December 23, 2002

9:44 AM

Since the start of December, whenever I've written a post for the front page, previewed it, then hit the final 'Post' I get this error, which says the 'request has exceeded the allowable time limit'.. and this occurs on the line where weblogs.com is pinged. My posts do make it to the front page but I just get this error.

Someone reported the same error six months ago, but it appears to have started again..
posted by wackybrit to bugs at 9:44 AM (8 comments total)

ditto here, and its been a while since i did an FPP.
posted by quonsar at 9:50 AM on December 23, 2002

Yeah, I get it two. It's just MeFi's zany way of saying it already has enough posts, thank you very much.
posted by MiguelCardoso at 9:52 AM on December 23, 2002

Yeah, I get it two.

!
posted by timeistight at 10:59 AM on December 23, 2002

It's just MeFi's zany way of saying it already has enough posts, thank you very much. posted by MiguelCardoso

And just who's fault is that, Mr. 300 thread man?

(It's a joke. Laugh or I'll send someone over to bite your butt...and appropriate your cognac stash.)

;)
posted by dejah420 at 11:57 AM on December 23, 2002

*laughs a lot*

Ah, dejah. Back in my glory non-castrati years I'd have been on MeTa by now with a "Wow! Who else is in the 300 Plus Club?" thread. As it is, I'm pushing my luck with a mere comment. ;)
posted by MiguelCardoso at 12:10 PM on December 23, 2002

It's a timeout for the ping to Userland's weblogs.com server. I've been meaning to email Dave Winer about it to ask him what's up, but from time to time sending his server a ping times out after 30 seconds.
posted by mathowie at 8:44 PM on December 23, 2002

there's no way to send the ping and move on? why does the code have to wait for a response?
posted by quonsar at 2:00 PM on December 24, 2002

Because that'd mean Dave Winer wouldn't get his way :-)
posted by wackybrit at 5:11 PM on December 24, 2002