⚠ Attention ⚠ - Steemit.com Glitch - Do not use 5 tags when creating posts! (Only use 4)

in #glitch8 years ago (edited)

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

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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?

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/

Very importent!!!
Upvote & Follow

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.