Warning: That "free social media scheduler" I found ate 47 of my posts without telling me

I spent like 3 hours setting up this free tool I saw recommended in a Facebook group. Thought it was working fine for 2 weeks. Then I checked my analytics and noticed my engagement tanked. Turns out it was scheduling posts but never actually publishing them. Just sitting there saying "scheduled." Lost a whole month of content planning. Anyone else had a free tool just silently fail on them like that?

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hollyramirez13d ago

Happened to me with a "free" Instagram scheduler. Found out it had a 10 post limit. Started failing silently after that. Real kick in the teeth.

the_julia13d ago

Oh wow "failing silently" is honestly nightmare fuel. Like how do you even catch that until it's already messed everything up for you? 10 posts is such a weird arbitrary limit too, @hollyramirez. I'd be so mad if I thought I was scheduling free content and it just stopped working without telling me. That's the kind of thing that makes you lose trust in a tool completely.