A 202 from IndexNow does not mean your URLs were accepted. If your site is on a subpath, the default key lookup 404s and you get silently rejected — while one endpoint keeps cheerfully returning success.
I have a small static site on GitHub Pages. It is served from a project subpath:
https://shantj.github.io/sproutguard/
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