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@authorpendragon via H&S

This is seriously worrying. Although I doubt that devices matter in this, I'm on Chromebook and Mac Air/High Sierra/Firefox. Minds has given us a sub-channel of our published blogposts. Nice touch. However, I had a massive amount of unlisted blogposts, which have suddenly vanished...and many of my published ones, several the work of months each, are missing. The article below for example comes from my Gail McGowan Mellor channel. It was the product of months of research, writing and fielding comments, yet missing completely from the new blog gallery set-up.

I retrieved it from way down the list in the Boost Console.

Anything never boosted (ALL my unlisted work) is of course not retrievable that way. As worrying, although I can get this particular article from Boost, republishing it does not make it show up in the new blogpost listing.

I've lost access to at least 4/5 of my work. Please restore the previous set-up. I cannot even inventory the amount of loss, which is not balanced by a glitzy new format.

This is critically important because some blog posters like @authorpendragon, but incredibly amounts of effort into their blogs, and the drafts can take months to finalise.

Steps to reproduce

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Platform information

Chromebook and Mac Air/High Sierra/Firefox

What is the current bug behavior?

The user cannot see the majority of their blog drafts

What is the expected correct behavior?

The user should be able to see all of their previous blog drafts.

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Possible fixes

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Super relieved to hear that you are on this. Thank you from all of us. To reproduce:

1. Look for https://www.minds.com/GailMcGowanMellor/blog/those-lowlife-trolls-trying-to-divide-minds-and-cut-it-off-f-911022362963087360 See? It exists, is being commented upon. I first published it in the fall of last year.

2. I just republished that post, having found it in Boost. [Check Boost on that channel, It's there.]

3. It has disappeared along with at least 50 blogposts -- years of work -- from my @gailmcgowanmellor and @authorpendragon channels. [Try to find it in my @gailmcgowanmellor gallery, where it should be. It isn't there.]

So it still exists on Minds' servers (you can find it on Boost).

Access to it however has been lost. At this writing at least, republishing that post from Boost has not replaced it in my Blog Gallery. If something is not in Boost, moreover, it cannot be found or even be republished; it's just lost -- like ALL my unlisted work and much of my published work, completely disappeared.