Subscribe to category from Mastodon - no activity?
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Hello,
just recently found out that NodeBB supports ActivityStream, great! We are running the Forum for UBports and Ubuntu Touch at https://forums.ubports.com and my first idea was that I could make the News category discoverable for the Fediverse.
So after some fiddling I managed to publish https://forums.ubports.com/category/41/news correctly it seems, as I can search, see and subscribe this from Mastodon:
But so far no new posts do appear. What am I doing wrong here, or do I have wrong expectations
Thanks BR Florian
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@Flohack hi! Sounds like the forum is an upgrade and not a new installation, so activitypub is probably not enabled by default.
It does sound like you figured that out. So can you please send me a screenshot of the privileges page for that category?
Also perhaps you need to grant the view users privilege in global privs.
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I wasn't able to mention your account on the UBports forum. So that's why I think the view users privilege might be the issue.
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Hi Julian, indeed its an upgrade. I figured the general enable switch as well as those privileges:
However, I did not check global privs so far.
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@Flohack might be the view users privilege needs to be on otherwise other services can't resolve the authoring user and drop the activity...
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Ok its enabled now, lets see!
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Paging @flohack@forums.ubports.com ... come in @flohack@forums.ubports.com
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@julian@community.nodebb.org Ok that seems to work. Writing now from the forum
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@julian@community.nodebb.org Ok so far so good. But the category still has no posts on "the other side" - any idea how this will happen - only with the next new post?
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@flohack@forums.ubports.com from Mastodon you can manually "pull in" posts by searching for the post URL (not the topic)
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@julian@community.nodebb.org ah ok but what does subscribe to category then actually mean? I mean its possible, it shows subscribers in the category settings etc.
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@flohack@forums.ubports.com subscribing to the category means new topics will be delivered to the follower.
The manual search is just for manually backfilling posts.
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Ok so, after turning on all the right permissions and subscribing to this category, from now on new stuff should appear right?
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Let's hope so!
