Serious Bug With Published Mission Arcs
I've had this sort of bug before, edited & republished and the old version comes back.
I've found when I republish I'm better off not doing anything for 5 minutes or so to let it catch up and settle.
If it's still going wonky on you with after you've left it a few minutes that is a pretty serious bug.
Hard to tell, as I tend to save even the most minor changes, just to be certain I've not lost "inspiration" (ahem) Sooo many perfect first draft puns lost! However I'll swap to waiting 5 minutes before returning to the document as you suggest to see if that helps...
Odd one this, as I can't replicate it exactly; but I'm working on a published mission arc, Apocalypse Cow (ID 27552), in part due to size savings from the ability to set your own levels. But this led to me noticing the bug originally; I edited the arc a little, added some more text, and removed the battles forcing the spawn level originally. I republished, then reopened it after "Apocalypse Cow Has Been Republished" appeared in the chat screen to keep editing. Carry on a bit, save again, and come back... and then notice the battles are back. I didn't put them back. There's only one version online, so it's put them back in itself some how.
Odd, but I delete and carry on. And then over the evening I notice it's randomly removing new edits, randomly reverting old versions of text boxes (sometimes back to something I changed hours ago), and sometimes it would even insert changes doing nothing more than opening it; saving the file to local instead; and then going to check the local... only to see it now differs from the published version.
I'm not sure what or why it's doing this; It could be that there's a version lag server side, so what I think I'm working on is a much older version, which doesn't show until I get to see what the server thinks I have...? Please look into this though, because I've had to repeat some not-quite-as-polished new cow puns about 10 times in places now!