New Pinned Thread "Story Pending For More Than 72 Hours."

[ChloeTzang]

For a second there, I was trying to reconceptualize you as your Mother’s uncle, but now I realise that he’s just a fan of your stories.

Alarm bells are still tinkling. I’m thinking that the Halloween comp will be a major stress test - if they’re able to get through such a high profile event okay, maybe there’s hope.

So far Halloween Competition stories seem to be being added with no issues

 

[MissTerriRuss]

I submitted stories, both chapter 2s, at the end of August. They sat in pending for over a month and, I resubmitted because maybe something was wrong. Still been in pending now for 9 days... How long are we waiting?

 

[feel_the_beast]

... How long are we waiting?

That's the really frustrating part of this business. No one can be sure of anything. How long to wait before pulling and resubmitting? Will it work? How long will the resubmitted story sit there? I got lucky, and my resubmitted story was published within 2 days, but others have been less fortunate, for no reason anyone can figure out. It's driving those affected crazy, especially now with this big deal Halloween story contest running.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I submitted stories, both chapter 2s, at the end of August. They sat in pending for over a month and, I resubmitted because maybe something was wrong. Still been in pending now for 9 days... How long are we waiting?

Laurel's message said don't touch/click on it in pending - give it 15 days.

I would say when you hit 15 days in pending, delete it completely and submit as a New Story - add a Note to Admin stating that your story sat in pending from (date) to (date) and as that exceeded the 15 days advised, you are deleting and resubmitting as a New Story.

No point in PM'ing Laurel - she is likely being deluged with PM's on this issue.

Personally, I deleted mine and resubmitted after 7 days and it went thru at that point. It seems only a subset of stories are not making it through,

 

[ChloeTzang]

I just went in and checked and the option to delete a story from Pending or Draft has been removed

 

[Voyeurkenneth]

I just went in and checked and the option to delete a story from Pending or Draft has been removed

Are you sure? I still see it in Draft.

 

[iwatchus]

I still see them as well. You have to click on the gear in the story list to get the option. It is not available by clicking on the story itself.

 

[ChloeTzang]

Are you sure? I still see it in Draft.

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Yep - that was where I was looking and IT'S BACK!!!!!!!!!

 

[Cathartico]

I submitted my story on September 17. That was four weeks ago. Nothing has happened since then, and it is still pending. I've already published 71 stories on Literotica, so I'm not a new author. Publication has taken a week before, but never this long.
From the discussion, I gather the most sensible thing to do at this point would be to delete the story and resubmit it completely. Or should I keep waiting as they currently have a large number of submissions for the Halloween contest to process?

 

[ChloeTzang]

I submitted my story on September 17. That was four weeks ago. Nothing has happened since then, and it is still pending. I've already published 71 stories on Literotica, so I'm not a new author. Publication has taken a week before, but never this long.
From the discussion, I gather the most sensible thing to do at this point would be to delete the story and resubmit it completely. Or should I keep waiting as they currently have a large number of submissions for the Halloween contest to process?

My recommendation after 4 weeks would be delete and resubmit

 

[MissTerriRuss]

3 weeks now after resubmitted...

 

[Cathartico]

I've now deleted the chapter and resubmitted it. Let's see how it goes this time.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I submitted stories, both chapter 2s, at the end of August. They sat in pending for over a month and, I resubmitted because maybe something was wrong. Still been in pending now for 9 days... How long are we waiting?

go to your Control Panel, go to Help, select New Feedback and create a Feedback form - open a Bug Report as well - like I've been saying, the more tickets they get the more visibility for the problem.

Laurel's message said wait 15 days. I would give it that, then Delete completely and put it in AGAIN as a new story submission with a Note to Admin.

 

[ChloeTzang]

3 weeks now after resubmitted...

go to your Control Panel, go to Help, select New Feedback and create a Feedback form - open a Bug Report as well - like I've been saying, the more tickets they get the more visibility for the problem.

 

[ChloeTzang]

I've PM'd Laurel and Manu and asked for some sort of update on the Pending story issue that we can share but Literotica has never been great on communicating on these things. We can but hope.

 

[Saakael]

I don’t know about you, but personally, I’m starting to lose both hope and patience.

I have three stories pending review for over a month now, with no indication of why they haven’t been approved or rejected.

This situation is keeping me from posting the final part of my first story on Literotica and has created a huge delay compared to other platforms, where the last chapter of that same story has been live since September 16.

The site is great and has an amazing reader base, but the lack of communication really kills the enthusiasm…

 

[MissTerriRuss]

I just deleted and resubmitted both stories again yesterday. I'll see how this goes. this time I removed all the em dashes and messed up my grammar a bit because it may be an AI filter issue?

 

[feel_the_beast]

because it may be an AI filter issue?

I don't think there's any evidence that any particular attribute of a story makes it more or less likely to get stuck in limbo. Lots of stories still being published daily, so it seems to be just a random glitch.

 

[MuscularNudity]

What are these idiots doing? I've had a story pending for ten days now

 

[minoda]

Laurel's message said don't touch/click on it in pending - give it 15 days.

I would say when you hit 15 days in pending, delete it completely and submit as a New Story - add a Note to Admin stating that your story sat in pending from (date) to (date) and as that exceeded the 15 days advised, you are deleting and resubmitting as a New Story.

No point in PM'ing Laurel - she is likely being deluged with PM's on this issue.

Personally, I deleted mine and resubmitted after 7 days and it went thru at that point. It seems only a subset of stories are not making it through,

Maybe they should address the issue. It's been like this over a year. It used to be simple within 72 hours I would have my stories published, now it's pretty consistent they're stuck pending for long periods. I have a decent body of work and generally rated well.

Been using this site over 20 years, but the problems publishing are pushing me to find alternatives.