Another Vocal Improvement
Something I Discovered This Morning
Introduction
A good thing about any platform is giving users the ability to rectify their own issues rather than having to raise a ticket or send an email.
So What Are The Improvements?
Previously if we wanted to change the title or subheading we had to raise a ticket to get the story moved to draft. As a V+ user, you can now do that yourself.
At four o'clock this morning a poem I wrote last night was still awaiting review but poems were being published, so it was obviously stuck in the system.
Then I thought "What if I copy the poem and paste it into a new story, with the same title and publish it?". That's what I did and it was published in seconds. This is the poem:
That meant that the stuck one was still waiting in "Submitted" awaiting review. I didn't want it published, but I noticed the three dots and when I clicked them I was given the option to delete. As I couldn't get a pic when it was submitted I've shown the equivalent in "Draft" which I didn't know was still there, this was a "ghost" story. This is another unpublicised improvement, I just pasted this image into my story. Vocal needs to be more Vocal about Vocal improvements.
Conclusion
Despite the recent issues Vocal are continually making improvements and should be congratulated for that.
The more power they give to users to solve their own problems the less maintenance work they have to do, and that makes for a more efficient platform that is better for everybody.
Thank you so much for reading, although I will add some images to illustrate what I did when I can.
The music is "Getting Better" by The Beatles.
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Mike Singleton π Mikeydred
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Comments (9)
Thanks for the info, I guess also for all of us on Vocal another Beatles song could be Come Together
Bit by little bit. So long as the number of steps moving forward continues to exceed the steps taken back, we should be okay.
Vocal needs to be more Vocal, lol, that's a good one! But yes, I agree with you. They need to know what updates they have done
Yeah, I noticed that last week when the issues first started. One of my poems was was triple-submitted, and I was able to delete two of them this way. I like this improvement <3
Very cool. Thank you for making us aware of this. Fantastic music to go with it! ππ·
Even as a regular vocal creator the site is even getting better for us too. Good job.
Thank you for making us aware of this improvement! Great work Mike! πΈ
This is quite encouraging.
Yes, the most important is that the improvements keep coming.