maybe you need to interact with posts. though i didn't have to but my first post fit on a single page. i just clicked to "submit a story" in the top right corner and everything worked from there. i use an older computer so the browsers are old too and i tried the others to see if that had any effect. i wonder if yours is even more outdated than mine to have some quirks causing that disfunctionality. at least you can make replies. maybe it's random who gets to post automatically?