# Help publishing a flow
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-publishing-a-flow/4864
**Category:** General
**Created:** [14 November 2018 13:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-publishing-a-flow/4864 "2018-11-14T13:14:00Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ampherion](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ampherion)
#### Post date: [14 November 2018 13:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-publishing-a-flow/4864/1 "2018-11-14T13:14:01Z")
I'm having an issue publishing a new flow. When I click on the the "create flow" button I get a spinning wheel icon for 2 seconds or so and then no other feedback. The flow doesn't publish to my gist or appear in the list of flows on [nodered.org](http://nodered.org)
I tried two different browsers (Chrome and IE) and the behavior is the same.
I can update a previously published flow and have those changes propagate through to [nodered.org](http://nodered.org).
Any help appreciated.
This is a cross post from Slack.
Thanks!
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### Author:  [@knolleary](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/knolleary)
#### Post date: [14 November 2018 13:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-publishing-a-flow/4864/2 "2018-11-14T13:15:46Z")
Hi @ampherion - not sure why its failing and I'm afraid I don't have time at the moment to investigate.
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### Author:  [@ampherion](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ampherion)
#### Post date: [15 November 2018 12:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-publishing-a-flow/4864/3 "2018-11-15T12:23:45Z")
@knolleary understood. I'll keep plugging a way at it. I do have a bit of progress to report. After trying different things including a new git account, the issue appears to be something with the flow itself. It's a big flow and I'm wondering if there are size limits on publishing flows?
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### Author:  [@ampherion](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ampherion)
#### Post date: [15 November 2018 22:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/help-publishing-a-flow/4864/4 "2018-11-15T22:57:37Z")
Success! I was able to publish the flow by using a placeholder for the flow, then updating the gist repository with the actual flow (2990 lines!), and finally refreshing.