Discourse auto-posting is repeating for old blog posts #54

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2026-10-05T05:11:46+02:00

adam commented

2026-10-05 05:11:46 +02:00

Looks like despite our best efforts, the system blog bot posted for every blog post in the switchover. Good news is the bot was muted 😊

Opening this issue to see how to proceed after ...

Initial burst of forum posts stops
We post a few new blog posts and watch the bot react

Most likely we can just switch the bot back on at that point, but TBD.

Looks like despite our best efforts, the `system` blog bot posted for every blog post in the switchover. Good news is the bot was muted 😊 Opening this issue to see how to proceed after ... - Initial burst of forum posts stops - We post a few _new_ blog posts and watch the bot react Most likely we can just switch the bot back on at that point, but TBD.

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2026-10-05 05:11:46 +02:00

adam commented

2026-10-05 05:11:47 +02:00

Looks like the bot backlog is cleared - now just waiting to see how it behaves the next time we publish a post. The next weekly newsletter should go out in the next day or two; I'll keep an eye on this.

Looks like the bot backlog is cleared - now just waiting to see how it behaves the next time we publish a post. The next weekly newsletter should go out in the next day or two; I'll keep an eye on this.

adam commented

2026-10-05 05:11:48 +02:00

@zebateira -- I'm afraid I need to ask for your help on this one, as the auto-posting isn't stopping. Have sent you an invite to the Discourse board; please let me know when you're in and I'll get you set up as an admin for the hopes of digging deeper. 🙏

@zebateira -- I'm afraid I need to ask for your help on this one, as the auto-posting isn't stopping. Have sent you an invite to the Discourse board; please let me know when you're in and I'll get you set up as an admin for the hopes of digging deeper. 🙏

adam commented

2026-10-05 05:11:49 +02:00

@jessicaschilling I'm in 👍

@jessicaschilling I'm in 👍

adam commented

2026-10-05 05:11:50 +02:00

@lidel said:

In the past we used http://ipfs.io/blog but then moved to http://blog.ipfs.io and old website had code that adjusted the canonical link for comments based on post publication date. New website did not port this logic, and that is why visiting old posts created new topics.
Note that this not just us testing, but also google and other bot crawlers.
Every page will be visited eventually, all missing topics will get created, and then things will calm down.
Backporting old logic would would stop topic creation, but at this point i dont think its worth it – mess already hapepned, and there is a finite number of blogposts, so its better to let them be created and dont add any complexity to the new blog website.

Said logic is here: https://github.com/ipfs-inactive/blog/blob/616abde2224569f2b0a010117da7ccada44fb109/layouts/post/single.html#L25

@jessicaschilling ok to let it go through all the posts (unlisted, no public spamming) so it will stop doing it by itself?

@lidel said: > In the past we used http://ipfs.io/blog but then moved to http://blog.ipfs.io and old website had code that adjusted the canonical link for comments based on post publication date. New website did not port this logic, and that is why visiting old posts created new topics. > Note that this not just us testing, but also google and other bot crawlers. > Every page will be visited eventually, all missing topics will get created, and then things will calm down. > Backporting old logic would would stop topic creation, but at this point i dont think its worth it – mess already hapepned, and there is a finite number of blogposts, so its better to let them be created and dont add any complexity to the new blog website. Said logic is here: https://github.com/ipfs-inactive/blog/blob/616abde2224569f2b0a010117da7ccada44fb109/layouts/post/single.html#L25 @jessicaschilling ok to let it go through all the posts (unlisted, no public spamming) so it will stop doing it by itself?

adam commented

2026-10-05 05:11:50 +02:00

the other alternative would be to port the logic and then delete the new created posts.

the other alternative would be to port the logic and then delete the new created posts.

adam commented

2026-10-05 05:11:51 +02:00

This makes more sense, thank you for looking in to it. 😊
I could also just make a pot of coffee and open every blog post to force the issue (though I believe discourse rate limits pretty hard - might need to break this up into a bunch of cups of coffee rather than a whole pot at once).

This makes more sense, thank you for looking in to it. 😊 I could also just make a pot of coffee and open every blog post to force the issue (though I believe discourse rate limits pretty hard - might need to break this up into a bunch of cups of coffee rather than a whole pot at once).

adam commented

2026-10-05 05:11:52 +02:00

Looks like this has died down — I turned off the auto-mute feature in Discourse for blog posts.

cc @hsanjuan for visibility, as I believe he was the one who initially auto-muted that category.

Looks like this has died down — I turned off the auto-mute feature in Discourse for blog posts. cc @hsanjuan for visibility, as I believe he was the one who initially auto-muted that category.

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