Social Alerts
Testing and troubleshooting
Fire test alerts and diagnose backoff errors.
Test poll#
The dashboard and /social test both force-post the latest known item to the alert channel, bypassing normal init behavior. Great for verifying your alert channel and embed look right.
Backoff behavior#
If a poll fails (rate limit, Cloudflare block, expired token), the watcher enters exponential backoff (2min, 4min, up to 60min max). The failure reason is shown in the dashboard editor. Once a poll succeeds, backoff clears.
YouTube RSS delay#
Not instant
YouTube's RSS feed can lag 5-30 minutes after a video is uploaded. This is a YouTube-side cache and nothing Auditer can shortcut. For real-time YouTube alerts, PubSubHubbub push subscriptions would be needed (not currently implemented).