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Posts Hub & the post lifecycle

The Posts Hub (at /posts) is the grid of every post you've created — drafts, scheduled, published, and deleted. It's where you filter, bulk-edit, open a post for detailed editing, and track it through its lifecycle.

The grid: tabs, filters, and pages

Posts are organised into four tabs:

Tab Contents
Drafts Posts you're still working on.
Scheduled Posts queued to publish at a future time.
Published Posts that have gone live (including in-flight and partial ones).
Trash Soft-deleted posts, recoverable for a limited time.

Within a tab you can narrow the grid by platform, by assignee, and by a search over the caption text. The grid shows 24 posts per page; paging controls appear once you have more.

The Detail Panel

Open any post to bring up the Detail Panel — the full editing surface for a single post. From here you can:

  • Edit the caption, media, and alt text.
  • Set or change the schedule.
  • Run status actions — schedule, publish now, retry, and so on.
  • Read and add comments for your team.
  • See the activity log — a timeline of what happened to the post.
  • Get a share link to the post.
  • View version history and revert to an earlier version.

The post lifecycle

A post moves through a sequence of states. The happy path is:

draft → scheduled → publishing → published

with branches for things that don't go cleanly:

Status Meaning
Draft Being worked on; not queued.
Scheduled Queued to publish at its scheduled time.
Publishing The engine is sending it to the platform right now.
Published Live on the platform.
Partial A multi-target post (e.g. a thread or carousel) where some parts went live and some failed.
Failed Publishing didn't succeed.
Processing The platform accepted the post but hasn't finished processing it yet (currently used by TikTok).

You move a post between draft and scheduled yourself; it only reaches published through the publisher — see How publishing works.

Editing rules

Editing is allowed while a post is a draft, scheduled, or failed (and a couple of internal review states). It is blocked once a post is publishing or published, and after it's been deleted:

State What happens if you try to edit
Publishing Blocked — wait for it to finish or fail first.
Published Blocked — the post is already live.
Deleted (Trash) Blocked — restore it from Trash first.

Editing a published post does not change the live post

Once a post is on the platform, editing its record in Buzzator won't propagate to the published content. To change something that's already live, edit it in the platform's own app.

Concurrent-edit protection

If two people (or two tabs) edit the same post at once, Buzzator uses optimistic locking so the second save doesn't silently overwrite the first. The later edit gets a conflict response — "Post was modified by another user. Please refresh and try again." Reload the post to pick up the latest version, then re-apply your change.

Version history

Every time a post's caption or media changes, Buzzator snapshots the previous state to version history. In the Detail Panel you can browse those versions (newest first) and revert to any of them. Reverting copies the old snapshot back over the live post and also snapshots the current state first, so the revert itself is undoable.

Reverted media is re-checked

When you revert, the restored media is re-validated against the platform's current limits. If a platform's rules tightened after the version was saved, media that would no longer publish is caught at revert time rather than at publish time.

Activity and comments

The activity log on each post records the meaningful things that happened to it — status changes, approvals, assignments, and publishes — with who did them and when. Alongside it, comments give your team a place to discuss a post without leaving Buzzator.

Trash and restore

Deleting a post is a soft delete: it moves to the Trash tab and is hidden from normal views, but it isn't gone. You can restore it for 30 days. After that window a cleanup process permanently removes it.