Lost–A Glitch in the WordPress Posting System

Ironically, my post for the Daily Prompt (Entitled Lost: The Ones that (Fortunately) Got Away)  has been lost in the Reader. Has anyone else noticed that when you post a draft, it posts for the time the draft was first saved (As you were working on it) and not the time it was actually posted?  This has consequences if people find you on the Reader.

For instance, sometimes I have an idea for a post that I put into drafts but actually don’t write and post for a week or so.  I started noticing that none of these posts showed up in the Reader.  Sometimes I would create a totally new posting and this one would show up.  Then I discovered that the Reader was posting them at the time the draft was first closed down after being saved.

Unfortunately, not many people go that far back in the Reader to look for posts.  When I get to one I’ve already read, I take it for granted I’ve read all the ones deeper in the stack.  But this is not so if the person posted a draft started hours or days before it was posted.

If you don’t believe this, look for my posting I just posted at around 1:05 p.m. today on the Daily Post site. It is titled “Lost, The Ones That (Fortunately) Got Away.”  Although it showed up immediately in the Daily Post site, it was not posted as a recent posting in the Reader. I finally located it buried in posts from 5 hours ago.  A strange glitch in the system.

If you use the reader, you’ll never find the posting I just made without going a loooooong way back through posts you have probably already read.  For your ease in wandering, I’ve made a hyperlink above, but you can also find it here: https://judydykstrabrown.com/2015/09/24/lost-the-ones-that-fortunately-got-away/