I'm on ao3 but not because of reader counts. It's because it's easy to upload fic there and organise it and it's easily accessible. What I use it for:1) mark fics for later. I find something I want to read and mark it as later so I won't forget. Later, I can go through my history and click the "marked for later" button and the stuff I want to read is saved there. When I've read it, I can mark it as read and it vanishes off the reading list. Depending on how much I liked it, I'll do one or more of the following:
a) comment (I always do this - or try to do it at any rate) b) kudos if I liked it and c) bookmark as rec if I liked it enough to want to rec it. There's also d) write a note on the bookmark, either for own reference or to tell others why I liked it.
About bookmarks: fics bookmarked as recs will show up in the recs list thing on ao3. It updates constantly and can be a nice way to find reading material. If you only make a bookmark, I don't think it shows up but will be only saved to your own bookmarks. That's why I prefer to bookmark as rec. I want to give the fic that extra exposure. Advertisement, if you like.
2) archive for recs. if I like a fic enough to bookmark it as a rec, it'll appear in my bookmarks which is easily browsable via tags and I can always find the fic I'm looking for when I want to re-read it.
3) this is probably the most important for me, but the option of downloading fics as epubs is the best ever seriously. I never read fics on ao3 itself as I prefer to read on my iPad and not in front of the computer. I download the epubs onto my iPad and read them there. At the end of the ePub there's a link straight back to the comment page for the fic. So I can download a fic, read it whenever I want and then I can conveniently go leave a comment, mark the fic as read, kudos and bookmark. And then I'm done with it. I keep the ePub on the pad unless I didn't like the fic, in which case I'll delete the file.
As a matter of fact, I've got the hungry ePub on my iPad just waiting for me to read it. :)
I like the kudos option because some people have issues with commenting and/or social interaction, simply don't know what to say or think "I liked it!" is a stupid comment. They can leave a kudos as a sign that they liked it. It's an easy way out maybe, but I don't think the kudos function has a negative influence on the amount of comments. The stats page can be fun to look at but I'm not really fussed. I used to care a lot about my stats (I used to post hit counters on LJ with my fics) but by now I just don't care anymore.
I don't know if this comment shed any light on ao3 for you?
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Date: 2013-09-01 08:51 pm (UTC)a) comment (I always do this - or try to do it at any rate) b) kudos if I liked it and c) bookmark as rec if I liked it enough to want to rec it. There's also d) write a note on the bookmark, either for own reference or to tell others why I liked it.
About bookmarks: fics bookmarked as recs will show up in the recs list thing on ao3. It updates constantly and can be a nice way to find reading material. If you only make a bookmark, I don't think it shows up but will be only saved to your own bookmarks. That's why I prefer to bookmark as rec. I want to give the fic that extra exposure. Advertisement, if you like.
2) archive for recs. if I like a fic enough to bookmark it as a rec, it'll appear in my bookmarks which is easily browsable via tags and I can always find the fic I'm looking for when I want to re-read it.
3) this is probably the most important for me, but the option of downloading fics as epubs is the best ever seriously. I never read fics on ao3 itself as I prefer to read on my iPad and not in front of the computer. I download the epubs onto my iPad and read them there. At the end of the ePub there's a link straight back to the comment page for the fic. So I can download a fic, read it whenever I want and then I can conveniently go leave a comment, mark the fic as read, kudos and bookmark. And then I'm done with it. I keep the ePub on the pad unless I didn't like the fic, in which case I'll delete the file.
As a matter of fact, I've got the hungry ePub on my iPad just waiting for me to read it. :)
I like the kudos option because some people have issues with commenting and/or social interaction, simply don't know what to say or think "I liked it!" is a stupid comment. They can leave a kudos as a sign that they liked it. It's an easy way out maybe, but I don't think the kudos function has a negative influence on the amount of comments.
The stats page can be fun to look at but I'm not really fussed. I used to care a lot about my stats (I used to post hit counters on LJ with my fics) but by now I just don't care anymore.
I don't know if this comment shed any light on ao3 for you?