⚠ Attention ⚠ - Steemit.com Glitch - Do not use 5 tags when creating posts! (Only use 4)
If you create a post using 5 tags, users will not be able to see the post when they browse the 4 secondary tags. It will only show up in the new/hot/trending category of the main tag. If you create it using 4 tags though, then it will show up when users browse the primary tag as well as the 3 secondary tags.
Example 1 (OK):
- Tags: glitch steem steemit news
- Users will see the post when browsing the glitch, steem, steemit, and news tags.
Example 2 (Not OK):
- Tags: glitch steem steemit news issue
- Users will only see the post when browsing the glitch tag.
- Users will not see the post when browsing the steem, steemit, news, and issue tags
This was reported by @jacobcards in this post. There is an error with the Steem blockchain API which is causing it.
Here is the GitHub issue to track the issue/fix:
https://github.com/steemit/steem/issues/673
Thanks for the credit :D
Of course! :)
I noticed this too, but it was not until @karenmckersie mentioned it that I really began to think of it as a glitch. Now you are confirming her suspicions, thanks.
ps, I also noticed that I still have my Followers but lost most of those I was following....weird
let me fix that, those I was following are now back again.
There is a separate glitch related to the followers. The followers aren't actually "lost" - they are just not being shown properly. I think refreshing it fixes it. They are aware of it, and working on a fix.
Thanks for the notice on this... Can we edit already-posted stories to remove a 5th tag? Will that work?
Yes.
Nice to know....
Very importent!!!
Upvote & Follow
Many thanks for your post. I have re-steemed in the hope others will learn from this!
Cool, ty - the more people that know the better!
Yeah right! I will do a post in my fast growing FB group to let them know. https://web.facebook.com/groups/1281526168558106/
Cool :)
Good to know! Thanks!
Didn't know that. Thanks for the info
I read about this in another post yesterday. so, i posted with 4 tags only today.
I'm glad that the word is getting out :)
I'll be more glad if it's fixed :-)
hmmmm
I've decided to quit using more than one or two tags anyway..
Up to you :) I always prefer to use as many (relevant) tags as I can, to increase the chance that people will come across my posts.
that's the theory.
any evidence that it actually works?
I don't either.
on the new busy format posts are indexed by tag. It might make a difference there, but here it's like bobbing for apple. You get what pops up next. I don't think tags matter.
No :)