'm Running Gentoo - b - mu-fb
Weekends are made to be screwy - mu-fb
Google for "Bill of Federalism" - mu-fb
So everyone in the building thinks I'm gay - mu-fb

Blog posting to Multiply is still broken, intermittently. Some full blog pings make it to Multiply as well as my Facebook and LJ accounts, and some only show up on Facebook and LJ. I haven't been able to discern what causes it, and it's gotten bad enough that I'm having to think about manually updating separate services again, or finding a different tool to do it.

I understand HTML fairly well(I'm taking a short break from my web app project here at work, and I also created and webmaster rosettacode.org as a hobby) the implications. I apparently neglected to recommend that such a configuration option be listed under Service Settings; That's how I had it pictured. (The reference to Slashdot was intended as an example of the types of filters that might be selected, not as an example of where such as selection would take place.)

As far as per-post configurations, that's not something I see within my scope of needs or wants in the near future. Certainly someone would eventually push for a "maximum flexibility" approach and ask that such a feature, but that's not something I'm interested in.

Meanwhile, having the configuration option available in the service settings pages gives me some means to work around scenarios where a pinged-to service changes the way they process the data Ping.fm sends them, without having to wait for Ping.fm's default per-site processing to be adjusted to reflect the change.

Adding the BR or P tags myself isn't a very good solution, because I would then wind up with normal formatting on Multiply, but double-spacing on LiveJournal. (I haven't even checked to see what my rarely-visited Blogger account looks like for that post, or the note on Facebook, but I expect they would look either like LJ or Multiply)

I understand you guys have to work hard to keep up with an increasing number of ping-to services' we're-not-required-to-notify-you-when-we-change-it APIs, and I'm hoping the type of flexibility and internal architecture that having such a filter set common to different services would lead to would end up making your jobs easier in the future, rather than more difficult; The easier your jobs are, the fewer bugs and quirks I have to deal with. :-)

Actually, I never used the microblogging feature with Multiply. I only ever used the Blogging component. (Wish it supported Multiply videos and pic albums, though.)

Not really. It looks like they disabled SSL altogether while they work it out.

I take that back; Logging out and then clicking "Login" took me to an SSL login page with a valid cert. So all seems to be well.

FYI, OS X's CA list is out of date or broken. A friend of mine discovered that earlier this week when apps using OS X's crypto API couldn't use his newly-issued cert, but FF and IE on Windows and Linux could.

It now seems to have been revoked. I'm getting (Error code: sec_error_revoked_certificate) from Firefox on VIsta32.