Missing Authors' Stories in the Reading Queue (RQ)

Has anyone else been missing new stories in their Reading Queue (RQ) from some followed authors?

The bell notifications were received but the stories were not added automatically to the RQ. Oftentimes, I read the new releases as they get published. Unfortunately, there are occasions when I can not do it instantaneously.. When I have time to catch up on my reading, it is convenient to simply scroll through the RQ instead of perusing the full story roster, unless I am trying to discover other author and/or story options.

For an example, techgoddess' latest story, 'His to Use', is not in my RQ. That was published two days ago. Other stories that were published around the same day are still in the RQ except for those I have read (automatically removed once liked).

How many do you have in your queue? Just wondering if you've reached an arbitrary limit.

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How many do you have in your queue? Just wondering if you've reached an arbitrary limit.

I have 972 stories including the recently added Ignition. A fraction of which are years old stories that have been read and liked but not favourites yet perhaps still worth a reread. Thus, I added them back to the queue.

To note a few more, WannabeWordsmith', Obsolete_Fox, and Georgia_27_8's stories didn't get added, too. At first, I thought it was because I have been following them for a long while. However, LinaDS2025, whom I followed maybe a couple of months or so, didn't either.

I don't know if this the case. It seems like each time I follow a new author, a previously followed authors' upcoming stories do not get added to the reading queue.

Crikey, and I thought my reading queue was out of control! 🤣

Maybe you're hitting some internal limit in the number of follows or reading queue entries, as you suggest. I doubt it, but who knows.

One way to prove that would be to prune some and then see if new ones come into the queue from whoever is left on your follows list.

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Crikey, and I thought my reading queue was out of control! 🤣

Maybe you're hitting some internal limit in the number of follows or reading queue entries, as you suggest. I doubt it, but who knows.

One way to prove that would be to prune some and then see if new ones come into the queue from whoever is left on your follows list.

Guilty of hoarding smut. lol

I can remove a bunch from the queue. I follow 69 members at the moment. About half of them have not published new pieces.

About the limit, new stories from other authors are added. Not from those I mentioned. None of their January stories showed in the reading queue. Techgoddess, Obsolete_Fox and your stories have not hit the reading queue as of sometime last year. I had to look from the profile if not the main story list when I clear the bell notifications without reading them first.

That's very odd. I knos I get notifications from some authors (likes and stuff) that raise a bell notification but don't appear on any timeline. So once I acknowledge or clear the bell, I can't see the activity.

Perhaps this is some strange related bug where certain (types of) stories aren't added to the queue? Maybe mods are exempt for some reason (all three accounts you listed have that in common)? Or maybe mods with certain privacy settings are exempt?

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That's very odd. I knos I get notifications from some authors (likes and stuff) that raise a bell notification but don't appear on any timeline. So once I acknowledge or clear the bell, I can't see the activity.

Perhaps this is some strange related bug where certain (types of) stories aren't added to the queue? Maybe mods are exempt for some reason (all three accounts you listed have that in common)? Or maybe mods with certain privacy settings are exempt?

Indeed very odd.

IF is filtered through my settings. The authors I follow don't write IF either so that won't be the case.

By the way, I removed over 100 stories in the queue leaving 870 behind. In addition to that, I unfollowed and followed the aforementioned authors in case it needed a refresh. Two of them are story mods. You are an admin. One is a global chat mod. The other is a regular member.

I will monitor and report back when a new story is out from the Mythical 5.lol

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Perhaps this is some strange related bug where certain (types of) stories aren't added to the queue? Maybe mods are exempt for some reason (all three accounts you listed have that in common)? Or maybe mods with certain privacy settings are exempt?

I follow 57 Authors, which includes many of the story mods. I try to keep my reading queue down to one or two pages. All stories from the story mods that I follow have entered my reading queue since the start of the year. It may be a bug on Mit's profile.

I have IF hidden on my profile. IF stories enter my reading queue from authors I follow who publish IF stories, however they remain 'hidden' from my view until I unhide the category. I found this out when a Lush friend (who has now deleted his account) wrote & published an IF story. I got a notification that a story from said member had been published, but I could not see the story in my queue. It was only after I unhid that category that the story (& other IF stories from other authors I follow) showed in my queue. I had to manually remove them from my queue before hiding the category again.

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I have IF hidden on my profile. IF stories enter my reading queue from authors I follow who publish IF stories, however they remain 'hidden' from my view until I unhide the category

Do you feel this is a bug and that you shouldn't get a notification+reading queue entry for IF stories from authors you follow if you've hidden that category? Or is this just an informational post?

If you think it's a bug, can you raise a support ticket please, so it can be passed to the dev team.

Update: from 33 pages down to 25 pages

I randomly picked pages from the far end forwards to read-like/favourite or for some, just removed.

Whilst in the process of chopping off more stories in my reading queue, I discovered that the 'missing' stories were indeed in the queue BUT added in an odd placement. The missing unread stories (January 2026 to 2025-2023) from Obsolete_Fox, techgoddess, Georgia_27_8, and LinaDS2025 showed after older stories published in 2013, in the last few pages (20 of 25) of the queue along with other authors like KimmiBeGood, MILF_Clarissa, Katherine, stockingluvr, dronette56, AvidlyCurious, leggielibby, NishasWorld, and Seraphina_022 to name a few.

The stories were supposed to be listed in chronological order from recently added to the oldest from the first page to the last. They were in chronological order until reaching page 20 with an old story in 2013 suddenly jumping to an hours old story of Obsolete_Fox.

From that page, they were still in chronological order to the very last page with stories as old as 2013. In case you're wondering, I added the stories older than my Lush 'tenure' years before this issue.

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The stories were supposed to be listed in chronological order

Uhh, sort of.

I think (not entirely sure) that the list actually shows Platinum authors first and then everyone else after (don't ask why: I argued against it!). Each set is in reverse chronological order. But because mods are "implied platinum" they don't get listed in the first set.

So the order is:

• Platinum members: newest first.

• Mods, gold, silver, free: newest first.

Is that perhaps what you're seeing?

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Uhh, sort of.

I think (not entirely sure) that the list actually shows Platinum authors first and then everyone else after (don't ask why: I argued against it!). Each set is in reverse chronological order. But because mods are "implied platinum" they don't get listed in the first set.

So the order is:

• Platinum members: newest first.

• Mods, gold, silver, free: newest first.

Is that perhaps what you're seeing?

Yes. That was the other factor that I can not prove if right. The seemingly endless pages of highlighted authors ended on page 20 along with mods, Gold, Silver and free membership all in one page.

Case solved! Thank you for your assistance.

And thankfully, no IF at all in the queue.