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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[brinimc.livejournal.com]

One of my friends who writes was telling me she hates AO3 cause of the lack of comments and I love AO3 cause of the ease of reading and how to can narrow my searches so well. Since I want to encourage her to write on there more I went to all my bookmarks and left comments. After that I tried to comment at least one word on everything I read except for awful stuff cause people respond VERY BADLY to any kind of critique. Hopefully people keep posting there.

[birdsofshore]

Commenting on your bookmarks is a great idea! I think people will keep using AO3 because of the ease of using the site, just as you say. I like the nice clean layout, but it can feel a bit impersonal on there sometimes; LJ is just so friendly.

[brinimc.livejournal.com]

Agreed. The only thing is when you're new to a fandom lj can be hard to navigate and find the good fics. I wish there was a way to set them up like kindle books. "If you like this fic you might enjoy this fic..." type of thing. And when i search for fics on ao3 i always list them by kudos cause the ratio of kudos to comments is crazy!