Delayed sharing doesn’t share

  • Resolved elliekennard

    (@elliekennard)


    1 year, 1 month ago

    Hi there

    I was having a slight issue with posting with what is probably a conflict with Subscribe2 plugin. When the post goes out and my emails are sent out to subscribers and it goes onto Mastodon, for a minute or 2, my site goes offline. It comes back fairly quickly, but I thought I could resolve it by putting the delay for Mastodon to 300 seconds. I tried today and basically it didn’t share at all. (I have now shared manually directly on Mastodon as I couldn’t work out how to reshare. I can disable the subscribe2 sending for a second send.)

    Ellie

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  • Thread Starter elliekennard

    (@elliekennard)

    Correction!

    It did share, after all. I don’t know why Mastodon didn’t show it (I saw it from another profile), perhaps the mstdn.ca server was acting up or overwhelmed. I will keep the delay setting on, perhaps making it a bit shorter. Sorry to have caused confusion.

    Plugin Author Jan Boddez

    (@janboddez)

    Could also be WordPress’ “cron” (i.e., scheduling) functionality, which isn’t … exact at all. Not by default, at least. So it is absolutely possible that you set a delay of 5 minutes and got, e.g., 10 minutes instead.

    The site going down after publishing could have to do with Mastodon. If you post a link (like, to your site), all these different Mastodon servers will fetch that link to try to generate a “preview card.” A caching plugin might help with that. But it could also be something else entirely.

    Thread Starter elliekennard

    (@elliekennard)

    That makes sense, Jan. Thanks. I can put up with a brief downtime, but I will try again, this time setting a delay of 60 seconds and see how it goes.

    Cheers

    Ellie

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