New Posts not visible up on the Fediverse after 4.7.0/4.7.1

[chfrank-cgn]

Quick summary

After the plugin update to 4.7.0 (or 4.7.1), new blog posts are no longer visible from the Fediverse; old posts remain available.

Steps to reproduce

When submitting a new blog post, in the past, that post became almost immediately available on the fediverse.

However, the latest blog post (https://chfrank.net/wordpress/2025/01/14/riesa/) does not show up; the previous post is the last one visible for @cfrank@chfrank.net (https://chaos.social/@cfrank@chfrank.net).

Also, sending a new follow request to the blog will succeed but won't be reflected on the blog's admin page.

It seems as if the plugin is active but disconnected from WordPress.

Site owner impact

Fewer than 20% of the total website/platform users

Severity

Moderate

What other impact(s) does this issue have?

No response

If a workaround is available, please outline it here.

No response

[pfefferle]

We had an issue with 4.7.0 because it broke the followers list. Have you re-tried it after the update to 4.7.1?

[chfrank-cgn]

I added the follower only after the plugin update, just as a test

[IAmDarthMole]

I can confirm similar behavior. I just finished migrating hosters and was testing replying to other posts and noticed that they weren't appearing. I then found this bug report and double checked to see if I could find the new posts in the fediverse and couldn't. Old ones are appearing in search, new ones aren't.

So it seems there is a delay?

After a few minutes I was able to see/find my test post (https://madmolelabs.com/2025/testing-ap-plugin/) in certain cases....

• It appeared in my mast.madmolelabs.com home feed only after I searched for the URL, which it found.
• I was able to find the post, via url search, on mast.madmolelabs.com (logged in) and pixelfed.social (not logged in)
• I'm still UNable to find the post, via url search, on mas.to and mastodon.social (not logged in)
• If I log-in to mastodon.social it appears in my home feed without searching but still can't be found via search.

I did a second test post (https://madmolelabs.com/2025/testing-ap-plugin-again/) and this is the following.....

• It appeared in my mast.madmolelabs.com home feed after a 7 minute delay without searching for it first (logged in)
• It appeared in my mastodon.social home feed right as I logged in which was also roughly 7 minutes after posting.
• It appears in my mast.madmolelabs.com search ONLY AFTER I manually select Posts (logged in)
• It won't appear in mastodon.social search even if I manually select Posts (logged in).
• It won't appear in mas.to search.
• It won't appear in pixelfed.social search

I am able to follow with certain accounts, though they were following before and I unfollowed prior. Not sure if there caching involved there or not, but my followers list on my wordpress profile page was updating based on my unfollow and refollow. I'm unable to follow from mas.to and pixelfed.social though I'm not sure if that behavior is related to my prior issues.

[chfrank-cgn]

No change after 4.7.2; new posts and followers don't show up - would it be beneficial to downgrade to 4.6.0?
Maybe the follower migration wasn't re-run?

[pfefferle]

Your followers now show up properly: https://chfrank.net/wordpress/wp-json/activitypub/1.0/actors/1/followers

Or do you miss some?

Can you check if a cron is blocking?

[chfrank-cgn]

These are only the three pre-4.7.X followers; the new ones are missing. This is a hosted WordPress instance; how do I check for a blocked cron or any other relevant log file?

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[pfefferle]

🤔 ...

when I unfollow and refollow your profile, my account will be removed and readded to your followers list, like it should. I could even follow you on new instances.

to check the crons, you could try: https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-crontrol/

[chfrank-cgn]

With 4.7.3 it's working fine now - thank you!

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On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 1:18 PM Matthias Pfefferle ***@***.***> wrote: 🤔 ... when I unfollow and refollow your profile, my account will be removed and readded to your followers list, like it should. I could even follow you on new instances. to check the crons, you could try: https://de.wordpress.org/plugins/wp-crontrol/ — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#1177 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AKFZ3MTFY442J24NY3RVBRD2L6EC3AVCNFSM6AAAAABVLPFZAWVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDMMBXGA4TSOBQGQ> . You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>