Okay, time for an official to weigh in on feeds

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Let me start with an incidental:

Either I found a copy/paste artifact on line 6 of layouts/list.archivejson.json of the blank (and therefore base) template or I have lost my mind.

"feed_url": "{{ .Site.BaseURL }}photos/index.json"

Okay, the meat. I have come to the point where I need someone inside the black box to tell me why creating a custom JSON output is not working. I mirrored the PhotosJSON target (which seemed like a good idea as the copy/past artifact would indicate that you did as well).

I totally have a valid file at https://moondeer.blog/photos/index.json.

I totally have a valid file at https://moondeer.blog/archive/index.json.

So ā€¦ why TF do I have no valid file at https://moondeer.blog/crossing/index.json?

Here comes the relevant file code:

My customized config.json (which, just to be sure I was dotting all the 'iā€™s, is a full copy of the blank theme config.json with some falses set to trues, pagination set to 10, and the mirrored output format, additional format added to home.

{
    "title": "[TITLE]",
    "author": {
    	"name": "[FULL_NAME]",
    	"avatar": "https://micro.blog/[USERNAME]/avatar.jpg",
    	"username": "[USERNAME]"
    },
    "baseURL": "[SCHEME]://[HOSTNAME]/",
	"mediaTypes": {
		"application/json": {
			"suffixes": [ "json" ]
		}
	},
	"outputFormats": {
		"RSS": {
			"baseName": "feed"
		},
		"JSON": {
			"baseName": "feed"
		},
		"RSD": {
			"mediaType": "application/xml",
			"baseName": "rsd",
			"isPlainText": true,
			"notAlternative": true
		},
		"ArchiveHTML": {
			"mediaType": "text/html",
			"path": "archive",
			"baseName": "index",
			"isPlainText": false,
			"notAlternative": true
		},
		"ArchiveJSON": {
			"mediaType": "application/json",
			"path": "archive",
			"baseName": "index",
			"isPlainText": true,
			"notAlternative": true
		},
      "CrossingJSON": {
          "mediaType": "application/json",
          "path": "crossing",
          "baseName": "index",
          "isPlainText": true,
          "notAlternative": true        
      },
	 "PhotosHTML": {
			"mediaType": "text/html",
			"path": "photos",
			"baseName": "index",
			"isPlainText": false,
			"notAlternative": true
		},
		"PhotosJSON": {
			"mediaType": "application/json",
			"path": "photos",
			"baseName": "index",
			"isPlainText": true,
			"notAlternative": true
		},
		"PodcastXML": {
			"mediaType": "application/rss+xml",
			"baseName": "podcast",
			"isPlainText": true,
			"notAlternative": true
		},
		"PodcastJSON": {
			"mediaType": "application/json",
			"baseName": "podcast",
			"isPlainText": true,
			"notAlternative": true
		}
	},
	"outputs": {
		"home": [ "HTML", "RSS", "JSON", "RSD", "ArchiveHTML", "ArchiveJSON", "PhotosJSON", "PodcastXML", "PodcastJSON", "CrossingJSON" ],
		"page": [ "HTML" ],
		"section": [ "HTML" ],
		"taxonomy": [ "HTML", "RSS", "JSON" ],
		"taxonomyTerm": [ "HTML", "RSS", "JSON" ]
	},
	"taxonomies": {
		"category": "categories"
	},	
	"rssLimit": 25,
	"uglyURLs": false,
	"blackfriday": {
		"fractions": false
	},
	"enableRobotsTXT": true,
	"languageCode": "[LANGUAGE]",
	"paginate": 10,
	"params": {
		"description": "<a href=\"https://micro.blog/[USERNAME]\">@[USERNAME]</a>",
		"itunes_description": "[ITUNES_DESCRIPTION]",
		"itunes_category": "[ITUNES_CATEGORY]",
		"itunes_subcategory": "[ITUNES_SUBCATEGORY]",
		"itunes_author": "[ITUNES_AUTHOR]",
		"itunes_email": "[ITUNES_EMAIL]",
		"itunes_cover": "[ITUNES_COVER]",
		"twitter_username": "[TWITTER_USERNAME]",
		"github_username": "[GITHUB_USERNAME]",
		"instagram_username": "[INSTAGRAM_USERNAME]",
		"site_id": "[SITE_ID]",
		"paginate_home": true,
		"paginate_categories": true,
		"paginate_replies": false,
		"theme_seconds": "0",
		"plugins_css": [],
		"plugins_js": [],
		"plugins_html": []
	}
}

and here is the template for the custom target: layouts/list.crossingjson.json. It is literally a copy/past of layouts/list.archivejson.json with (ironically) photos swapped out for crossing.

{
	"version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1",
	"title": {{ .Site.Title | jsonify }},
	"icon": "{{ .Site.Author.avatar }}",
	"home_page_url": "{{ .Site.BaseURL }}",
	"feed_url": "{{ .Site.BaseURL }}crossing/index.json",
	"items": [
		{{- $list := (where .Site.Pages "Type" "post") -}}
		{{- $len := (len $list) -}}
		{{ range $index, $value := $list }}
			{
				"id": "{{ .Permalink }}",
				"title": {{ .Title | jsonify }},
				"content_text": {{ .Summary | truncate 100 | jsonify }},
				"date_published": "{{ .Date.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00" }}",
				"url": "{{ .Permalink }}"
			}
			{{- if ne (add $index 1) $len -}},{{- end -}}
		{{ end }}
	]
}

All I need is a fix for getting the template generating a file or to be told to give up. The goal is to be selective about what is being cross-posted to other sites. The only feed I can get to do anything is https://moondeer.blog/feed.json. Adding a valid category-specific RSS feed does not appear to actually generate any cross-posting activity.

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