Re-open Meta's page selection on every connect with auth_type=rerequest - #314
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The trap
Create a new Facebook Page, hit "Connect Facebook" — and TryPost silently connects the old Page again. No page picker, no way to reach the new Page from inside the app.
Meta's OAuth dialog reuses the previous grant, including its page selection: once the app has been authorized for one Page, subsequent logins skip the consent screen entirely and
/me/accountskeeps returning only the originally ticked Pages. Disconnecting in TryPost doesn't help, because the grant lives on Meta's side. The only escape is manual surgery in facebook.com → Settings → Business Integrations, which users find only after filing a support ticket (ours did).The fix
Pass
auth_type=rerequeston the OAuth redirect for both Meta flows (Facebook and Instagram-via-Facebook). Meta then re-opens the consent dialog on every connect, with the "Edit settings" page selection available, so adding a newly created Page is just: connect again → tick the Page.The cost is one extra consent screen for users reconnecting an unchanged setup — which is also the screen that tells them what they previously granted, so it's arguably a feature.
Testing
FacebookControllerTest/InstagramFacebookControllerTestpass, with the connect-redirect mock asserting the new parameter. Verified live: withrerequestin place, a freshly created Page shows up in the page selection dialog on the very next connect.