Scene breaks missing from my newly published story

[Kasumi_Lee]

Edited my original post after more information came through:

It's great to finally publish a new story after taking what's basically maternity leave from writing on Literotica, and it's great that my latest story was approved and published so quickly, but when I looked at the published story this morning, I discovered that most of the scene breaks had disappeared, making the text run together as if it's all part of one continuous scene, which it isn't.

I checked my original draft and all of the scene breaks are right there in the original document along with the html formatting to center them in the text. After refreshing the affected pages, it turns out the scene breaks are there after all, and this is all due to a display glitch that hides centered text. I've reuploaded the original text with EDITED in the title box and removed the html that centers the scene breaks, since that's apparently what triggers the glitch (even though the words "THE END" are also centered and appear just fine).

I get that there are lots of other authors whose stories have been stuck in pending for weeks, so I'm in a lucky position of having my stories approved super quickly, but it's still infuriating that this happened. It reflects back on me as the author even though I didn't make this mistake.

Sorry to vent like this, but has anyone else encountered this problem with their stories?

 

[TheExperimentalist]

If by scene breaks, you mean horizontal rules (the lines that go all the way across), then yes, there is a glitch that has been present for a long time where sometimes they don't show up correctly, and it's not clear when or why some work and some don't. It can also change when you reload the page. (The same happens with centered text, presumably for a related reason.)

I've switched to using my own separators as a result (usually ten hyphens, ----------). It's most definitely annoying, but I don't think anyone intentionally removed your breaks.

 

[BeechLeaf]

Page 1 works correctly, you'll find, but in subsequent pages anything centred often (somewhat randomly?) doesn't show up, unless you refresh the page. There have been complaints about this for months, with apparently no result. But it does mean an edit* is useless: the scene breaks are still there, they just don't display.

added later to match your edit: For the benefit of future readers: An edit just 'restoring' centred text won't work, but if you take out the centring tag, as you did, that will work.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Sorry to vent like this, but has anyone else encountered this problem with their stories?

It's a display glitch, caused by the centred text alignment.

My suggestion would be to submit an edit, removing the centre alignment, and keep it left aligned only. It's not ideal, but at least it should be readable - in a month or so.

There's a bunch of threads on the same subject, but no real solution.

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

Page 1 works correctly, you'll find, but in subsequent pages anything centred often (somewhat randomly?) doesn't show up, unless you refresh the page. There have been complaints about this for months, with apparently no result. But it does mean an edit is useless: the scene breaks are still there, they just don't display.

Well, I tried refreshing the pages and sure enough the *** I use for scene breaks are right there.

 

[lovecraft68]

I gave up on trying to keep them centered a long time ago.

Now I do Chapter one, two etc...but the words are off to the side not centered and I don't worry about it. No one's complained.

 

[Voboy]

...after taking what's basically maternity leave...

Congratulations!

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

Congratulations!

Thank you! He was born last October!

 

[EmilyMiller]

Edited my original post after more information came through:

It's great to finally publish a new story after taking what's basically maternity leave from writing on Literotica, and it's great that my latest story was approved and published so quickly, but when I looked at the published story this morning, I discovered that most of the scene breaks had disappeared, making the text run together as if it's all part of one continuous scene, which it isn't.

I checked my original draft and all of the scene breaks are right there in the original document along with the html formatting to center them in the text. After refreshing the affected pages, it turns out the scene breaks are there after all, and this is all due to a display glitch that hides centered text. I've reuploaded the original text with EDITED in the title box and removed the html that centers the scene breaks, since that's apparently what trigger the glitch (even though the words "THE END" are also centered and appear just fine).

I get that there are lots of other authors whose stories have been stuck in pending for weeks, so I'm in a lucky position of having my stories approved super quickly, but it's still infuriating that this happened. It reflects back on me as the author even though I didn't make this mistake.

Sorry to vent like this, but has anyone else encountered this problem with their stories?

