Story Approval: Everything got published?

Discussion in 'CHYOA General' started by obieblu_tumblr, Jun 8, 2017.

  1. Hi, I've posted a lot of content for a new story, and I was just finally ready to publish the first sequence, but not the entire thing. I hit 'Approve' on only the chapters I wanted published, and the story just got approved (Thanks!). But it looks like everything got published?

    If possible, could you unpublish everything from here on: https://chyoa.com/chapter/Head-to-the-inn.339510

    How should I approach this in the future? If I do something with a lot of stat changes, I'll want to test a lot before publishing. Should I have just published the Intro with a "Still Working" message?

    Thanks
     
  2. Either someone got to this immediately, or something was displaying oddly on my phone.

    I got the notification that that my story was approved while I was out. In the map, I didn't see any "Not Published" message, and when I went in to edit, it was just "Save", no "Publish". So, either something was displaying oddly on mobile, or a moderator is FAST!! (Thanks!)
     
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  3. Friedman

    Friedman Administrator

    Hi obieblu_tumblr,

    I've unpublished the chapters.

    It's probably the easiest to make a note at the beginning of the story. Then I or other mods know immediately what to do :)
     
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  4. Will do. Thanks for the super-fast response!
     
  5. Friedman

    Friedman Administrator

    You're welcome :)
     
  6. Oh, one other odd thing. Before you unpublished, it listed as only 17 chapters and only 5 chapters deep, which is what I hit the 'Approve' button for. That was part of why I wasn't 100% sure of what was visible to all.
     
  7. RicoLouis

    RicoLouis Really Really Experienced

    Unfortunately when you publish a story it publishes everything.
    The chapter count can be off at times if you are adding or taking away stuff. I have gotten a minus symbol once after deleting a bunch of threads.
     
  8. gene.sis

    gene.sis CHYOA Guru