I am having a similar issue – I have a multisite installation set up with 12 sites, 11 of which are subdomains. Users have reported issues with their posts not showing up right away on the front page of the subdomain sites even though they should be according to the W3TC settings. I’m not using memcached for page caching, just using disk: enhanced.
Below is my W3TC config file:
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