I figured it out.
As a subscriber the user didn’t have any post privileges.
Thanks that seemed to work, but my previously linked information doesn’t appear to be there anymore.
Was there an update to how the data is pulled from the Database?
Had the same problem, and debugged it.
For my situation i found out that the server that this particular website was running on had allow_url_fopen disabled.
once i changed the php.ini to
allow_url_fopen = 1
it works fine.