I noticed this too and have just made the switch to using movable type itself to control the blogroll.

what i did was set up another weblog and made the main entry template a very simplifed template that you just put the title, link and hover tag into.  hit submit and it shows up in my ‘blogoll’ which is included via php.

you need php to do it tho, but it is local, fairly easy to update (especially with mt’s bookmarklet) and very customizable.  the only disadvantage is no notification of updates weblogs.  i’d love a script for that part

happy to see i wasn’t the only one affected by this, tho!

Mine aren’t linking to one blog, but they seem locked and many say they we last updated a few days ago. Things seem to be a little awry.

Hopefully they will get things fixed…

You may not have got my e-mail yet, but I noticed the problem around 9am this morning. I usually use links on my blogroll to read certain sites in the morning on a daily basis. I used one of the links, then when I went to post an entry into my site, I noticed that the links were wonky.

I’m glad that Jason has restored all the entries, however, I agree with you. I would like to have a script that does what Blogrolling does without using an external server. If not, I’m going to have to go back to editing the links by hand. Not exactly what I want to be doing, but it’s better than having something like that happen.

If you hear of a script that does what Blogrolling does, please post about it here so we can all evaluate it.

Ditto.  On GPs, I’d rather have control of this on my own system—except for having to go out and see who’s pinged whom to signal an update.  That’s the main reason I keep (and pay for) blogrolling.com.

Someone posted about something to do this in the mT forums… http://freebies.wiccked.com/mysqlinks/.

I’m going to try this tonight, I think… =)

I am a little old school.  I keep my blogroll in plain html in my template.

Of course, I lose the abilty to have an auto-pinger flag the recent updates.  But there you go.

Ted K.

That looks interesting, Lisa.  I’m going to hold off, on the moment, going that route.  If blogrolling.com continues to get hacked, or have frequent other problems, though ...

So far, from what I have seen on MySQLinks website, it looks exactly what I am looking for!

I’m going to have to spend some time this week setting it up and see if it really is what I am looking for.

I’d do something tonight, but the first days of this week are rather full.

One alternative I’m looking at making use of is setting up a cron job to poll blo.gs directly once every couple of hours and then make use of the MT Blogroll plugin to import it into my template.

After taking a look at the mySQLinks site I decided to give it a shot. I’ve got a test install in place and am already importing the mini-blogroll into the lefthand bar under the old blogroll. Works pretty good so far so once I get my links all converted I’ll remove the old blogroll and see how things go for awhile.