Same issue. I was publishing on the site for a whole year, then suddenly in 2025's September, they stopped accepting my series' new chapters which stuck right in the middle. I have to wait for over a month just to get rejected. Not even my edits are getting accepted anymore.
It was right around when I started my first-ever series that I started having issues. When they rejected my last submission, they said I needed an editor, even though I used one. So I resubmitted it again and told them it wasn't A.I., and I used an editor. It was only after this that they actually gave me a straight answer. They said my chapters weren't in order. Even though they were in order. I just didn't have all the chapters listed in the title. How was I supposed to figure that out by being told I need to use an editor? So I sent in the previous chapter with the word EDIT in the title, noting that it contains chapters 4-7. Only after this is approved will I bother to resubmit my next chapter a third time. Also, changing the title to say it contains chapters 8-10. Hopefully, this fixes the issue. It's been three days. They rejected it twice in 24 hours each. If it takes more than a week, I know it won't get published, so I will just give up.
What I've noticed is that if you can click the hyperlink title in your pending folder and it goes to the edit screen you are in pending purgatory. However if you click the hyperlink title in the pending folder and you get a web page that says your work is being reviewed than it is currently not in pending purgatory.
Well, it looks like I'm already in pending purgatory.
I don't get this. I've never seen any web page saying my work is being reviewed. I've always seen the edit screen whenever I click the hyperlink title. And the stories get published just fine.
Consider yourself lucky. You are the exception, not the rule.
I am having this "AI" issue with almost every story I try to submit now. That is when they at least get rejected. I am at a point where I am losing faith in anything getting published. I have had stories pending for months, the ones that finally get through are rejected based on the "AI" checks. Even though I have now even had them edited by an actual human.Well, I have the opposite issue. I sent a new short story (6 pages) at around midnight, and it has already been rejected. I put in the notes at the bottom for them to read (that they apparently don't read), saying I used an editor and no AI was used to make this. They rejected it, then suggested I use an editor.
So I resummited it today, saying, "Please stop having your AI robot Overlords stop rejecting my story. I told them I even used Grammarly Pro several times on it, looking for different issues. It gave me 100%. I ran an AI checker, and it said no AI was detected.
Why do their 'improvements' consistently make this site worse? I had submitted an edited story on my other account and gave up on it. Stuck in pending.
A computer programmer looked up the code here and said that Literotica didn't fill in some of the code. It wasn't just a plug-and-play thing. Al they had to do was add a number that wasn't zero. I wish they would message them directly and tell them the issue.
I noticed that when I submitted a free verse in the Poetry section on the same day. That is why I mentioned it. I ended up deleting my two stories (4/1 and 4/16) in pending purgatory, then submitting them as new with a different title. Hopefully that'll work. If I see theat review page again I will take a screenshot
I get that screen every time I submit something new. Then what happens (to me) is it either gets posted within 3 days or the submission date changes automatically and it remains in pending purgatory. If the submission date changes automatically, I no longer get the waiting for a moderator to review web page I get the edit page that you get
Huh. Has that always been the case since you've been on Lit?
I've noticed this since Fall of last year when the pending purgatory bug 1st hit. Someone else mentioned the web page difference issue as well as the submission date changing issue. Supposedly bug reports were submitted. But like I said there's no ROI so no $ incentive $ to fix it
That is what the bug is called?
Okay.
like AO3, Adultfanfic, or fanfiction.net?
I sent another bug report. Only after sending a bug report for my Nymph 2, The Scentic Route, did I actually get a reason for its rejection. Claiming the stories were out of order, even though they weren't. So I resubmitted the previous chapter, changing the title to indicate it contains chapters 4-7. Not just chapter 4. So I'll see if that works. I really don't want to start over on another site. Even with the many bugs on this one.
Sounds like good news. Keep us updated.
