Hi guys, As fellow authors, based on our chats at the discord server. We know of the few issues that exists right now.
1) If you have already published a chapter, do not, I REPEAT, do not attempt to edit or correct it for now. As updating it will completely remove it from the table of contents.
2) There seems to be an existing delete issue for published chapter based on reports. So do not attempt to delete it as there may be an issue that arises on your account on inkstone where new published chapters will not post as well.
3) For now, authors note is limited to 500 characters, not words as mentioned in the alert. So try to keep those down. I don't know about the author's note bug that was mentioned earlier so I can not elaborate on it much as not of the other fellow authors seems to have suffered.
For my part I have not suffered any publishing issue, yet. I use the publish timer feature to release my chapters daily. So I don't know if that can help you. The default setting of the timer is 30minutes after your current time. It can be adjusted accordingly.
Hope this helps and please keep calm.
Webnovel/Inkstone staff are working on it since the issue started yesterday. We are not private messaging them on discord right now so they can continue working on it here and receive your issues.
For those that have lost chapters, I would personally just advice new readers on your synopsis as a first line notation that Webnovel servers have an ongoing update to its system which have affected your chapters. They are working to resolve the issue. When that is done, this note will be deleted.
That way, your new readers are informed and do not mistake jumbled up or missing chapters as poor storytelling.
Hope this helps.