It’s not just centered hard returns, it’s any centered text. I have had chapter headings disappear.

It makes no difference whether you use <center>, <p align…>, or <div…>.

It makes no difference whether you upload a word or other document with centered text instead of using HTML.

It also screws with bulleted lists.

It renders some stories (particularly where we move to a new day or new narrator) unintelligible.

It’s supposedly fixed on some desktop browsers now. But still broken on most mobile browsers.

It’s fucking annoying.

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Congratulations!

Good on you for being the first one to actually express your support, unlike the rest of us heels who totally glossed over it to focus on the technical query.

I'll echo my congratulations, and hope it doesn't come off sounding too hollow in light of the above.

 

[EmilyMiller]

Thank you! He was born last October!

I thought you were being metaphorical

Congratulations

 

[Voboy]

Good on you for being the first one to actually express your support, unlike the rest of us heels who totally glossed over it to focus on the technical query.

I'll echo my congratulations, and hope it doesn't come off sounding too hollow in light of the above.

I mean, listen, I know every other aspect of life pales in significance next to the importance of getting Lit to fix all its issues, but a new baby is maybe worthy of note.

They're cute.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

You see, Literotica's admins think it's more important to invest their time in tiny UI adjustments, such as receiving notifications if one of your stories wins a contest (very important!), than in making stories render properly. I suspect a number of AHers are foaming in outrage because you dared to question the wisdom of Literotica's pantheon.

Congrats from me too.

 

[StillStunned]

Thank you! He was born last October!

Congratulations!

 

[TheLobster]

It's great to finally publish a new story after taking what's basically maternity leave from writing on Literotica, (…)

Congratulations for bringing something so priceless into this world!

Oh yeah, and good job on the baby, too

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

For those of you with experience in this glitch, does the <hr> tag work if you use it as a Section break?

 

[TheExperimentalist]

For those of you with experience in this glitch, does the <hr> tag work if you use it as a Section break?

Nope. Same problem.

 

[EmilyMiller]

For those of you with experience in this glitch, does the <hr> tag work if you use it as a Section break?

If not centered (and reduced in size), yes.

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

If not centered (and reduced in size), yes.

Thank you, @EmilyMiller !

 

[TheExperimentalist]

If not centered (and reduced in size), yes.

Thank you, @EmilyMiller !

I'm sorry, but that's not accurate. I used plain <hr>s for the breaks in my first couple of stories which luckily didn't need them for anything other than separating the author's notes at the beginning and end, and saw that they kept vanishing and reappearing, so I switched to (unformatted) lines of hyphens for important section breaks instead.

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

I'm sorry, but that's not accurate. I used plain <hr>s for the breaks in my first couple of stories which luckily didn't need them for anything other than separating the author's notes at the beginning and end, and saw that they kept vanishing and reappearing, so I switched to (unformatted) lines of hyphens for important section breaks instead.

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Yep, just checked to confirm, and it's still an issue. There's an <hr> here right before the Author's note:


Weirdly, the Author's note is supposed to be bold as well. Here it is after a page reload:

 

[EmilyMiller]

I'm sorry, but that's not accurate. I used plain <hr>s for the breaks in my first couple of stories which luckily didn't need them for anything other than separating the author's notes at the beginning and end, and saw that they kept vanishing and reappearing, so I switched to (unformatted) lines of hyphens for important section breaks instead.

Really? OK, I stand corrected - I thought it was only <p align=“center”><hr width=“50%”></p> that was problematic, but you are saying just <hr> is too? Sheesh!

 

[TheExperimentalist]

Really? OK, I stand corrected - I thought it was only <p align=“center”><hr width=“50%”></p> that was problematic, but you are saying just <hr> is too? Sheesh!

Sadly, yes. These are just plain <hr> with no additional special anything.

 

[Kasumi_Lee]

I thought you were being metaphorical

Congratulations

Nope, he's very real and very needy, but I adore him!