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.

Comments

[dicta-contrion.livejournal.com]

I'll admit, I'm still not great about every chapter. There's just so much fandom to do that if it's down to leaving comments on every chapter, or reccing, or answering fic requests, or writing fic...sigh. I need a time turner.

However: OMG PLEASE NEVER BE SORRY YOUR COMMENTS ARE AMAZING PRECIOUS TREASURES (as are you, but in the singular.)

I don't think either of those things would turn people off at all. I know people love and appreciate having places to request fics. I don't think commenting posts are a bad thing, and they're related to recs. And if you're tagging things people will be able to find what they want, so it won't get in the way of the usability of your tumblr. Like, I usually keep a queue running and reblog stuff all the time and then just have all of my recs under one tag (and a masterlist on lj that I link to from tumblr) so people can find them. Ultimately it's down to what you want the purpose of your tumblr to be, I think, and what your purpose is on tumblr. If you want more followers, posting more and answering requests would probably help. If you want to crosspost only, do that! I'm realizing more and more that tumblr is only fun and useful if it's doing what you want it to do and using it in ways that are gratifying for you, so my biggest piece of advice is to do whatever will make you happy there. And if you want to discuss more, I'm happy to!

(And thank you/sorry birds!)

[capitu]

I am trying to do it, but usually when I read long fic I download the epub and, you know, get going, so that's why I left a single (big) comment. But the next time I'm sitting down and reading it on line, I'm definitely doing it. :)

I hadn't thought about requests because I only got two, most I've gotten have been replied in privately, so it hasn't been an issue until I got these, and I thought, hey, I do have some recs for these requests. So I'm doing that now, too.

Or will, in a bit. Unless I screw it up. LOL Tumblr still confuses me. XD

*HUGS*