This week: post-now gates and clearer LinkedIn dry-run truthfulness

This week I shipped a tighter way to control when git-to-market posts go live and improved how LinkedIn dry-runs show what will actually publish. If you want fewer accidental posts and a dry-run you can trust, these changes cut the manual checks you used to do.

What shipped

• –A "post-now" gating option so you can pause automatic posting for a commit and release it only when you decide. That means you can keep committing frequently without every small change immediately broadcasting to your feeds.
• –LinkedIn dry-run previews now show the real text that will publish, including any truncation or formatting differences. You can see what will appear on LinkedIn before it goes out instead of guessing from the blog preview.
• –Better error surfacing for failed posts. Instead of silent failures, you now get clear notices about why a post didn’t publish and how to retry or fix it.

Why it matters

These updates reduce the friction of building in public. You no longer need to edit commits to avoid noisy posts, or manually check LinkedIn after each publish. The post-now gate gives you a simple safety valve when a commit is behind a feature flag or you want to bundle multiple commits into one public update.

Clearer dry-run truthfulness saves time and embarrassment. LinkedIn formats differently from other platforms; seeing the exact LinkedIn output before publish prevents surprises and keeps your professional feed tidy. And when something does fail, the new errors point to the root cause so you can act quickly rather than guessing.

What's next

I'll refine the post gating UI to make saving drafts and scheduling grouped releases easier. I’m also collecting user examples of formatting edge cases on LinkedIn so the dry-run can mimic more post types. If you run into a specific LinkedIn formatting case or an error you want prioritized, reply to this note and I’ll look at it this week.

Related reading

[This week: post gates, clearer LinkedIn dry-run previews](https://gittomarket.io/w/gittomarket/this-week-post-gates-clearer-linkedin-dry-run-previews)

[This week: clearer LinkedIn previews and smarter post gates](https://gittomarket.io/w/gittomarket/this-week-clearer-linkedin-previews-and-smarter-post-gates-2)

[This week: clearer LinkedIn previews and smarter post gates](https://gittomarket.io/w/gittomarket/this-week-clearer-linkedin-previews-and-smarter-post-gates)