Welcome to everyone visiting from Slashdot! The story generated some good discussion, including

FT isn’t BitTorrent (but how they might work together)
why it’s OK that there’s some conceptual overlap with NNTP
a good response to a reasonable question: what’s the problem, exactly?

It wasn’t really the bump in users I was hoping for; at our peak this […]

There’s growing concern in some quarters over blog pings, in particular that the various ping services are unlikely to be able to continue to provide their free service (viz., listing recently-updated blogs) for an exponentially increasing population of ping sources.
A corollary might be that, yes, ping services don’t scale, and what’s more, they’re not a […]