New story not posted?

[iwatchus]

This is not a Laurel please approve my story thread. I have a story scheduled to go live today, which usually means around 2AM east coast US time. But it is still sitting in pending, saying "Today" as publication date. I have only been here for less then six months and it was several stories in before I realized that the pending told me when it was approved/would be published.

Has any of the long term folks seen them not release stories? Did anyone else's story scheduled for today not get released? Or get released? Is this a me problem or a Manu problem?

 

[andyshep]

hi im in the uk not a writer but the new stories come out here at 7.30 am its been my morning routine for years now. The last few days its been 8.30 to 9 am but today there is no new stories at all so defo think some thing has gone wrong with the updates

 

[Tomh1966]

mine also.

 

[EmilyMiller]

This is not a Laurel please approve my story thread. I have a story scheduled to go live today, which usually means around 2AM east coast US time. But it is still sitting in pending, saying "Today" as publication date. I have only been here for less then six months and it was several stories in before I realized that the pending told me when it was approved/would be published.

Has any of the long term folks seen them not release stories? Did anyone else's story scheduled for today not get released? Or get released? Is this a me problem or a Manu problem?

It sounds like a glitch in the matrix. Strange stuff sometimes happens. I think a lot of ‘processes’ here are semi-manual. As always, I’d PM Laurel and ask her.

 

[onehitwanda]

+1 on Em's hunch. My day job is software engineering; most of the world runs on undocumented, unknown processes that nameless, forgotten people in cubicles run as part of their daily jobs. Laurel's probably having a sleep in.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Has any of the long term folks seen them not release stories? Did anyone else's story scheduled for today not get released? Or get released? Is this a me problem or a Manu problem?

August is always a bit slow, American summer holidays etc. Or, an upgrade of some sort in the works, maybe?

 

[iwatchus]

Mine just showed up. I was assuming a queue crashed or something. Manu probably checked the health when he woke up and everything is humming again.

 

[iwatchus]

August is always a bit slow, American summer holidays etc. Or, an upgrade of some sort in the works, maybe?

You could be right EB about an upgrade, Wednesday morning in August is probably a good time to do it.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Mine just showed up. I was assuming a queue crashed or something. Manu probably checked the health when he woke up and everything is humming again.

Patience is the best virtue, always!

 

[iwatchus]

Patience is the best virtue, always!

If I don't have it yet, I think I am giving up on waiting for it

 

[M_K_Babalon]

I've said it before, I'll say it again; I use the Ronco™ technique.

I don't pay too much attention after I submit it. I know it's gonna be a day to a week, a few hours on a good day. I think somebody once said they saw the alleged post date change before while pending. I don't gush over stats either, so I don't know what Laurels done until I stumble over to the story site eventually. My grammar and punctuation are decent enough and it's clear folks are 18+, I ain't had nothing sent back in years.

 

[M_K_Babalon]

August is always a bit slow, American summer holidays etc. Or, an upgrade of some sort in the works, maybe?

There's Memorial Day, Labor Day, Independance Day, Fathers Day, Vetrans Day. I always forget some, but there's not a lot and not all are a big deal.

 

[MrPixel]

Apparently my sleeping-in made me miss this party. I also had one queued-up to go live this morning. Not only was it "up", my dependable two-bomber got to it first.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Apparently my sleeping-in made me miss this party. I also had one queued-up to go live this morning. Not only was it "up", my dependable two-bomber got to it first.

Laid a deuce?

 

[MrPixel]

No kidding. I have two followers in my "fan club", which is a real PITA because GS is a low-traffic/low-voting category. It has indeed become a shoulder-shrug at this point. I don't know what I did to upset these guys, but apparently I crossed some sort of line several months ago, and must therefore pay the price.

 

[iwatchus]

My number one friend visited this morning at his usual time, which the delay still left available. It was the very first vote. He had a friend for the seventh vote, but Romance at least gets a high voting rate. Somehow my morning troll missed my BDSM story, which is good because that appears to an even worse category to gets votes in than GS is. My romance story from this morning already has more votes than the BDSM story posted a week ago. I'm happy with the rating, but it is so vulnerable to a downvote.

 

[ShelbyDawn57]

+1 on Em's hunch. My day job is software engineering; most of the world runs on undocumented, unknown processes that nameless, forgotten people in cubicles run as part of their daily jobs. Laurel's probably having a sleep in.

Same. That nameless, forgotten person is quite often me. I find that yesterday Shelby was quite the ditzy bitch more often that I'd care to admit.

 

[Britva415]

This is not a Laurel please approve my story thread. I have a story scheduled to go live today, which usually means around 2AM east coast US time. But it is still sitting in pending, saying "Today" as publication date. I have only been here for less then six months and it was several stories in before I realized that the pending told me when it was approved/would be published.

Has any of the long term folks seen them not release stories? Did anyone else's story scheduled for today not get released? Or get released? Is this a me problem or a Manu problem?

I don't know your time zone, but 12:30am (or 00:30) in the U.S. Eastern Standard time is when publishing "goes live."

So if your time zone is more than three hours "ahead" of that, then, you would have just had to wait until that milestone.

My number one friend visited this morning at his usual time, which the delay still left available. It was the very first vote

Sounds like it did get published after all?

 

[iwatchus]

Yeah, about 5 1/2 hours later than usual. Probably something crashed or Manu was doing an update. Just surprised me. First time I have seen that here.

 

[AH_Mod]

It's a stretch of the imagination to believe any of that exchange was underage. It's even more of a stretch to believe it was intentional. That being said, the argument over it was pushing it into dangerous territory, and it was all off-topic, so it's been removed.