LinkedIn is migrating its web app to a new tech stack, which temporarily broke parts of AuthoredUp.

If you've experienced a missing AUP badge or “Create post” issues, LinkedIn has enrolled you as a test user of the new app. For more details, click here.

This update brings an initial fix - restoring the main functionalities:

• AuthoredUp badge is visible on all pages. Your drafts and stats are here!
• You can use AuthoredUp editor to write and publish your posts.

Some parts are still not fixed in this release:

• “Start a post” from AuthoredUp doesn’t yet activate the blue compose mode. (tip: start your posts from LinkedIn)
• Popups (scheduler/settings) can’t be closed by clicking the background yet
• In rare cases, you might see the entire LinkedIn disappear while a popup is open 😨 (no worries! just close it, and it will fix itself)

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THE GOOD NEWS:

Version 6.4.3 with full fixes is ready. 😌 We’re waiting for Chrome Web Store approval to roll it out.

If you notice additional issues, please let us know.

We’ll keep pushing updates until 100% of AuthoredUp is back to normal**.**

Thanks for your patience and trust, we’re on it 24/7 💪

Issue with the extension: Some users don’t see the AuthoredUp badge on LinkedIn’s home feed, and “create new post” is unreliable on other pages.

Root cause

LinkedIn is transitioning their web app to a new technology. They’re rolling out changes gradually (a few percent at first, then more), so the impact varies by account and moment.

What we did so far

We’ve been tracking this for a few weeks, collecting reports, instrumenting checks, and running daily tests. But we couldn’t ship a fix earlier because none of our accounts had the new version. We finally gained access, reproduced the issue, and began coding a workaround immediately.

Plan and timeline

Ship initial partial fixes by the end of the week. Then keep working on it until all functionality is restored. We’ll post updates as we make improvements and expand coverage.

What you can do

• Use the AuthoredUp platform to prepare and format your posts
• To publish: copy your post from platform and paste it into LinkedIn’s native editor as plain text (from right click menu, or by pressing CTRL/CMD + SHIFT + V).
• Do not uninstall the extension; you can still use it to track posts, stats, and saves.

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This kind of platform change is the complexity we handle all the time; usually, we patch before it reaches you. This time we couldn’t until we had access.

We are sorry for the disruption, and thank you for your patience.

We’re on it 24/7 until it’s fully stable again. 🧑‍💻

In this version, we've added the ability to @mention profiles and companies when editing your drafts on the platform. You can select from any of the accounts and pages you've mentioned before in one of your posts. Handy if you often tag familiar people or pages!

You can now also access snapshots from the draft saving badge. If there is a draft conflict, we will show you a text differences screen, similar as in the snapshots menu.

We've also improved the way LinkedIn content gets mirrored to AuthoredUp. This should resolve the issue when you try to edit a scheduled post and are shown a wrong or empty post.

Finally, a PSA:

We are aware that there are still issues with AUP badge not showing up. It seems LinkedIn has introduced further changes, that are only active for some users. Unfortunately, none of us at AuthoredUp can see this variant, so it might take a few days until we figure out how to reproduce and fix the issue. We apologize for the interruption to those users who are affected by this!

We've finally managed to reproduce the extension activation bug, where the green badge would not show up at all. This release introduces a better fix. If you've experienced this issue, please upgrade and give it another try.

We've also fixed a bug where mentions wouldn't work under some circumstances.

Finally,  we've corrected an issue where we'd fail to grab post images and documents.

If you notice any further issues regarding extension activation, let us know and we'll look into it ASAP. 🙏

A few customers have reported AuthoredUp failing to start up at all - missing green badge, doesn't open on starting a post, nothing.

This is very difficult to diagnose, but we suspect this was caused by the changes to LinkedIn page structure that is slowly being rolled out to members. This version introduces mitigations that we hope will improve the situation.

If you notice AuthoredUp extension doesn't start up, please contact support, so we know we need to keep working on this. 🙏