"Add a Blog" Doesn't Work

If you're trying to add a MetaWeblog blog, please try again in a day or two once we've made an update with a fix for an issue affecting some servers. If you're adding another kind of blog please let us know the address and we'll investigate its compatibility.

I was trying to add a "MetaWeblog" blog, which I'm confident 99% of your users wouldn't understand. :) WordPress 2.5 via an XML-RPC call. What's odd is that the form through the "MetaWeblog" credentials page worked fine (without direction, which is sorely lacking throughout the site). I couldn't figure out the convention for Atom, FWIW.

I know you guys are just starting out, but that's the reason I'm giving so much of my time and attention to you - I've been waiting for a service like this for a while.

Now, while I'm on the subject of the MetaWeblog publishing action, might I note that it did work for me through chris.pirillo.com - albeit, with some hiccups:

1. Title wasn't used as the title, but added to the description of the post.

2. Tags didn't map at all.

3. There's no way to set up a default category.

4. There's no way to define a default thumbnail size to be posted, nor did it the thumbnail link off to the original image on the blog. This may very well be a local setting, but...

The easiest way to add a blog is the 'add blog by address' option which uses endpoint auto-discovery and simply takes a user's blog address (thus removing the need for a user to know what blog system they use).This option currently appears last on the add pipes page.

If you end up on the destinations page after adding then your destination should have been added; if there was an error, you should never get to that page and would remain on the add page that asks for credentials with an error. If you're reliably reproducing the same issue across browsers I'd love to check the issue out in more detail. What endpoint URL were you attempting, does the same issue occur with bad credentials as well as good?

Once we're sure we've got great stability and scaling, usability will become our #1 concern. We'll strive to not let you or anyone else down as we continue to roll out functionality but we don't want to set expectations too high just yet!

1. An oversight on our part, there will be a title. See this related query.
   
2. Depends on the platform, and settings. Tags will only be added to blog posts when set to post individually, and only when supported by the provider.
   
3. Coming in future. See this related query.
   
4. This is looking a little ahead, but we will give you a choice of layouts in future, and link to the original file. Currently we do not host the original file, you should really use in combination with a service that does (and we'll make that easier in future too—there's a lot of functionality to be built out ahead!).
   

Thanks for all your time checking the system out and reporting your issues!

I can't add my Movabletype blog. The MovableType pipe setup asks for user login info-- but not the blog URL... so it fails everytime.

The "add a blog by address" setup fails with "url you have entered is not valid" which I think I've tried EVERY possible variant of the URL (with http://, without http:// with www, without www, the basic blog url, the blog url to mt-xmlrpc.cgi... etc).

Nothing works. Any ideas?

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