Hi fellow Hiveians,
Today I wanted to talk about the reluctance of using something like Leo when a key feature was broken for me!
Scheduling Requirements
Do I finally get to schedule posts on Leo?! If it works.. then I will be re-upping my Leo premium!
The Leo platform has been around for a long time, and I've participated in it at some level for most of it's time, although with breaks in between. I'm not a diehard Leo person, mainly because the content didn't really fit my niche in the platform but I do sprinkle my posts here and there, and try to participate in Threads and other things on the Leo side. Since they started the Leo Premium service a few months ago, I activated it for a few months, and got one for free. That was great but one of my primary means of using the platform is writing long-form content. Secondarily, that content gets scheduled to post a few days after I write it because that's how I've factored in writing as much as I can on the days I have time, energy or capacity so that I can get posts committed to the chain.
The Leo platform has gone in and out in terms of functionality which is fine and understandable, but one of the biggest pain points for me over the past 6-9 months has been that the Schedule Post functionality is essentially completely broken. It would get fixed, then it would sort-of work on one post, fail on another and just cause all-around issues. Eventually I gave up fighting with it, reported the issues to the team and also stopped my membership to Premium, waiting for it to be fixed since I really need my posts to be scheduled, but Leo rewards only occurred if it was posted from the Leo front end.
These things may seem small and petty but they are really my workflow, so I needed to make sure that they worked as expected. I am at a point where I need to spend my time wisely, and being able to do some writing and then get it scheduled to post when I need it to is really important, so I really don't want to upset the apple cart so-to-speak. I know that it's important to be flexible in life but at the same time, when we've got our habits for some things we prefer the convenience we've got built in, versus having to make adjustments.
For me, I knew that the scheduling feature would eventually be fixed and restored, although I had no idea the timeline on it as the team had bigger priorities. I checked the site every 6-8 weeks to see if it was working again to no avail but thankfully the other day I visited, and found that it might be working! I didn't get some ominous error when trying to schedule! Huzzah!
Will this be the end of the hiatus from the Leo side? I certainly hope so, as I do have some posts written and in the drafts queue but have abstained from getting them published because of this lack of scheduling ability. I've also got a few other topics in the lineup that I need to get completed, so I have been looking forward to getting back on the horse. I think this type of thing is important, that we don't give up on some groups in situations like this and let them sort it out, while we go do other things. People can certainly learn a thing or two from that type of mindset!
EDIT**** Since I wrote this the other day, today was the day my Leo post was scheduled to publish and NOPE, still broken. Fucking pain in the ass.. ah well, the months long hiatus continues. I'll likely manually publish the posts I wrote for now, and wait another few months for them to fix their shit.
What about you, do you have specific things that you like to do, and can't really find the time to deal with it otherwise? Let me know in the comments!
-CmplXty. Real human written content, never AI. All pictures are mine unless otherwise stated
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