ARTIICLEWYZ UPDATE - CHANGES IN PROCESSING USER UPLOADED ARTICLES
Without a doubt least happy group of articlewyz users are those who are submitting own, unique content. We continuously getting reports of articles getting posted several times to different blogs and, even worst, to the same blog.
Part of the problem was in the logic that articlewyz retries every failed post several times and only after 3 times marks it as "failed". When we introduced retry we got close to 30% improvements in success rate, but this would also include some "false positive" failed posts when system was able to login, found the form, entered data and clicked submit, but wasn't able grab submitted url.
Another part of the problem was related to fairly complex and dynamic logic of selecting article to post based on different schedule settings. Despite of getting good results with our test cases often result were different in production environment.
Today we uploaded changes that should finally give uses who are looking to publish unique articles confidence that there will be no duplicates posts.
1. User Submitted Article has own lifecycle. Once uploaded it has status "ready", in case of any errors it will be updated as "error" and once reached posting goals with be updated as "done" and never used again by the system
2. Scheduled Posts have Article assigned when created instead of dynamically selecting at the moment of the posting. This will guarantee that same article will not be assigned to more posts than requested.
3. On the Posting Schedule added option "Retry Failed". If you 're want to make sure there will be no duplicate content posted even at the cost of slightly lower success rate - always set "retry failed" to "NO"
4. On the Posting Schedule from User Submitted Articles section we removed two confusing options and replaced it with one Article Posting Limit, to post article only once - set limit to 1.