In short, I have two forums: https://forum.ieu.app and https://yasaruni.com
Users from both instances can discover and follow each other without any issue.
However, categories from one forum do not appear in the World search of the other — meaning users can’t find or follow remote categories, even though user federation works fine. Do you have any idea .?
julian I discovered that the issue on the other forum was caused by http://yasaruni.com
, so I immediately switched it to https. Now, I can see and follow users on https://forum.ieu.app
, but I’m having trouble adding categories between users. Even when a user follows a specific category, it doesn’t appear in the World search — for example, the handle [email protected]
doesn’t show up. What could be the reason for this? Also, all permissions for the Fediverse are enabled on both instances.
{
"url": "https://forum.ieu.app",
"secret": "************************",
"database": "mongo",
"port": "4567",
"mongo": {
"host": "mongo",
"port": "27017",
"username": "***********,
"password": "***********",
"database": "**********",
"uri": ""
}
}
We are using docker I censored it
julian I discovered something else that might help solve the problem:
When I send a follow request from my own forum to the other forum's user, it says “request pending,” and the request notification never reaches the other side.
However, when I send a follow request to the same user from the official NodeBB forum, the request is successfully delivered and is automatically accepted.
So I think I’m doing something wrong somewhere, but I can’t figure out what it is.
julian Let me explain it like this: Normally, I can add ActivityPub in this way — I just enter the handle and it gets added directly. But when I try to add a handle from my own forum, I get a “not found” error.
Then I went ahead and entered a “1” in the Category ID field, which is normally empty. It was added successfully after that. I deleted it and tried the same process again, but this time it didn’t get added. I changed the Category ID to something like “3”, and then it didn’t give a “not found” error, but nothing showed up either.
If the Category ID field is left empty, it gives an error.
Sky2023245 And something strange happened — earlier, I managed to add a category from one forum to the other, but I had manually set the ID to 1. It worked that time. Later, I deleted it and tried to add it again, but since the previous posts didn’t show up, I removed everything. Now, it doesn’t accept the same action anymore and refuses to add it again.
julian said in Remote Category Add Fails with “Not Found” (both forums AP-enabled):
> Kadir-Ay-0 Sky2023245 both forums can't find each other?
>
> Can they find @[email protected] ?
Yes, exactly — I can’t get the two forums to discover each other. They both detect the ActivityPub endpoint, but they cannot find each other as remote instances.
Also, when I try to post a test topic from my NodeBB forum into my own ActivityPub instance, the topic does not appear on my local forum.
I can add ActivityPubs from a NodeBB forum, but I can’t add them from my other forum. My forums are running versions 4.5.1 and 4.6. What could be the reason for this?
Both forums have ActivityPub enabled. Permissions: Guests + Fediverse actors = View. When attempting to add the category as a Remote Category, I encounter the error below. Could you advise what I’m missing?