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So I just published my first completely new story with the upgraded archive and I noticed a difference. On the old archive, you had to publish the first chapter when you published the story. Now it seems like on the upgraded archive you don’t need to do that. My question is, can I create a placeholder for future stories that I’m not ready to publish in my story editor without it showing up on the archive? I immediately published the first chapter without thinking that I should check if the story is live. How does that work?

Well, I saw this and this is part of what I meant. I would love to create a bunch that are visible only to me and staff. I’m kinda curious if I can just change that and have it be visible to everyone later.

Oh! If you can hide it via your story manager, that’s fine then! I honestly forget what is available to non-staff members anymore...

Okay, just to be clear on what I mean about placeholders, if it could be a hidden “draft” in my story manager in the correct category. If that’s not possible, that’s fine. It’s fine since I usually only publish when my piece is a few chapters deep or complete.

If you create a story, even without content, it will appear in the archive. Interestingly enough, we don’t allow placeholders, so my recommendation is not to create the story until you have the first chapter ready to publish. You can create the story, check to see if it’s live, and then add the first chapter right away, though.