Had a post a long time ago about ping errors in MovableType. For the past few days, I’m getting yet another error, this time to do with the “recently updated” key. Basically, this is a facility available to paid users of MovableType, and it pings the MovableType servers so that the blog shows up in the recently updated list on the MovableType homepage. For the last couple of posts, I’ve been getting a 404 error. I wrote off to them and, to my great surprise and pleasure, got a reply in a few minutes.
Here’s what they said:
Thanks for contacting us - we have received other recent reports of this error, and it appears that some recent changes to the organization of our site may have broken this feature. Please be assured we have filed a report for this issue, and hope it will be fixed as soon as possible by the responsible team. We would expect that this feature will resume working as before, or that if any updates are required to your configuration settings, that these will be communicated to you.
The presence of the error in your Activity Log when creating a new entry as a result of this issue should not affect the publication of your entry or other features in any way - it is just the case that the optional weblog promotion via our Recently Updated List is not currently functioning. If you would like to prevent the error from occurring, however, you can do this by disabling the feature, such that the update ping attempt will not be made. To do this, you will need to delete your Update Key from the “Recently Updated Key:” setting, under Publicity/Remote Interfaces on the Settings > New Entry Defaults for each of your weblogs, saving that change. The update ping will then no longer be attempted.
Good to know that someone’s paying attention! 
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