Avoid username

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    Please avoid using an existing author’s name as the blog profile ID. Fediverse platforms might use caching and this could break the functionality completely.

    I only notice this now but posting to Mastodon has ceased since mid september. I used to post with a blog account-handle. Should I just alter the handle?

    • This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by eiland.
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  • Thread Starter eiland

    (@eiland)

    resolved

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by eiland.
    Mark

    (@codeispoetry)

    Care to post how you resolved this?

    Thread Starter eiland

    (@eiland)

    didnt – its crossed out – couldnt delete the comment.

    Plugin Author Matthias Pfefferle

    (@pfefferle)

    If you want to use the blog-user, it is important to not use a name, you have used for a user (an author) before. The blog-user is a new user and giving it an existing name, does not start a migration, so you will result in an inconsistent state, because mastodon might have cached the old endpoints and I am not sure how Mastodon handles changes of signatures.

    Long story short: Please use a different username for the blog and the authors.

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