Why is my DEV post invisible to everyone but me?
For anyone else hitting this, here is the link that should be working but isn't:https://dev.to/kikoz-bass/how-to-validate-complex-web-forms-using-a-business-rules-engine-20j7
I've already checked the basics. I'm not in a "draft" state, and I didn't accidentally set it to private. Usually, when a post vanishes like this on a dev platform, it's one of three things: a shadow-ban for "spammy" behavior, a caching delay that's taking way too long, or some invisible moderation filter that flagged a keyword.
Since I'm talking about business rules engines—which involves a lot of logic-heavy terminology—I'm wondering if the automated filters are tripping over the content. It feels like a black box. One minute you're following a standard AI workflow to polish your technical writing, and the next, the platform decides your content isn't "worthy" of the public feed without telling you why.
If this is a common issue with the DEV platform, I'd love to know how you diagnosed it. Did you have to reach out to support, or did it just magically appear after 24 hours? I'm skeptical that it's just "caching" because the URL is active for me but missing from the community discovery side.
If anyone has a practical tutorial or a step-by-step on how to verify if a post is actually indexed or just hidden by an algorithm, please share. I'm trying to figure out if I should just cross-post this to a different platform or if I need to rewrite sections of the article to satisfy some invisible bot. It's frustrating when you spend hours on a deep dive only for the deployment to fail silently.