Delayed release time?

[silkstockingslover]

Hi
Is anyone seeing longer delays in release time.

I sent in a lesbian story last Sunday. Never saw such a delay other than in illustrated where i have one from March still pending.

 

[KeithD]

Presumably you mean the Sunday before last. The last Sunday was just yesterday. If so, nope for me. I sent in a GM story on the night of Sunday, October 21nd, and it posted that Tuesday.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Nope. I submitted one on Saturday morning just past and it was up Sunday afternoon.

 

[HeyAll]

I have a theory.

It's that categories with a lot of stories (ie incest, loving wives, etc...) get priority to avoid massive backlogs there.

Meanwhile, lesbian typically has less stories, so they're spread out to avoid droughts of no new stories.

 

[silkstockingslover]

Interesting theory. Makes some sense but a week and a half is ludicrous especially when i try to do one release a week.

Oh well....

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I just submitted on in Sci-Fi, so we'll see how long this one takes.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I just submitted on in Sci-Fi, so we'll see how long this one takes.

This one is going up tonight after midnight. So two days. Thank you Laurel.

 

[PantyLad]

No Problem here

I submitted late Monday night this week (UK Time)and it's up this morning so seems reasonable?

 

[silkstockingslover]

Sigh
Something is wrong for me then

Last story took 11 days
New one is six and counting...

I don’t get it... makes it impossible to plan releases... sigh

I wonder if it is because I’m releasing from the old site... will have to test that next since no one is responding to my actual question.

Jasmine

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Hmmm... Again?

I just submitted one yesterday morning, in Loving Wives, it will go up sometime overnight(tonight).

What category Jasmine?

 

[tomlitilia]

I also had a recently posted story go up in about a day, so no delay for me

 

[RejectReality]

Doubt that, because SR refuses to use the new control panel, and he's already said he's not experiencing delays.

Are you cut-n-pasting to the story text box, or uploading rtf/Word documents? A large part of the delay complaints I've been seeing have been from uploading, rather than cut-n-paste.

Might be a more likely avenue to try, if you're uploading.

Sigh
Something is wrong for me then

Last story took 11 days
New one is six and counting...

I don’t get it... makes it impossible to plan releases... sigh

I wonder if it is because I’m releasing from the old site... will have to test that next since no one is responding to my actual question.

Jasmine

 

[Zeb_Carter]

Doubt that, because SR refuses to use the new control panel, and he's already said he's not experiencing delays.

Are you cut-n-pasting to the story text box, or uploading rtf/Word documents? A large part of the delay complaints I've been seeing have been from uploading, rather than cut-n-paste.

Might be a more likely avenue to try, if you're uploading.

Yes. That would explain delays. I think Laurel has to do the grunt work of doing the cut and paste and then if there is any formatting, like bold, she has to put the tags in manually. I don't believe they have a program to convert a word doc or rtf file to html tagged text.

I put my own tags in while I type, then cut and past into the submission text box.

Tech Tip: If you use <center></center> the tag that replaces that will add a line feed after it. So to avoid that extra white space between the centered text and the next line don't put in the line feed. The tag <p align="center"></p> will put it there for you.

 

[KeithD]

Or don't bother to try to center anything at all. That's not in the basic Lit. across-the-board format. I center my section breaks for the marketplace but I just flush left them on Literotica. No problem and no extra work for anyone.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

I think the replacement happens in the preview.

No work for anyone, automatic.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Doubt that, because SR refuses to use the new control panel, and he's already said he's not experiencing delays.

Are you cut-n-pasting to the story text box, or uploading rtf/Word documents? A large part of the delay complaints I've been seeing have been from uploading, rather than cut-n-paste.

Might be a more likely avenue to try, if you're uploading.

I use the old control panel and text submission rather than a doc. I insert all my own HTML tags and mine go through promptly. I never push any boundaries for content and I guess I’m a known quantity so that might help - content review for me might be cursory.

 

[KeithD]

I think the replacement happens in the preview.

No work for anyone, automatic.

The author had to do extra work to get them centered and centered is not the editorial style in the file's formatting, so extra time was taken on what is just disconcerting formatting for the reader.

 

[SimonDoom]

For the two years I've been posting stories, it's always been the same. About 4 days before publication, unless it's submitted for a contest. Then it has taken as little as 2 hours. I've seen no change in the time it takes to publish in two years.

 

[KeithD]

For twelve years is pretty much been standard timing for me in several different accounts. Cut and pasting in the submissions box and about 85 percent of the time posting two days later.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I've submitted either with .txt or, since the new control panel, .rtf files, and it's always been around three days for me.

 

[TxRad]

Everything I've ever submitted has been a Word file and it is normally three days unless there is a Sunday involved.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Everything I've ever submitted has been a Word file and it is normally three days unless there is a Sunday involved.

That'll be when Laurel's gone to church .

 

[LexxRuthless]

I did have a delay on a recent I/T submission. It took five or six days, while my two submissions since went through in two days. I write everything in Word, but I cut-and-paste for submission. I add the HTML tags while I am writing now, out of habit.

 

[Zeb_Carter]

The author had to do extra work to get them centered and centered is not the editorial style in the file's formatting, so extra time was taken on what is just disconcerting formatting for the reader.

Really? To center things, I just have to type 17 extra characters. After I do that, I just don't put the extra linefeed in, so I save a character there. Of course I also bold it, so that's 7 extra characters.

As far as editorial style here at Lit. They allow bold, italic, underline, and center. Why not use it?

 

[KeithD]

Obviously you can use those if the Web site let's you. That doesn't mean they reflect the Web site's overall format style, mostly followed here to make the file uniform and as nondetracting to readers as possible across the spectrum. And it does require extra steps to use them.