Edited stories disappeared from Pending, but the works were not changed.

[inka]

I submitted edits for 7 stories submitted for publishing on 8/24 and 8/25.
One edit to a standalone story that is not part of a series, and 6 edits to stories in a series.
2 of the edits were removed from my pending list yesterday (10/7), but the edited works did not appear to be published - nothing is in the Sent Back section.
I checked again this morning, and the edits have not been published.
The other 5 works that were pending with EDITED after their title have now also been removed from the Pending folder.
No edits have been published.

Did the Pending/publish process time out after 44 days?
Is there more to the process, and the edits will publish in a few days? Or were they removed without explanation?
Should I delete the works that need edits, and resubmit them as new stories?

 

[PennyThompson]

I submitted edits for 7 stories submitted for publishing on 8/24 and 8/25.

That's a bonkers number of edits, TBH. Because it takes so long for edits to go through, and because the site owner (as far as we can tell) has to manually make each of those edits to those stories one at a time, it's really better to try harder with proof reading before publishing in the first place, and accept minor typos or whatever and move on.

Personally I've only ever submitted story edits when I had a major HTML error that was causing large chunks of a story to render incorrectly.

Is there more to the process, and the edits will publish in a few days? Or were they removed without explanation?

Different parts of the site seem to be refreshed/updated on different schedules, so it's possible it could take a day or two to appear? I would also clear your browser cache, because if you've been obsessively checking your story pages to look for edits your web browser might be holding onto old cached versions of those pages.

Should I delete the works that need edits, and resubmit them as new stories?

If you do that, you'll lose all of your stories' views, ratings, reader favorites, and reader comments.

And personally if I were the site owner, I would start to get pretty annoyed at a user who was constantly deleting, editing, and reuploading the same stories over and over, and I very well might stop prioritizing their work

You don't need to obsess over your old stories like this, each one is an opportunity for growth and learning, move forward!

 

[inka]

That's a bonkers number of edits, TBH. Because it takes so long for edits to go through, and because the site owner (as far as we can tell) has to manually make each of those edits to those stories one at a time, it's really better to try harder with proof reading before publishing in the first place, and accept minor typos or whatever and move on.

Agreed, it is a lot to submit for edits. The stories I submitted edits on in the series were nearly 20 years old. I recently revisited the series, revised, and completed the work.
I became - imo - a better writer in those years however, and on top of correcting the annoying typos and grammatical errors, there were minor changes to the storyline that helped the overall flow. These were not picky edits.

Different parts of the site seem to be refreshed/updated on different schedules, so it's possible it could take a day or two to appear? I would also clear your browser cache, because if you've been obsessively checking your story pages to look for edits your web browser might be holding onto old cached versions of those pages.

I'll hold, for now. And consider my options while I continue posting the new content to the site.

And personally if I were the site owner, I would start to get pretty annoyed at a user who was constantly deleting, editing, and reuploading the same stories over and over, and I very well might stop prioritizing their work

Noted. Though unnecessary to point out, in my case. Before the great edit flood of august of '25, I have only ever submitted a single edit to any work posted here, about a decade ago.

Thank you for your suggestions and advise.

 

[MK_Whimsy]

That's a bonkers number of edits, TBH. Because it takes so long for edits to go through, and because the site owner (as far as we can tell) has to manually make each of those edits to those stories one at a time, it's really better to try harder with proof reading before publishing in the first place, and accept minor typos or whatever and move on.

I think it would be worth aligning on how many edits is too many? To my knowledge, the site itself doesn't say anything regarding this.

From the FAQ: "If you need to update your story after it’s been published - to fix a typo, improve a sentence, clarify a scenario, or any other reason - that’s no problem!" It's reasonable to infer from this that you can make as many edits as you want.

If this became a problem, I imagine the site owners would set additional guidelines around it or give some kind of pushback. But I just haven't seen that, and personally, I favor clearly-outlined policies over trying to "guess" what everyone may be thinking.

What are your thoughts?

 

[PennyThompson]

I think it would be worth aligning on how many edits is too many? To my knowledge, the site itself doesn't say anything regarding this.

From the FAQ: "If you need to update your story after it’s been published - to fix a typo, improve a sentence, clarify a scenario, or any other reason - that’s no problem!" It's reasonable to infer from this that you can make as many edits as you want.

If this became a problem, I imagine the site owners would set additional guidelines around it or give some kind of pushback. But I just haven't seen that, and personally, I favor clearly-outlined policies over trying to "guess" what everyone may be thinking.

What are your thoughts?

I'm just making some assumptions based on my own experiences, so I could be totally wrong!

But given how low Lit seems to prioritize story edits in the publishing queue -- they seem to take between three and six weeks to get processed -- it makes me think that Laurel and Co don't see them as an important part of the writing workflow

But you're right, Lit is frustratingly vague about a lot of things. I would love to just give Laurel a written interview and get into her head about a few things!

 

[ChloeTzang]

Try centralizing on this thread to keep it all in one place

https://forum.literotica.com/thread...story-and-when-submitted-here.1641620/page-10

 

[inka]

Update: The edits appear to have gone through! It took two days after they vanished from the Pending list to update however. Just glad that they are not lost to the ether!

 

[inka]

Correction...the first page of the edited works has gone up. The additional page(s) are the original... that's not good at all. Maybe I just caught it mid process, I'll give it another day.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Correction...the first page of the edited works has gone up. The additional page(s) are the original... that's not good at all. Maybe I just caught it mid process, I'll give it another day.

If not, let us know on that link I posted. There IS a link for reporting bugs and THAT would be a bug for sure, and we should report it as one.