If you are having a lengthy delay in publishing, please add the name of your story and when submitted here.

[EmilyMiller]

preferably tentacled

I may be having Coleoidphilia narrated on a podcast

 

[iwatchus]

I had a brief pleasant exchange with her it late August. I just looked up the date (8/29) I asked her a question a week later that I thought was 50-50 to get a response on, but heard nothing. And that was right when the complaints about pending started to skyrocket.

 

[EmilyMiller]

I had a brief pleasant exchange with her it late August. I just looked up the date (8/29) I asked her a question a week later that I thought was 50-50 to get a response on, but heard nothing. And that was right when the complaints about pending started to skyrocket.

Aug 27th for me.

 

[iwatchus]

To add one more data point to something going wrong end of August/early September, I was just looking at the schedule for the author organized challenges. Every event that completed prior to August 25 is correctly marks as completed. 8/25 and later, nothing has been updated. Yet another aspect of the site that went south at the same time

 

[SkyBubble]

The closest competitor is lushstories with 1 million traffic.

AO3 may have more than that, but it's not all for erotica. In fact, I'd say the majority of it isn't.

 

[SkyBubble]

Can we publish on both sites, or do they require exclusivity? I was thinking about leaving my stories pending here, but submitting them on lush as well. Since I'm new here, I don't know if this is possible.

Lit does not require exclusivity, and neither does Lush or most other site. I have stories on most sites.

Lush doesn't allow celebrity stories (at least not about real celebrities. Your fictional character can be a celebrity.) But there are ways around that. I have a couple of stories there that are about celebs her (and on AO3 and others.) I just took out the last names.

Every site has different rules, but other than one or two small ones, they don't require exclusivity.

 

[SkyBubble]

Technically speaking, this sort of thing create plagiarism issues on site, so if they check plagiarism then it will be flagged by the system. However, you hold all the rights of your content, and you can publish it on any site, so you might have to verify your ownership to the other site if they say it is plagiarized.

Which will be easier if you use the same user name or at least something close enough to be identifiable as the same.

 

[Bazzle]

Just another thought...

If it is just the two of them. How many hours have they had to spend going through all the forum pages and illustrated stories deleting stuff.

It must have been hours and hours?

 

[CherieSin]

Checked my phone this early morning and saw this....

Another case of time reset. I posted this submission yesterday. Here is the screenshot.

This has now happened with all of my last three attempts and all my other stories too. At this point, I’ve basically come to the conclusion that if a story gets stuck, it’s cooked. It’s not going to see the light of day. Four times in a row here, plus three more on top of that with my other submissions, that’s not a coincidence anymore. Did I get shadowbanned or something? Because this is insane.

From what I’ve read, a “time reset” supposedly means someone either changed something in the submission (definitely not me), or it passed through some filter, or even that it got approved but got lost in the void. Honestly, I doubt any of those. It feels like something else entirely, some fault in their fragile system. Wouldn’t even surprise me if it’s their AI-detection losing its mind. But why it’s targeting me specifically? That’s what I don’t get. My other stories were going up fine back in August. Ever since then, everything’s just been getting stuck, with only a few making it through.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Just another thought...

If it is just the two of them. How many hours have they had to spend going through all the forum pages and illustrated stories deleting stuff.

It must have been hours and hours?

But they did that already

 

[EmilyMiller]

Checked my phone this early morning and saw this....
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Another case of time reset. I posted this submission yesterday. Here is the screenshot.
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This has now happened with all of my last three attempts and all my other stories too. At this point, I’ve basically come to the conclusion that if a story gets stuck, it’s cooked. It’s not going to see the light of day. Four times in a row here, plus three more on top of that with my other submissions, that’s not a coincidence anymore. Did I get shadowbanned or something? Because this is insane.

From what I’ve read, a “time reset” supposedly means someone either changed something in the submission (definitely not me), or it passed through some filter, or even that it got approved but got lost in the void. Honestly, I doubt any of those. It feels like something else entirely, some fault in their fragile system. Wouldn’t even surprise me if it’s their AI-detection losing its mind. But why it’s targeting me specifically? That’s what I don’t get. My other stories were going up fine back in August. Ever since then, everything’s just been getting stuck, with only a few making it through.

Sorry to hear

 

[JSWamp]

Which will be easier if you use the same user name or at least something close enough to be identifiable as the same.

Yes, I have the same username in both sites. And I have an author's note in the beginning that informs the reader that the story is on both sites as well. Thank you for the tip!

 

[EmilyMiller]

Guys,

I fully appreciate the frustrations, but can we keep discussion of non-Literotica options to this thread:

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/alternatives.1641862/page-6#post-101630811

Thanks

 

[Bazzle]

But they did that already

Yes, but didn't it happen DURING July/August.

Was that the cause of things falling over?

 

[EmilyMiller]

Yes, but didn't it happen DURING July/August.

Was that the cause of things falling over?

It seems unlikely - can’t see what the systemic connection would be

 

[Bazzle]

It seems unlikely - can’t see what the systemic connection would be

Eyes taken off ball.

 

[SoCalAshley]

Checked my phone this early morning and saw this....
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Another case of time reset. I posted this submission yesterday. Here is the screenshot.
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From what I’ve read, a “time reset” supposedly means someone either changed something in the submission (definitely not me), or it passed through some filter, or even that it got approved but got lost in the void. making it through.

My theory is that Lit has moved to 100% automated story checking. If the story passes based on certain parameters (AI, plagiarism, grammar, length, and other lit rules), it gets published within 3-5 days depending on backlog. That is also the first time stamp. If it fails, the story goes into a pending queue. That is when the time reset occurs. If Laurel is the only one responsible for reading and posting stories that fail the automated test, and she is not okay, then perhaps that is why the backlog exists.

 

[SyleusSnow]

I wonder if their db system is maxed out and they don't have room for more stories. Laurel went and advertised the Halloween contest like nothing was wrong.
I have 2 story edits posted on 9/17 and a new story to go along with them on 10/1. My halloween story should be done by 10/5

Glad I'm not alone. I have an edit submitted Sept 14 that's still waiting.

Last time I submitted an edit (in late July), it took 14 days. That's about average for edits, in my experience.

 

[iwatchus]

I have figured 3 weeks for edits. So yours is not far off from that

 

[EmilyMiller]

Glad I'm not alone. I have an edit submitted Sept 14 that's still waiting.

Last time I submitted an edit (in late July), it took 14 days. That's about average for edits, in my experience.

Edits can take 3 - 4 weeks

 

[SyleusSnow]

Edits can take 3 - 4 weeks

Yes, of course they can... but every edit I've ever submitted took about 2 weeks. Except this latest one.

 

[SmilingLez]

Definitely a CMS bug. Bug report submitted.

 

[Duleigh]

Glad I'm not alone. I have an edit submitted Sept 14 that's still waiting.

Last time I submitted an edit (in late July), it took 14 days. That's about average for edits, in my experience.

Same here. I don't publish a lot of edits solely because they take so long. I'm re-writing a series and instead of editing the stories, I'm submitting them with a different name and deleting the original.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Yes, of course they can... but every edit I've ever submitted took about 2 weeks. Except this latest one.

It’s been taking 3+ weeks for me long before whatever happened in August

 

[Duleigh]

The last story I had published was on 9/14, it was not a contest story and it went up with no problems.