Features — Publishing and recovery
Publishing you can audit
One post aimed at six accounts is six independent deliveries. Each carries its own status, its own error, and its own retry — so one network failing never takes the rest with it.
A post is not one delivery. It is several.
When a post goes to X, two Pages, a LinkedIn account and a Mastodon handle, that is five separate conversations with five separate services, any of which can fail on its own terms. Treating that as a single success-or-failure hides exactly the information you need when something breaks.
postfast keeps one delivery record per target. Each has its own status, its own retry count, the network’s own error message stored verbatim, and — once it lands — the permalink the network gave back. The post as a whole is only called published when every one of its targets is.
What that buys you
Partial failure stays partial
X being unreachable does not stop LinkedIn from publishing. The failure is confined to the target that failed.
Resumable threads
postfast records which parts of a thread the network already accepted. A retry resumes from there instead of reposting the parts that went out — the difference between a retry and a duplicate.
Verbatim errors
What the network said is kept exactly as it said it. A paraphrase is a good way to lose the one detail that explains the failure.
Permalinks recorded
Once a target publishes, the URL it produced is stored against that target, so the published post is one click away.
A real queue
Publishing runs on a background queue with retries and backoff, not on a request that has to stay open until a network answers.
Skipped is its own state
A target that was deliberately not attempted is recorded as skipped, not quietly folded in with the failures.
Common questions
- If one network fails, do I have to re-post to all of them?
- No. Only the failed target is retried. Everything that published stays published, and a retried thread resumes from the part that failed rather than starting over.
- What does postfast record about a published post?
- What it sent, when it sent it, what the network returned verbatim, and the permalink the network gave back — one record per target, so a post to six accounts leaves six.
- How many times is a failed post retried?
- Retries run on a background queue with backoff, and every attempt is counted against that target so you can see how many there have been and what each one hit.
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