Let’s find out. I’m hoping it does because I’ve sank my afternoon into fixing this issues with Zuck’s trash platform.

I truly hate debugging integrations that I have very little view into. This is not the future that I wanted.

David smiling in a RECON hat under a very large painting of a rubber duckie.

13 responses to “This is a test… does this work properly on Facebook?”

  1. Hahahaha best post ever

    1. 🤣

  2. I got an email (but direct from you all, not through Facebook)…so…maybe?
    *shrug*

    1. Sorry the post should be clear. I am testing the automation that pushes REA posts to Facebook.

      Testing this requires me to push content normally.

      I thought that I had solved the problem, but I did not. The Facebook integration is still broken.

  3. This email didn’t come via Facebook.

    1. Thank you. To test the issue, I had to publish via our normal distribution.

  4. Update and resolution?

    After eating most of my day… I think that I have a resolution to this Facebook debacle.

    The 429 error means that requests are being rate limited – Generally it will happen if there are more than 10 requests/sec from the same IP. I can see in our logs that we’ve been rate limiting.

    It seems Facebook is crawling Room Escape Artist too fast and repeatedly.

    To prevent we’ve set a crawl-delay for the Facebook user-agent in our robots.txt.

    It may take some time for the message on Facebook to go away as they tend to also cache things, but this should fix the problem as long as Facebook honors the robots.txt… which who knows. This place is terrible.

  5. Did anyone else think that this email was a secret virtual escape room, and not just a literal test? Just me?

    1. Maybe one day.

  6. This is neither a test nor a real Escape Game. David is trapped in in a Facebook quantum flux (Happens all the time). He will remain in this flux until his quantum superposition is resolved by simple observation*. Will he escape? Or will he be forever trapped in certain uncertainty?

    *Schrodinger’s cat conundrum

    1. My fix that I initially tested failed. But my later fix worked.

      So I did escape.

    1. Quack

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