I’ve been using HEY World since day one and configured my RSS feed in my cross-posting settings enabling a cross-post to my Medium account. My posts on HEY World are fetched and put on my timeline but Those never got cross-published to Medium even if I enabled that option. Is it possible to look at this?
Unfortunately we don’t current log the errors for Medium separately, so it’s hard to track down since it looks like the Twitter cross-posts from the Hey World feed went through fine. If you haven’t tried it yet, you may want to disable Medium and re-authenticate to make sure it still has access to your Medium account. I’ll look into this a little more too.
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Ok, I did the disable and re-enable thing. On the latter, it didn’t ask me to re-authenticate… I guess the access token was still valid?
Not sure if this is the right place but pops up as the first link when I search for Embed.
I’m trying to embed one of my year-old post on a Blot blog but from my archives when I browse to that post, I don’t see an embed link. I’m guessing it is currently available only on the timeline. Any chance of searching for it on the timeline to get the embed code?
Same issue after disabling and enabling cross post to medium.
Medium cross-posts only worked for me briefly back in August '20 when I had it on the basic everything RSS feed.
Since I’ve created my own Category feed it has never worked on multiple refreshes, even when Mastodon, Twit, LI have all worked on same one!
@manton if you are going to give your Medium connection an overhaul, here’s the recommendations I gave for optimisations to support email again:
Linking back to original
In Medium’s story settings, there’s an option to put a canonical link to the original article. I think this boosts the original article in SEO.
I noticed that you add automatically the original, which is awesome!
I’m just curious: did that happen automatically, or did you have to customize the Medium api? It would seem to not be in Medium’s interest to automatically enable this as it reduces their visibility.
To go one step further, can we send the same message to humans too, i.e. automatically add a line actually in the story text at the bottom: like “This was originally published at: blog.w4rner …” ??
Meter story for Medium Partner Program
Can we customize api to set this on instead?
Frankly, this is the only good reason I can see to cross-post to Medium.
Tags
You can add up to 5 on Medium natively.
Could the API automatically add ones based on first 5 #hashtags in M.b title & text?
e.g. here) would add IndieWeb as a Medium tag.
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I disabled Medium cross-posting as this feature doesn’t work. It should be removed until further notice, IMHO. A bit frustrating, if you ask me.
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I’ve been testing Medium cross-posting this morning and it’s working fine for me. @numericcitizen, I’ll take a closer look at your account and see if there’s anything specific interfering.
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Thanks, let me know!
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Another HEY World not being cross-posted to Medium. I quit. 
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Technically, I have a Medium account that I have never used. If you’d like, I could tinker around and see if I can get cross-posting to it up and running. (The implication being we may be able to troubleshoot what is happening with your setup).
Update: I went ahead anyway to see if I can generate any traffic (not holding my breath) and my two posts this morning showed up. Holler if you want another set of eyes on the problem you are having.
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Hi, ok, here is what I did today:
- reset the auth method on Medium to use Sign In with Apple.
- revoked access to Micro.blog from the Medium account settings page.
- on my Micro.blog account page, re-enabled cross-posting to Medium and cross-posting in general for my HEY world feed just like shown below. Will see on my next HEY World post.
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I did another try this morning… my HEY World article was syndicated to Twitter normally, as configured… but not on Medium. It’s not a simple blog post… it contains images… I’m still waiting for it to appear on Medium… 
here is the source link:
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I ran into the “too many stories” wall yesterday (post ended up in drafts) trying to get a category specific cross-post today.
Might be worth sending a test post limited to one image to see if we can get anything to stick.
Update: tossing Tumblr into the mix. Looks like the JSON feed works as expected for what I am sending. No luck yet with Tumblr or Medium in getting the rss feed to cross-post (which I introduced to filter only stuff worth cross-posting).
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See if you have a JSON version of your feed to try out. If RSS isn’t working for me perhaps atom isn’t working for you.
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On JF Martin Is provided. .rss doesn’t work it seems. Maybe if I just enter: JF Martin And MB would figure it all out?
What is your base address as seen by Micro.blog? Example: I jumped back into society with Micro.blog so they are hosting me at moondeer.micro.blog. I then added a custom domain name so I could simply be moondeer.blog.
I ask because Imma have to piddle with some trial and error to get a handle on the Hugo generated feeds and how Micro.blog is interpreting our cross-post configurations.
I’m using numericcitizen.micro.blog. Cannot see how this would make a difference, though.
It wouldn’t, just trying to get my head around stuff. I am in the process of dissecting how Hugo is generating the JSON feed so I can create a category specific feed of my own. If I can figure that out we may be able to figure out how to get a feed working with your setup.
I checked for a JSON feed here and it exists: https://numericcitizen.micro.blog/feed.json
I just woke up so may be missing something but this default feed is the one that works for me and I recall your cross-post feed ending with atom.
Try setting the URL above as a cross-post feed perhaps.