Dealing with the "Reveals Bug" on AO3

[ride_4ever]

When you post a work to an anonymous, unrevealed AO3 collection, such as the dSSS, your work is supposed to stay hidden until the collection is set to be revealed... and that is what happens unless that collection has been hit by the AO3 "reveals bug" that causes submitted fanworks to appear immediately as if you'd posted them outside the collection. We mods cannot predict or prevent the “reveals bug”. To prevent your work from being revealed ahead of time, you need to preview your work and save it as a draft, check its settings, and then either continue to post it (if the settings are correct) or delete it, wait a few minutes, and try again. Please make sure you don't leave it as a draft - that will not fulfill your assignment.

Here’s a “Reveals Bug” Tutorial, courtesy of the Once Upon a Fic comm.

(TYK to feroxargentea for providing this information.)

Comments

[jackymedan]

hey, I just stumbled upon an old open tab I had of the collection and I noticed this:

"Works Revealed: (no time specified)
Authors Revealed: Mon 24 Dec 2018 11:59PM CST (06:59AM CET)"

did that happen by accident/as a glitch (since the date currently listed for authors revealed should be the works revealed date) maybe related to this bug or...?

[ride_4ever]

TYK! That does bear checking out and mods will do so.

[verushka70]

Fixed it last night...Again, thanks so much for letting us know so we can fix the glitches!

[jackymedan]

no problem :))) thank YOU guys for running the exchange every year! it really has been one of the highlights of my year fandomwise ever since I first joined in 2014, so the least I can do (besides signing up and making art) is try to help you guys out wherever I can <3

[ride_4ever]

<3 <3 <3