Statuses

What this is

A post has exactly one of four statuses, everywhere - the dashboard, the API and MCP agree on the same four strings. There is no “pending,” “published” or “error” status anywhere in Dropslate; if you see a status that isn’t one of these four, it’s a bug.

Status	Meaning
draft	Created but not scheduled - no time set, or taken off the queue by cancel.
queued	Has a time, waiting for the worker to send it.
live	Sent successfully; carries a link to the network’s own copy.
failed	The network rejected it at send time; carries the network’s response verbatim.

Transitions

• draft → queued: give it a time (schedule it).
• queued → draft: cancel - takes it off the queue without deleting it.
• queued → live or queued → failed: decided by the network’s own response when the worker sends it.
• failed → queued: retry - sends it again.

There is no path back out of live - a post that published cannot be un-published from Dropslate; delete or edit it on the network directly if needed.

Common errors

Error	Cause	Fix
Post stuck on queued past its time	Worker backlog, or a token that needs reconnecting.	Check the account’s connection status in Settings → Accounts; otherwise it will send shortly.
failed immediately after queued	The network rejected the request at send time (caption, file or permission issue).	Open the post for the network’s message verbatim, fix the cause, then retry.