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> Honestly didn't realise you had to manually submit, thought it just happened automatically.

in my experience, you don't have to manually submit in streetcomplete, and it does happen automatically.

> a few months worth of my travels

Was this travels in your local neighbourhood, going home daily, or one trip to another country or in a very rural area? I'm asking if you had constant data connectivity, intermittent, once daily, or none during that time?

It sucks to have a bad first experience from a Gatekeeping community. Of course, as newbs, we try to move slowly with small changes first to test the waters. That worked for me, sorry that it did not work for you. I also take the point that was raised about not editing based off months-old data.