Bugs Polls on chapters active before the chapter is live

[John_Owl]

So, I mentioned this in another forum, but wasn't sure if it was a bug. I've since been advised to post it here.

I have a story that relies heavily on polls for reader engagement. I noticed it with a prior chapter and saw it again with the one I posted today.

So, today is wednesday. I scheduled a chapter to go live on saturday with a poll set for 4 days, expecting that the poll would also go active on that day. What I noticed once it was scheduled, however, was that the poll expired on the 10th (4 days from today, NOT 4 days from the date it was to go live). It's not a major bug as I can just alter how logn the poll is meant to be active, but as I said, this was the second occurrence.

The previous was the same story, but I didn't catch the issue, so when the chapter went live, the poll had less than 1 full day. I can try to schedule a temp chapter with a poll to see if I can recreate it for a screenshot, if needed. I didn't think about taking one until now, sadly.

 

[TheBestofSome]

I noticed this as well on one of my recent chapters. I had set the poll to last for a month, so it doesn't matter that it will expire a couple days early, but it is a bit unintuitive if that is the intended behavior.

 

[John_Owl]

I noticed this as well on one of my recent chapters. I had set the poll to last for a month, so it doesn't matter that it will expire a couple days early, but it is a bit unintuitive if that is the intended behavior.

Yeah, that was my thought. It used to start the poll when the chapter went live, I could've sworn. But the site updated a couple of times while I was on hiatus, so I wasn't really certain.