***Recently, I have been upgrading and updating the features at my own [social network](https://www.ureka.org), Ureka. I thought it would be a relatively simple task to add the ability to cross-post to other networks, I was mistaken!***

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I just want Ureka's users to be able to opt to post to other networks as they post to Ureka, so that they don't need to write the same post multiple times and also to make using Ureka more attractive, since most people are entrenched in a main network they use and don't want to leave.

I got Ureka connected to Twitter painlessly and it all works as expected. I can post a shout to Ureka and choose to cross-post it to Twitter, no problem. I then tried to do this for Facebook and hit a snag.. They have a manual authorisation process for such things and any app that wants to use Facebook's remote API has to provide a screencast of what they want to do, why - who benefits and a bunch of other information. This is then reviewed and the app is tested. As occurs in literally every example of me interacting with Facebook's support team, their response was not specific or clear enough for me to understand what the issue is and unable to take action to improve anything.

It appears that maybe they haven't authorised Ureka because I wasn't able to demonstrate how 'value' would be added to the user's experience by Ureka using Facebook - however, I cannot do that because Ureka isn't authorised to access Facebook yet! It's katch 22.

I was then pointed to the fact that Twitter can forward posts automatically to Facebook via their own app.. So I figured that might be the best solution. It turns out, though, that despite Twitter's own documentation describing how to do this - the connection app doesn't work and after a few times reloading Twitter's apps page, the option for the app disappeared altogether. I'm not sure if this is a bug or that they cancelled the app and didn't remove it properly. I've seen mixed comments on that online.

Next up, I thought I would use Steem - that should be straightforward - I thought. I started reading about Steemconnect's methods and knowing that many other sites have successfully used it to authorise accounts on the Steem blockchain, I figured it would be fairly painless. In fact, though, I logged in to Steem connect's dashboard and attempted to follow the guidelines, but as with Twitter and Facebook, the guidelines are not clear at all. After accidentally replacing the description and icon for my own user account on Steem, I managed to get an app created for @ureka, but their dashboard hasn't given me any keys for it and appears to be broken. So I can't do any more there for now!

Finally, I thought I'd look at Gab.com. I know they have an API for doing these things, so I started following their guidelines. "Go to the developer apps' page in your settings in gab".. Ok.. Except, there isn't a page with that name and nothing like it! No help is available online and Gab is still under sustained DDOS attack!

So much for 'social' networks! lol

Wishing you well,
Ura Soul
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