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When Will The Publication Publish my Story? It’s Easy to Check

Making your life on Medium a little bit easier

All that waiting. All that lost productivity. Photo by Junior Moran on Unsplash

Did you ever submit that great article to that awesome publication? After submitting you dream about all the views, the comments, the ego-boost, and all the great things that this new story will bring. Except… The publication does not publish your masterpiece. What’s going on?

There are publications out there that schedule stories to be published later. This little extension shows you whether that’s going on with your article. It also happens to tell you if you have delayed publishing yourself.

What Does This Extension Do For Me?

Let’s first start with what Medium tells you:

As I usually meter my stories, the little star at the story tells me I have submitted a story. This could be either to a publication, where it is pending for review. Or it could be one I have scheduled to publish later.

In the first case, if I have submitted to a publication, I might get tired of waiting? Have they already processed it and scheduled it for the upcoming batch? Or is it still left untouched? This is where the extension kicks in. Shall we click on the story?