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update docs for #611 (can't distinguish private vs public for some fa…
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…cebook photos)

also remove some outdated FAQs
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snarfed committed Jan 25, 2016
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handles all Instagram photos and comments. If your Instagram account is private,
don't sign it up for Bridgy!
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<li>Facebook's API isn't great about this either.
<a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/611">Sometimes it doesn't give
us enough information to tell whether a post is public or private.</a> When that
happens, we have to default to assuming it's not public, which means we
occasionally miss posts (usually photos) that look public inside Facebook.
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<li>Is it on an older post? Bridgy only looks at your 50 most recent posts. It
doesn't go back arbitrarily far because that doesn't scale. You can get around
this for an individual response by
<a href="http://indiewebcamp.com/webmention#How_to_Test_Webmentions">sending a
webmention manually</a>. <a href="#source-urls">Here's how to
construct the source URL.</a>
</li>
<li>Is it a tweet with more than 25 favorites? Twitter favorites are
<a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/73">currently limited to 25
per tweet</a>. This is an unfortunate result of the fact that
<a href="https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/661">Twitter's API doesn't expose
favorites by tweet</a>. Bridgy gets around that by
<a href="https://github.com/snarfed/bridgy/issues/61">scraping them from the
tweet's HTML</a>, which works okay, but only for the first 25. Sadface.
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<li>Is it a Twitter @-reply? Does it
<a href="https://support.twitter.com/articles/14023-what-are-replies-and-mentions">@-mention</a>
you? Twitter's API
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and then it may not be able to find one of your replies, which means Bridgy will
miss it. Sadface.
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<li>Is it a Facebook RSVP? If you signed up for Bridgy before RSVP support was
added, your Facebook account access may not include events and RSVPs. Try
<a href="/">signing up with Facebook</a> again.
</li>
<li>Are you using a <a href="#link">syndication link</a>? If so, Bridgy may have
fetched your post before you added that link. When that happens, Bridgy waits up
to two hours before it refetches your post and reloads syndication links, even
if you manually poll before then. Check back in two hours or so.
fetched your post before you added the link. When that happens, Bridgy waits up
to two hours before it refetches your post and reloads syndication links. Try
clicking the <em>Crawl now</em> button on your user page.
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