As part of my work on the blog's presence, I try to submit my articles to relevant directories. One such directory is the Zend Framework Tutorials site, which I thought would be a perfect place for my Models in the Zend Framework series.

When I try to submit my article I am presented with the following form:

First thing I wonder, is what the hell do they mean by reciprocal URL. I know what the term means, but what am I expected to write there? no clue in sight, and no 'help' link to be found.

So I try to fill it up the best as I can, only to receive the following cryptic error:

Hmmm... Listing seems to be broken. No kidding. WTF?? Check it manually? what am I supposed to do with this? I tried variations with the URL (with and without http://), tried changing the reciprocal URL, nada. I looked around the site to see other submitted tutorials and found no clue as to what I was doing wrong.

What is the failure here:

• A cryptic error message
• No further help is offered
• The error is preventing me from completing the process
• No contact email or any other way to ask for assistance

This is what you get when you let programmers design user interactions. (If anybody has any idea on how to solve this, I would appreciate it)