Lit is on auto pilot?

[alohadave]

It's happened more than twice. It was probably a decade ago that I first heard someone report it. Probably some sort of failure to load issue. Like when you finish watching a video on Youtube, go on to another, and the comments from the previous video are there instead of the one you're viewing. It's another rare glitch that's nearly impossible to track down because it's so rare.

The last one I remember from a while back, Laurel corrected the problem once alerted to it, made it new again in the system, and put it near the top of the new list.

I've seen people report the issue here a couple times in the last 2-3 years. From what I understand, Laurel can fix it pretty easily when she's alerted to it.

 

[SimonDoom]

249 stories were published today. That's the highest number I've ever counted, and it's a lot more than the roughly 175 or so that's been the average I've counted over the last two months. I don't know what it means, but I thought I would point it out.

 

[Kelliezgirl]

249 stories were published today. That's the highest number I've ever counted, and it's a lot more than the roughly 175 or so that's been the average I've counted over the last two months. I don't know what it means, but I thought I would point it out.

Nature is healing, no drama necessary.

 

[PennameWombat]

How many unique active authors do you think there are on lit right now? Not stories per day (seeing as the same author can post multiple stories/poems/audios/story games in the same day), but authors. Does anyone on the forum have an idea of this.

I also don't know - when did story games start? I wonder if this could be part of things? I'm looking at them and thinking about basic decision tree models from various other things I've worked on and they can be a MESS to troubleshoot. Are they new? I'm too new to know.

Consider that many active authors only publish a couple of times a year. The 200-300 stories a day means nothing. I'd spitball a minimum of 10,000 'active' authors over two years.

249 stories were published today. That's the highest number I've ever counted, and it's a lot more than the roughly 175 or so that's been the average I've counted over the last two months. I don't know what it means, but I thought I would point it out.

It's just a snapshot, and an old one at that - Nov. 9-10, 2024 - when I did this exercise. It's unfortunately not well automated, and I don't have time to redo at the moment. But those two days...

Total stories posted: 374
Unique authors: 271 (note: unique author names, if an author was posting under two different accounts, oh well.)
Authors with 4 stories: 3
Authors with 3 stories: 10
Authors with 2 stories: 74
Authors with 1 story: 184

According to the Forum front page, at this moment 291 accounts are 'active', 1210 guest (anonymous) users.

If we posit 150 new stories posted per day (low for the latest, but within range of averages when I've looked at this before), keeping the above ratio, that's about 110 authors. But without longer term date, hard to state an average number of submissions per 'active' author. Anyway, the above pace is 68,000 stores in a year, which would give us 40,000 - 50,000 authors, depending on how 'active' they are, if the two days I recorded are 'average.'

 

[TheNovelist2000]

Well, my latest story went through in a day, while the two stories that have been stuck since September are still stuck. If there is a “trusted list,” it’s definitely not a list of authors. Maybe Laurel started using AI for whatever is going on in her life, and the stories that aren’t cleared by the AI might be the ones that get held up.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Maybe one of the data scrapers her could tally the number of authors who have had at least one story published in the last 12-24 months.


Which may be less that the number who have submitted at least one.

 

[SimonDoom]

For some reason this thread made me think of the auto pilot in the movie Airplane.

 

[Bamagan]

249 stories were published today.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

It's happened more than twice. It was probably a decade ago that I first heard someone report it. Probably some sort of failure to load issue. Like when you finish watching a video on Youtube, go on to another, and the comments from the previous video are there instead of the one you're viewing. It's another rare glitch that's nearly impossible to track down because it's so rare.

The last one I remember from a while back, Laurel corrected the problem once alerted to it, made it new again in the system, and put it near the top of the new list.

Yeah, I remember that happening past year or two, maybe.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

One thing I haven't seen brought up, that could probably help alleviate these submission issues is closing submissions for a bit, and reducing times, at least until things are sorted. Could probably be done by region, so that there isn't a mass inflow once it's opened back up, basically shifting the problem to a later date. Of course Laurel being the mad woman she is, most likely wouldn't go for it—maybe it's a masochist kink of hers.

Which actually, as I typed that, gave me a thought; folks feel one way or the other about us golden children who's stuff usually goes up right away. It's like when I go to the gas station(there's like two actually), and the employee already has my smokes ready for when I check out, or already knows what to get, when I say "a pack of smokes". At the end of the day, even with all the "proof", it's damn near theory this is a thing, but if she knows what to expect from experience, it happens. All that is, is meeting submission requirements. If that's all it is, then it honestly probably makes less work for her.

 

[iwatchus]

Which actually, as I typed that, gave me a thought; folks feel one way or the other about us golden children who's stuff usually goes up right away. It's like when I go to the gas station(there's like two actually), and the employee already has my smokes ready for when I check out, or already knows what to get, when I say "a pack of smokes". At the end of the day, even with all the "proof", it's damn near theory this is a thing, but if she knows what to expect from experience, it happens. All that is, is meeting submission requirements. If that's all it is, then it honestly probably makes less work for her.

I had a restaurant I went to regularly and always got the same thing. Some days it would come out less than a minute after I ordered. The chef would be see me come in and start cooking. I do think predictability is the thing with the white listing. She can pretty much give a pass to stories she is pretty confident are okay.