I’ve updated the relay server back end to properly support wordpress clients pushing content to the relay. If you have a server you wouldn’t mind pointing at the relay, I’d love to get some more sites on it to test it out.

The address is: https://relay.argentwolf.org

If you have any issues, please let me know at alan@friendica.argentwolf.org thanks!

If you are interested in trying the server out, you can get it here. Version 2.4.0 is in testing and will be released soon!

https://github.com/thystra/Activity-Relay

@alan@www.wolfandraven.blog hmm, NodeBB can't seem to subscribe to your relay, though I can't tell whether it's due to your end or mine

Regressions do occur so most likely it's on my end.

I’ve updated the relay to rc6-2, which may have resolved the issue. Once you try again, please let me know!

@alan@www.wolfandraven.blog yeah, I'm attempting subscription from activitypub.space, it looks like the follow is sent through but the Accept fails signature verification... maybe.

Last attempt was 23:06 EDT or so

Just from another server (bb.devnull.land) :

2026-07-28T03:17:41.391Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/send] Successfully sent Follow to https://relay.argentwolf.org/inbox
2026-07-28T03:17:41.412Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Starting signature verification...
2026-07-28T03:17:41.413Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Signature verification failed.
2026-07-28T03:17:41.414Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [middleware/activitypub] HTTP signature verification failed.
2026-07-28T03:17:42.942Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Starting signature verification...
2026-07-28T03:17:42.944Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Signature verification failed.
2026-07-28T03:17:42.945Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [middleware/activitypub] HTTP signature verification failed.
2026-07-28T03:17:45.462Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Starting signature verification...
2026-07-28T03:17:45.464Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [activitypub/verify] Signature verification failed.
2026-07-28T03:17:45.465Z [4567/175118] - verbose: [middleware/activitypub] HTTP signature verification failed.

Log's pretty vague, but maybe that helps. I'll try to find another relay running ActivityRelay to test. Might be an incompatibility with that style entirely, who knows.

Sadly no dice, but I will try again with some better logging in the morning. I'm curious to see what your Accept looks like <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f937.png?v=c7cc56fe415" title="" /> but I guess if it's failing signature validation then it's not even getting to that part.

@julian It looks like it worked to me.
bb.devnull.land shows as subscribed to the relay on relay.argentwolf.org.

But I see it's gone now.

The relay now accepts the NodeBB server actor, but both its outbound Accept and reciprocal Follow received HTTP 400, after which NodeBB sent Undo(Follow). Could you send the verbose bb.devnull.land logs from 2026-07-28 03:57:37 through 03:58:25 UTC, especially any activitypub/verify, middleware/activitypub, dispatcher, schema-validation, or inbox error lines? Also please include the exact NodeBB version.

I did, yes. I think the Follow is sent and now correctly processed by your relay, but the Accept that it sends back is not signed correctly. I will attempt to debug.

@alan@friendica.argentwolf.org well, good news, I'm now a follower... but bad news, that's not right behaviour on my end, so that's firmly on me <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://activitypub.space/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f613.png?v=c7cc56fe415" title="" />

But at least it sounds like I'm able to receive your activities now!