Nice when it works

Oh, sad to hear that it does not work properly! Can we help?

It is really flaky, sometime post don’t get sent to the Mastodon feed and sometimes they do.

I don’t have the time or technical knowledge to be a beta tester.

Hey @edfoc,

ActivityPub is a demanding protocol and it is challenging to get it to work on all shared hosting environments with different setups, PHP versions and especially caching plugins have often issues with ActivityPubs content-negotiation feature.

Feel free to describe your issue in the forums and we try to help you.

(I had a first look at your site and followed it on mastodon. It seems to work as it should, I can also see a lot of old posts)

Sorry again, that it seems to not work as you expect it.

• This reply was modified 7 months ago by Matthias Pfefferle.

Post don’t appear when published on the site on a regular basis, sometime (rarely) a Mastodon post will appear, not long after they are posted on the website, sometimes not at all.

I spent over an hour today trying to get things to appear in the Mastodon feed and nothing was happening. Then an hour later there was a rush of posts, which made it look like spamming the feed.

As I say, it is nice when it works, but too often it doesn’t work reliably ??

We have to use the WP_Cron mechanism to send posts asynchronous, otherwise we would block the publishing process when a blog has lots of followers. This makes publishing a bit unpredictable, depending on how the WP_Cron is configure and processed. It might also depend on how many other events are triggered in the same timeslot.

The issue with ActivityPub is, that we have to send the post to each followers inbox.

• This reply was modified 7 months ago by Matthias Pfefferle.
• This reply was modified 7 months ago by Matthias Pfefferle.