[njkleiner]

They were never really supposed to be interoperable with pingback from what I can tell, see the reasons here[0].

You're right in the sense that it's a classic case of <insert XKCD standards comic here>, but FYI there is a pingback to Webmention converter now[1].

[0]: https://indieweb.org/Webmention-faq#Why_webmention_instead_o... [1]: https://webmention.io/#forwarding

[onli]

Pingbacks I understood, xmlrpc was a mistake. Trackbacks on the other hand... That's the FAQ that annoyed me the most (just didn't see it again when writing the comment above), as if trackbacks had no link verification in modern blogging engines.

It's great that the pingback conversion exists now, one issue less :)