Platform Changes

This tag covers changes made by third-party platforms — Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Pinterest, VKontakte — that affect what PostRSS and similar automation tools can do, as distinct from changes PostRSS makes to its own product. The most significant example covered here is Meta's April 2024 discontinuation of third-party app support for Facebook Groups, which ended automated posting to Groups industry-wide, not just for PostRSS specifically. Articles here track how PostRSS's supported features have had to adapt to platform-side API and policy changes over time, and what alternatives exist when a previously-supported capability gets removed. This tag is useful for readers troubleshooting a feature that used to work and no longer does, since the cause is often a platform-side change rather than a PostRSS-specific issue. Expect explanations of what changed, why, and what to do about it.