that's weird, because i was just on that page, following the link from webloghype, but in fact i've built up my ping list over time as i hear about things. we should be pinging blogroots too, but then we'd flood the incoming feed from blogroots (heh).

this is another thing that's slowing down builds.

i'm not sure why MT would page through all 6000 entries or whatever every time we post. and if i go for volumes, then i'm worried about the category thing you mentioned and about making the search no longer work (i guess several blogs can be included - it just seems so complicated).

i don't think scoop would make us a slashsdot. i just think some high-involvement readers would start posting diaries and we could front-page them when interesting.

nonono. the search does work making sure you set the Regex to the X number of blogs you have. Works dandy, trust me. just look at the OtherBlogs plug-in and see if it makes sense.

Yea after much thought I can't see reason why it wouldn't work.

Surely all the pages are not touched on normal postings. There does seem to be a substantial performance drag when posts reach above 1k or so per blog. Of course I have no data to support that and really don't have any theories.