Avoid Double Posting on Steemit (Network Errors) / Tools for help / other TIPS - October 29, 2017

Hi dear friends.

I see that steemit is coming back to life day by day. The work behind it it starts to let us come back to write again. Well, a rest is welcomed in any place, right? ;-)

But, having some issues with posting yesterday, i think i found a workaround to avoid double posting here, on steemit.com.

Here, i just wanted to share my solutions that i've found and help others to avoid this hassle.

I use at least 12 tools for steemit when checking my voting power, status, transactions etc.
You can find them here (plus the links that i use most at the end of this post):

STEEMTOOLS - An overview of Tools & Services for Steem

PROBLEM:

• DOUBLE POSTING

When you finished your post and trying to POST it, you get the

Newtork boradcast error

&

TypeError: Network Request failed

Usually, i wait 1-2 minutes, i try other pages to see if steemit works and then i try again.

If is not working, i let it there and go to do other things.

Yesterday, it was late in the night... lol, it was almost morning and wanted to go to sleep.

So i tried few more times without a chance to finish posting.

It came into my mind that i could go to check the tools for steemit where all transactions are recorded to see if is something there.

SOLUTION

• CHECK STEEMIT TOOLS TRANSACTIONS

It may not work for you at that time, depending on those websites if are online or not. But for now, it worked for me.

Then i went first on

SteemDB - STEEM Blockchain Explorer

And... i saw there that were 2 transactions made. Even my screen was still holding the post without being... posted.

There were 2 posts with same content but with different URLs. The second one had some random characters at the beginning. So, the things were already done.

So,

FIRST, when you make a post go on some of this tools and check if there were made some transactions and after refreshing that pages, go check your blog if there are updates with your post. JUST after that try to press the POST button again!

I think it will solve some issues with your nerves, also maybe with duplicate content. I don't like to clog the network with useless things if it is no reason to do that.

WHAT CAN'T BE DONE:

After an article is POSTED, you can't (at least at the time of this post):

• delete post
• delete / change first TAG
• change the URL of the post
  
  

TIPS:

I see lot of people that are losing text in their comments or even in posts.

Fortunately for me, i don't think it happened until now. I suppose that i would remember that for sure ;-)

All the time when the comment or post haven't gone through the posting step, i had it back in the same format and with the same box, even if i closed the window or the browser and came back the second day. I think, it happened with a payment once. It was still there without some info... but the window was not closed.

• I use chrome for writing here. It kept all my unposted content in the same place, waiting just to press the button. Maybe updated chrome helps to have that saved and opened the in the same last stage
• For my posts and for long comments i always write in another text processor, doesn't matter which one (notepad, notepad++, word, markdown editor etc).
• When steemit.com is not working, go and try busy.org for comments, votes and even posting (with a little bit different formatting for text)
• check your account transactions in links below to be sure that they are really there

I put links for this tools with my username because some of them from the first page will make you uncomfortable for the first time use.

Just replace in the link in your browser my name with yours and hit enter (where is needed, where not just put yours directly in that box):

• SteemDB - STEEM Blockchain Explorer

• ilvstranger | Steem

• Steem Supply - Monitor Upcoming Payouts

• steemstats - Steem Account Statistics + Monitoring

• steemviz.com : potential pending payout calculator

• Steem Now

Hope it helps you too that info.

Till next time,
Cheers and good steemit time!
(if you read it on steemit, if not go check out my posts there, links below)

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