Resolved My Story not appearing on the search

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Still nothing.

Do we know his Mom's number? We should call and check to make sure he hasn't slipped in the shower or something.
 
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I'm going to try something.
I'll delete one of my books entirely, "Luana", re-add it, and see if that kicks in. I'll have to wait about 12 hours, but I can at least add all my chapters ahead of time and see how that goes. If I'm successful, that's a solution for everyone having troubles. ?
 
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I vote we start a thread here somewhere where all those unfairly blocked books that don't show up in search results or as updated series should be listed somehow and brought some attention to. It's just not fair that a.) we're being wrongly singled out somehow and b) no one seems to give much concern towards fixing or even addressing the situation. Where is our administration...? I even tried emails and no response.
 
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LeilaniOtter said:
I vote we start a thread here somewhere where all those unfairly blocked books that don't show up in search results or as updated series should be listed somehow and brought some attention to. It's just not fair that a.) we're being wrongly singled out somehow and b) no one seems to give much concern towards fixing or even addressing the situation. Where is our administration...? I even tried emails and no response.
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Tony hasn't been online for a long time, two weeks or so. Either he is on vacation or something happened to him, and I hope it's not latter.
 
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Some progress? I think? After nearly two weeks my series has suddenly started showing up on search. So that's something.

I did, however, just publish a new chapter and it isn't showing up on latest or in any subcategory. This is just.....really odd and irritating. Other people's content is showing up in latest lists. Mine isn't. It'll be nearly impossible for it to be seen.

All pretty disheatening to be honest.
 
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Are you sure? I don't think so. My series didn't show up for two weeks. Today? It does. you can search for it.

But it still isn't in ANY of the categories it should be. It's completely unfindable.
 
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RealityCheckStories said:
Are you sure? I don't think so. My series didn't show up for two weeks. Today? It does. you can search for it.

But it still isn't in ANY of the categories it should be. It's completely unfindable.
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No, it isn't in the search box.
That's someone else's story with a similar name.
 
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No, it's not. That story was called "The pearls broke free". Similar, but not the same. Believe me, I know the difference. I've been searching several times a day for the past two weeks..

My story wasn't searchable since I added it on the 19th. Suddenly today? It was. I did it several times this morning. When I made that post, it was showing up. In the last couple of hours....it's gone again.

The whole thing is absolutely bizarre.

Edit: Thinking about it some more, I did add a new chapter this morning. Maybe that knocked it off? I really have no idea. I posted this to two other popular fiction sites and didn't run into this kind of issue. I guess I'm just unlucky here,
 
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RealityCheckStories said:
Well, Luana does show up in search. Did you check to see if it shows up in any of the categories or latest?
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Well, when did THAT happen...?!
I checked it for over a day and never saw anything.

So, wow, okay. Did I just solve the problem for all of you? Simply delete and re-add the book...?

Update: "Luana" still won't show up on any other searches however, like genre, tags, etc. And none of the other four show up at all on a main search.
 
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Maybe try reporting the affected work and explain the situation there.
It uses different path of communication, so might have higher chance of getting fixed. All reported titles (translations) are being taken care of multiple times a day, so...
 
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RealityCheckStories said:
Some progress? I think? After nearly two weeks my series has suddenly started showing up on search. So that's something.

I did, however, just publish a new chapter and it isn't showing up on latest or in any subcategory. This is just.....really odd and irritating. Other people's content is showing up in latest lists. Mine isn't. It'll be nearly impossible for it to be seen.

All pretty disheatening to be honest.
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@Tony was just on Novelupdate today and was answering questions and helping people.

I don't understand. Why isn't he addressing matters here?
 
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Corty said:
Once again. Those are translations. They are prohibited content.

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Excuse me.
How exactly is a translation being detected? I mean, how does that work?
 
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MaxD said:
What if I delete your craft and re-upload it with a different title and cover?
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I tried deleting and re-uploading one of my books as a test.
It didn't work, and then it did, and then 6 hours later it was gone again.
Perplexing.
 
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