Comments up at AO3?

[birdsofshore]

I hesitated about posting this, because it might be annoying to read if you're NOT getting comments, but I decided to go for it anyway. It's not often we hear good news about comments!

I feel like there might have been an upsurge in commenting at AO3. I was lucky and had comments for my erised fic over the last few weeks, and I'm still getting the odd one on that fic which is lovely, but in general, I'm getting one or two comments (on other fics) most days. This is NOT usually the case for me, and it's quite delightful.

Do you think there might be a swing back towards interacting with writers, rather than just leaving Kudos or navigating away? It would be super if there was. Kudos and hits are all very well, but comments - oh, nothing makes my heart go pitter-pat like a real juicy comment. ♥ Thank you so much to all of you who still leave them, whether here or on AO3.

EDITED TO ADD: this is in no way meant to make people feel uncomfortable or pressured about comments. I know some people get stressed about commenting / not commenting. DON'T WORRY! Read fic and be happy.

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[digthewriter]

I think maybe people are finally settling in from the holiday stress and reading long fics.

I don't subscribe to kudos notification so i have no idea when ppl leave me kudos, but not much has changed for me for comments, though, also possibly b/c I didn't write for anything big this holiday season!

♥ Hopefully commenting more will become a thing again!

[birdsofshore]

It's interesting to see how holidays affect Kudos and comments and so on. I remember there was one year that America seemed to spend most of Thanksgiving reading H/D smut, from the sudden surge in my Kudos notifications. ;)

Why do you choose not to get notifications, by the way? If you don't mind me asking, of course.

[digthewriter]

I'd turned it off a while ago b/c I was getting way too many notifications and emails and I would get excited about getting a comment, and realise it wasn't one. I turned it off as a test, and then I just never turned it back on.

[birdsofshore]

I only get one email re: Kudos a day, I don't know if that's the case for everyone... It would drive me mad to get individual ones, I think, nice as they are!