Forum / Maneuvering on the Board

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  Joani Reese

  Jul 14, 10:15pm

  I just posted a poem, "Vignette for Spring," to the board about five minutes ago and couldn't find it. I finally scrolled through the last day's stories and found it posted far down the list, stating it was posted 45 hours ago. How is this possible? Confused...

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  Susan Tepper

  Jul 15, 12:57am

  Joani, I think the system is a bit off kilter, but I found your poem and it's beautiful.

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  Joani Reese

  Jul 15, 02:17am

  Thank you, Susan. I write so slowly, I have to be careful with my postings, or I'll run out of material, so it was especially disconcerting to post the piece and have it disappear into empty rooms below the party. I appreciate that you hunted it down, but I still can't figure out how that happened. Deus ex machina?

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  James Lloyd Davis

  Jul 15, 03:55am

  Joani ... that happened to me once when I created a piece in Fictionaut, but did not post it right away. I saved it to edit again and 'published' it a day later. The time it was first saved was when it queued sequentially with stories that were published, so that when I finally 'published', it was already off the board.

  I believe that when you create a story in Fictionaut, the time of first save, becomes the publication time whether you publish for people to see or not, so it's best to create a story at the time you are ready to publish on the board. If you wait to publish it, it will age as though you had.

  Does that make sense?

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  Joani Reese

  Jul 15, 01:42pm

  Yes, James. It makes perfect sense, and that's exactly what happened. This is indeed a place of immediate gratification, or nothing. Thanks for your experienced wisdom.

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  Meg Tuite

  Jul 15, 04:56pm

  Going to look for your poem, Joani!!! I've had problems posting my stories, as well. Somehow they appear and I have no idea how???

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