Again, I maintain that I really appreciate all that the edublogs team does, and the security and stability that maintaing this platform necessitates. Again I am concerned that currently edublogs (whose main focus is educators and students) is hosting 336,111 blogs that are under such attack where blogger, typepad, Spaces, and other hosts (some hosting many more blogs especially blogger) are not, or at least are maintaining the stability while allowing XMLRPC to remain an open conduit for users…

I have enjoyed the last couple of years here, but if this is going to be the final decision and direction of the edublogs team, I am going to have to begin looking for other hosts to migrate this blog. I imagine that I will have a separate actual post about that decision process and if I finalize a choice to move.

Scott

Thanks for commenting and I really appreciate all the efforts of the edublogs team. Now that you have explained it further I completely understand the balance you need to achieve between security and stability and features and functionality for your users. Especially if having a connector open is allowing spammers to interrupt your clients usability. One of the reasons I moved from a self hosted platform was to get away from all of the hassles of keeping the backend going and staying on top of the constant updates to protect the security of the platform.

Additionally, I cannot express how much I appreciate the re-activation of the XMLRPC connector. I have full acess back into my blog from all of the various external writing and mobile blogging apps I use.

I’d like to thank you also for your support and guidance to the blogging community here at edublogs.org.

Scott

We couldn’t provide an exact date of when it would be switched back on because it depended on the timing of the upgrade and dealing with an issues that might arise as part of the upgrade. There is an enormous work that happens for months behind the scenes before and while the system is being upgraded.

Stability and security issues have to be our first priority. Now that the upgrade has happened. We have switched XMLRPC back on and it is currently available for all users. However we may need to consider limiting it to Edublogs supporter blogs and blogs that have had ads disabled by an Edublogs supporter blog to minimise use by spammers.

So at present any application uses XMLRPC should work and WordPress for iPhone should also work. However its not possible to promise that all 3rd party applications will work any blogging platform. We have no control over 3rd party applications or changes to their systems.