darrentoogood

It will work, but it will only publish to your Page as an admin-only post.

I have gone through the official App Review process and it has been good as gold. I’m still using SNAP but just not their Premium API.

Safe to say I have not renewed my package. Thankfully, it was coming up for renewal so I did get at least 48 weeks worth of use out of it.

Glad you’ve managed to get something sorted like I have.

It certainly seems to me that Facebook are cracking down on NS’s Premium API, although they deny this.

It says 5 days, but I was going the review feedback within 12 hours. So it is not a very long process at all now – stark contrast to the 12 weeks it was when I took out the Premium API last year!

I had a few issues with my account, but I know what that is all about. It is quite a complex process – you have to have your business verified through documentation, then you have to explain how it all works (guide on Nextscripts website). You also have to set them up with a login and then do a screencast to show how to test it all out.

But overall it wasn’t anything too difficult and even with having to submit 3 revisions, it was finally approved within a matter of days.

I have now removed the Premium API and I have gone down the route of having a Facebook App reviewed and approved.

No problems at all now since I’ve gone through the official API.

Still using Nextscripts as the platform to post.

I’m having dreadful issues with NextScripts Premium API at the moment.

A couple of weeks ago my Facebook account started flagging suspicious activity from my server in Germany. I confirmed my account was safe etc. and then around 2 weeks ago my account was temporarily locked!

Absolute panic stations at this point. My business was brought to its knees for a time. I tried creating ‘fake’ accounts to connect to NextScripts but within 2-4 posts those accounts were also locked and subsequently banned.

I have now got my main account back after a week-long ‘lock’ but I am now reluctant to connect my account to NextScripts again. I can’t take the risk. This means that my news site is currently not able to auto-post to Facebook, which is a real pain!

NextScripts say there is no issue, but clearly something has changed. My thoughts are that Facebook are cracking down on workarounds to the Facebook App/API process – which is basically what NS Premium API seems to be.

Thankfully it seems that the app review is estimated at just 5 days now, not the 7+ weeks it was when I first decided to upgrade to the NS Premium API when all the changes came in last year.

If this is Facebook cracking down, then it renders the Premium API useless. I just hope I can still use the plugin using Facebook’s API – should my app request be approved.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by darrentoogood.
• This reply was modified 5 years, 7 months ago by darrentoogood.

I have run the plugin and external scanners, but nothing has been found. The website is not blacklisted and I have changed the passwords.

The guide doesn’t really explain any further how to locate the issue.

Good afternoon,

I have carried out checks using all of the plugins and all of the external site checkers – nothing found.

There is no evidence of the issue. I have also manually checked the normal header/footer/function files for any suspicious code – nothing.

Many thanks, that explains it I suppose.

Yet another thing Facebook have messed with to cause maximum disruption. I don’t understand it :S

A few weeks ago they stopped the ability to get Push Notifications for ‘all posts’ within a group. It has negatively effected my business and this update will too!

I have had the hosting company check the logs etc. and they say they have made adjustments etc… but nothing seems to work.

The site is hosted on a VPS (4 core, 8GB RAM). I’m told it should happily cope with thousands of visitors at one time.

Hi 77 – yes I do

I have spoken to my host several times and they can’t seem to find an issue.

Caching has been mentioned to me and maybe the fact that caching is disabled for logged in users? I have looked into this but it is said that if caching is enabled for logged in users, then logged out users may start seeing incorrect versions of the pages etc.

Thanks Ben, I will look into it.

Surely ‘max connections’ set to 150 will not permit a great number of people onto the website?

Of course, although I have been assured the server specs should be able to easily cope with much, much more traffic than 300-500 visitors at a time.

VPS Server – Linux
Memory: 8GB
HDD: 80 GB SSD Storage w/Raid 10
CPU : 4 CPU Cores
Bandwidth: 6TB

Hi Ben,

Many thanks for getting back to me.

I am the only logged-in user when the issue occurs – all other visitors to the website are simply browsing.

I currently have 12,177 posts with 68 pages.

Is this a server issue, or is it a caching issue? I’m at my whits end.