Remote Category Add Fails with “Not Found” (both forums AP-enabled)

Kadir-Ay-0 what do you mean by “set the ID to 1”?

Sky2023245 adding the remote category does not guarantee that you will receive updates. At least one user from your forum needs to follow the other category as well.

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.

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.

Kadir-Ay-0 can you let me know your config.json please.

{
    "url": "https://forum.ieu.app",
    "secret": "************************",
    "database": "mongo",
    "port": "4567",
    "mongo": {
        "host": "mongo",
        "port": "27017",
        "username": "***********,
        "password": "***********",
        "database": "**********",
        "uri": ""
    }
}

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 testfcategory@forum.ieu.app
doesn’t show up. What could be the reason for this? Also, all permissions for the Fediverse are enabled on both instances.

Kadir-Ay-0 I cannot reveived email verification thats why problems are similer…

Kadir-Ay-0 said in Remote Category Add Fails with “Not Found” (both forums AP-enabled):
> Even when a user follows a specific category, it doesn’t appear in the World search

How was the user follow established if you can’t find the category in /world?

julian

In short, I have two forums: forum.ieu.app and 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 .?