Why getting your article live @ C#Corner is so unsystematic?

Kapil Gaur

I joined C-sharpcorner in October 2018. It is really a good community as I see lot of good people who are contributing to technology every now and then. I have become fan of Mahesh Chand and Vidya Vrat sir for their continuous knowledge sharing. I am avid writer of my technical and daily life experiences. I found out the article life cycle needs an improvement over here. Sometimes the article I post over here gets approved in 2-3 days and sometimes it might take even 7-10 days. While the system still says that if your article is correct it will be live within 24 hours. But I notice sometimes its status not even change to be in review for 2-3 days. Which is sometime very disappointing. We as author create a demo for our article, do some reseraches and then after investing 2-3 days write an article and then it is left in submitted state for an uncertain timeframe.

I had discussion with other prominent authors as well and they also complain. They say earlier it used to be approved within 24 hours only but now there is some issue.

Being an technologist cum entreprenuer I also feel that there might be increase in number of articles that come to you over time. But a process should be defined such that system should share the expected time so that author is informed. It would be great if you take some measure over here. There should definitely be a max time limit for a article to get review. Might be you even increase that 24 hours deadline but a fix time over here will help author to plan accordingly.

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Pranav Mittal7y ago
Accepted answer
Hi Kapil,

We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience you faced. We, the editorial team, also try our best to publish the articles as soon as we can. Usually, the articles get delayed because of the heavy flow of articles in the Editor panel. Every author wants his/her article to be published right away. But since we work on each article manually to make them readable in a better understandable language, it gets impossible to work on every article the same day. Some articles are so poorly written that we have to make a complete re-write of a write-up.

Thus, some get pending for a day or two. For maintaining the balance and unbiasedness, we publish one article per author per day (or per 2-3 days). This is what we did in your case too.
Although we already follow a proper process but it sometimes gets affected depending on the number of articles we receive or some special events.

Still, thank you for your valuable suggestion. Let me assure you that we will focus on this issue and will work upon notifying the authors the status of the article in each phase.

Thanks again.
Kapil Gaur7y ago
Thanks Pranav for quick reply. I can understand the complexity on your side. But there is scope for improvement like things should not strech beyond 5-6 days. In such case authors loose that enthusiasm. Because there is no history kind of features in articles where the author see whats happening now and what has happened in past to articles. So I believe that this will be made better as you wrote in your reply.