and that is exactly what happened to me last year with a poetry resource list. I spent a whole weekend putting together maybe 50 links to free writing prompts and submission calls, all neatly sorted by theme. I thought I was being clever using a short link from one of those link shrinking sites so the post would look cleaner. Nobody saw it for over two weeks because the group's filter flagged it as spam, and by the time anyone spotted it, the conversation had moved on so far that only three people even replied. I ended up just copying the whole list into a plain text post with regular links, and that one got seen right away. The lesson stuck with me, now I never shorten links in groups, no matter how long and ugly they look.

Took me six months to figure that out too, same exact moment with my sister watching me. Half batches changed everything, not even close to the same result. The basket was always packed tight and the hot air just couldn't move around anything. Now I do smaller rounds and let the first batch sit on paper towels while the second cooks. Crowding is basically a whole different cooking method, steamed mush instead of crispy. Your mileage may vary but I will never go back to stuffing it full again.