Another new Micro.blog 3.2 beta is out for TestFlight. @vincent is tweaking the tags design and it’s looking really nice. I think we can probably ship this to everyone next week. And it’s a great time to try bookmarks and tagging in Micro.blog Premium if you haven’t upgraded yet.
@manton adding images for external blogs still not working. When adding an image to a post, it gives the error “Whoops an error occurred, please try again”.
The image appears to be in the post. I can add alt text to it. When I press the post button, the text will publish but the image is missing.
@kimonostereo Sorry, sounds like we're going to have to spin up another Movable Type server to test this more thoroughly.
@manton posted 2 hours ago and my posts still haven’t shown up on micro.blog. Is there a way to get them to show up without having to monitor or manually trigger micro.blog the settings?
@manton when I go into Edit Sources and Cross-posting, both of my feeds show Error: invalid RSS feed. When I attempt to re-add one, the previous feed then shows that it's fine?
@kimonostereo Looking into this. There is definitely an error when parsing the feed. Anything change recently with your feed? It doesn't validate using validator.w3.org, but the errors don't seem that critical either, to be honest.
@manton Not that I know of? I haven't touched them in quite a while. Strange that the original feed showed OK once I added it as an additional feed. I deleted the newer duplicate then the original was working again and the post showed up. Now it says invalid again. I'll check my feed structure today.
@manton my posts haven’t been showing up on the feed recently either (probably the last week or two). My feed also fails the validator (will work on that, but I’m not great at this stuff), but I’ve found if I go to Account → Feeds → Refresh it, it works and pushes my posts. // @kimonostereo
@humdrum @kimonostereo If refreshing the feed manually works, than the validation errors are not causing a problem. Must be something with our periodic checks for when feeds change. I just made one change that might help and will continue to investigate.
@manton I fixed the issues in my feeds, but both still say invalid after reload. Should I re-add the feed?
@kimonostereo Sorry, finally figured it out. I hadn't noticed when I tested before that Micro.blog is getting a special response that is not actually the RSS feed. It's an HTML page that says "Please wait while your request is being verified". This must be being added to your blog by your hosting provider. Maybe there's a security feature that can be disabled?
@kimonostereo Yes, very possibly. I did some searching and some of the matches were from Cloudflare customers. Maybe you can temporarily disable the Cloudflare proxy if you’re using that?
@manton OK i've disabled the proxy for now. Do you know if it's possible to whitelist micro.blog on Cloudflare?
@manton Looks like the feeds are working again! So I guess Cloudflare was blocking it. I looked in CF Firewall events and couldn't see anything that looked like micro.blog getting blocked. Not sure what to do to allow micro.blog access to the feeds.
@manton Oh! Looking in Cloudflare WAF section, there are IP Access Rules that I've used in the past to allow IFTTT access to my website without having that block. Maybe this can be done for micro.blog as well via IP or AS number?
@kimonostereo That sounds like a good thing to try. Do you mind following up in email and I will send you the IP addresses for our servers, where feed crawling is coming from? It could change in the future but isn't likely to anytime soon.
@manton I added the IPs you sent and reactivated the Cloudflare Proxy. I thought it worked at first, but now I’m seeing the same issue as before with invalid RSS feed error. So i guess it didn’t work. I sent you a follow up email with a screenshot of the Cloudflare settings.
@manton also, what is interesting is that I don't see micro.blog IPs in Cloudflare's security events log as a managed challenge or block. Turning off Cloudflare's proxy fixes it, but I wonder what else it could be.
