From anonymous submission to a posted Instagram image
Approve a confession and VibeFlow renders it as a 1080×1080 image, schedules it, and publishes to Facebook and Instagram. Here is each step, and the settings that change it.
A confession page is a publishing pipeline pretending to be an inbox. VibeFlow treats it as one. This post follows a single submission from the form to the page, and points out the settings that change what happens along the way.
It arrives
A submission comes in through the page's form with no account and no login. It can carry images (JPG, PNG, HEIC, WEBP, AVIF, TIFF, GIF) and, where the page allows it, a video. Images are optimised and videos compressed after the upload has been accepted, so the person submitting is not left waiting on a progress bar. The submitter is shown a private access key, which withdraws the submission for as long as it has not been published.
It is screened, then it waits for you
Text, images and video are screened automatically as soon as the submission is saved — video frame by frame. A submission that is flagged is marked for the admins' attention and they are notified; one that is not simply waits in the queue. Either way the screening result stays attached to the submission, as evidence for the admin rather than as a verdict. By default nothing is published until an admin approves it.
A page can change that default. With Auto Publish switched on, a submission that passes moderation is published without manual review. It is off unless you turn it on, and it is worth leaving off until you have watched what your own community sends for a few weeks.
It becomes a post
Each page chooses where an approved submission goes: to Facebook and Instagram together, which is the default, or to one of them only.
Instagram needs an image, and a text confession has none, so VibeFlow makes one. The text is rendered as a 1080×1080 image in one of twelve gradient themes, picked at random for each post, which keeps a feed from turning into a wall of one colour. The rendering is done by a real browser engine, which is why Chinese, Tamil, Arabic and Thai text and colour emoji come out as they were typed, and the type is shrunk automatically until the whole confession fits.
Two optional settings shape the caption. Count Post adds a running number as a hashtag — #yourpage1042, then #yourpage1043 — so readers can refer to a post and you can find it again. Include TimeStamp adds the time the submission was received, which matters when a post is published days after it was written.
It goes out now, or later
An approved post can be published immediately or scheduled for a date and time. The calendar lays out everything scheduled and everything already published together, so you can spot a three-day gap, or two posts stacked on the same evening, before your audience does.
Scheduling is also the cheapest moderation tool there is. A post held for a few hours is a post the submitter can still take back, and one a second admin can still read.