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[iwatchus]

Apropos some of the optimistic talk that sounded more like wishful thinking to me.

The number of published stories for the weekend - the most active reading period, and usually the part of the week when Lit used to publish the most stories in one day:

Friday: around 160
Saturday: around 175
Sunday: around 210

Once again, this is far below Lit's output in spring and early summer, or even before that. So either the number of submissions has dropped sharply since the summer, or Lit still isn't functioning the way it used to, and the queue is just getting longer and longer.

I believe the second hypothesis is more likely to be the truth, as it's supported by the introduction of a whitelist. In my opinion, that was clearly done to fast-track the trusted authors and thus relieve some of the burden, but even with that, the numbers are much lower than they used to be.

Whatever the problem was, and I'm not talking about the glitch, it hasn't been resolved yet. Arm yourselves with patience or find another platform. That's all there is to it, I'm afraid.

Do you have actual numbers of earlier this year?

Someone (NotWise?) who tracks it had claimed that it has been roughly 180-ish/day for the last few years. It was 170-something a day for the second half of August (I was gathering stats for my How To), which is just before the apparent start of the major purgatory problems. I have hear it was over 200 during covid, but a drop in submissions post lockdown seems likely there.

 

[millamomud]

Apropos some of the optimistic talk that sounded more like wishful thinking to me.

The number of published stories for the weekend - the most active reading period, and usually the part of the week when Lit used to publish the most stories in one day:

Friday: around 160
Saturday: around 175
Sunday: around 210

Once again, this is far below Lit's output in spring and early summer, or even before that. So either the number of submissions has dropped sharply since the summer, or Lit still isn't functioning the way it used to, and the queue is just getting longer and longer.

I believe the second hypothesis is more likely to be the truth, as it's supported by the introduction of a whitelist. In my opinion, that was clearly done to fast-track the trusted authors and thus relieve some of the burden, but even with that, the numbers are much lower than they used to be.

Whatever the problem was, and I'm not talking about the glitch, it hasn't been resolved yet. Arm yourselves with patience or find another platform. That's all there is to it, I'm afraid.

Specifically in Germany:

Friday: 0
Saturday: 0
Sunday: 1

I don't believe in a whitelist. In addition to longer queues we have alarming rejection rates for alleged use of AI, even with long standing authors, who had, up until now, a constant and high output.

The issue with pending stories alone would be bearable, the latter is the reason why people keep turning their backs on literotica right now.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Do you have actual numbers of earlier this year?

Someone (NotWise?) who tracks it had claimed that it has been roughly 180-ish/day for the last few years. It was 170-something a day for the second half of August (I was gathering stats for my How To), which is just before the apparent start of the major purgatory problems. I have hear it was over 200 during covid, but a drop in submissions post lockdown seems likely there.

Take a look at the dates of the threads I linked.

https://forum.literotica.com/threads/is-this-the-new-record.1628801/

This one is from February. I made the post when I noticed an unusual number of published stories, even for Lit. I believe 250 stories per day on average was the norm around that time. Read through the thread and see what people thought about it.


Then there's this one. Check the date as well, and the claim that Manu made.


So this has been a trend for likely the first half of 2025, at least. We've no reason to believe that the number of submissions dropped sharply in the second half, but we've every reason to believe that there is a serious issue with the publication process, insanely long and unprecedented queues, at least for non-illustrated categories, as well as many reports of glitching.

 

[asiansexfight]

Have posted over 100 stories and no trouble with posting. 8th oct posted a story and it sat in pending for 10 days and because the longest before was 5 I deleted it changed the name to Japan:Two long sexfights and more and resubmitted on 25 oct. It is still there as pending so i thought maybe some glitch with my account but today a story i uploaded on 6 dec was posted. So it is not account specific. I will delete the story, again change title and opening paragraph and resubmit again. Tried all the methods of contact and though i expected no reply some said a pm to laurel got no reply but success. I didnt have that luck. I have started also posting at storiesonline, not stories online the kids books (one space big diference). Not as many readers but far easier and quicker posting method plus i had a technical problem and the owner very quickly answered with info that worked. Problem here is not being able to communicate when something goes wrong as the site setup is great for my needs as a reader and previosly as a writer

 

[EmilyMiller]

Have posted over 100 stories and no trouble with posting. 8th oct posted a story and it sat in pending for 10 days and because the longest before was 5 I deleted it changed the name to Japan:Two long sexfights and more and resubmitted on 25 oct. It is still there as pending so i thought maybe some glitch with my account but today a story i uploaded on 6 dec was posted. So it is not account specific. I will delete the story, again change title and opening paragraph and resubmit again. Tried all the methods of contact and though i expected no reply some said a pm to laurel got no reply but success. I didnt have that luck. I have started also posting at storiesonline, not stories online the kids books (one space big diference). Not as many readers but far easier and quicker posting method plus i had a technical problem and the owner very quickly answered with info that worked. Problem here is not being able to communicate when something goes wrong as the site setup is great for my needs as a reader and previosly as a writer

Good luck with your new site

 

[Claudia6]

@Laurel and @Manu we should quantify this current problem, which seems to be impacting many authors and impinging on Event / Competition submissions.

ich habe auch 2 stories die im "pending" hängen! After Party Mit Hugo Nächster Tag und Die Handwerker!

 

[EmilyMiller]

ich habe auch 2 stories die im "pending" hängen! After Party Mit Hugo Nächster Tag und Die Handwerker!

Es tut mir sehr leid, das zu hören. Haben Sie versucht, sie zu löschen und dann erneut einzureichen?