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Yes, Trackbacks or Pingbacks could have been extended to include a similar pull-parse behaviour as webmentions are doing right now. In fact I was reminded that

by pmlnr 11y ago

Yes, Trackbacks or Pingbacks could have been extended to include a similar pull-parse behaviour as webmentions are doing right now. In fact I was reminded that originally webmentions were on top of pingbacks: http://tantek.com/2013/113/b1/first-federated-indieweb-comment-thread http://tantek.com/2013/113/b1/first-federated-indieweb-comme... As far as I understand that change is mostly for simplification, which always a good thing.

onli 11y ago
Being on top of pingbacks makes no sense, xml-rpc is dead and a bad idea in a first place, also a lot harder to implement than just reacting to a ping + pretty much incompatible with the pull concept. If they started there, they probably did not know trackbacks existed. Webmentions are no simpler than trackbacks, and to have them diverge for no reason makes everything more complicated for the engine. It is no straight-forward simplification at all, thus no good thing.