alwayswantedto

[MillieDynamite]

net

 

[lovecraft68]

Be sure to tell us how it works out.

I'll see if I can get anywhere. I have a feeling no, but its worth it to say I tried on the behalf of a departed friend.

 

[lovecraft68]

What is SOL?

Shit outta luck

Oh, wait, the story site...

 

[MillieDynamite]

Sent you an IM.

Hey!

What happened to alwayswantedto???

All his stories are gone?

 

[RejectReality]

Shit outta luck

Oh, wait, the story site...

I have a similar reaction to things like stickers and badges on cash registers proclaiming the manufacturer as "Collins POS" or something similar.

Bold of you to admit you make a piece of shit.

Cashier at the local grocery store saw me grin and shake my head when I saw the badge on their register. Asked me what. I explained. She said, "Well, it's not false advertising."

 

[OverconfidentSarcasm]

StoriesOnline. The other 'big' erotica site, though much smaller than Lit is.

Not that much smaller, but, yeah, it's the other site.

 

[RejectReality]

Not that much smaller, but, yeah, it's the other site.

Lit Global rank: 760.
SOL: 20,073.

Lit traffic: 46.1M monthly.
SOL: 3.3M

Not that much smaller?

 

[OverconfidentSarcasm]

Lit Global rank: 760.
SOL: 20,073.

Lit traffic: 46.1M monthly.
SOL: 3.3M

Not that much smaller?

Not entirely sure I understand what you just posted, but, as far as I THINK I understand it, those two numbers are utterly useless.

Site rankings between a Free-for-all site like Lit, that puts huge efforts into SEO so their ads produce some revenue, and a Members-only site like SOL, that doesn't do any SEO at all because it finances itself through a book store, are bound to look like this.
And if the average page-load on Lit is about 2.5MiB, while it is merely 0.2MiB on SOL, I'm also less than surprised if Lit causes more data traffic.

The metric I referred to when I claimed that it isn't that much smaller, was the amount of stories.

Lit claims to have ~680k stories, while SOL merely claims to have ~58k stories. But not only does SOL have a proper chaptering system that binds all "chapters" and "parts" into ONE story (while Lit claims every chapter to be a separate, stand-alone story), the average story on SOL is also A LOT longer than here (many, if not most, of the stories there have six-digit word-counts). Meanwhile, Lit has contests about trying to write stories that are as short as possible.

Again, if I misunderstood your post, then that's my fault. But simply by looking at the amount of content I could get to read, I don't see SOL as that much smaller than Lit.

 

[RejectReality]

Lit claims to have ~680k stories, while SOL merely claims to have ~58k stories. But not only does SOL have a proper chaptering system that binds all "chapters" and "parts" into ONE story (while Lit claims every chapter to be a separate, stand-alone story), the average story on SOL is also A LOT longer than here (many, if not most, of the stories there have six-digit word-counts). Meanwhile, Lit has contests about trying to write stories that are as short as possible.

There are 356 stories released in the last 30 days on the new stories tab. Six of them are over 100k words so far — including one that oddly doesn't make use of the series function and releases all parts as individual submissions.

There were 271 serials updated in the last 30 days. Maybe a quarter of them are 100k+ words. Didn't check to see what the crossover between the two lists is. That's not most. I'll give you many.

Lit has published 1319 submissions in the last seven days. The first two submissions in Sci-Fi&Fantasy from today represent stories at about 500k and 600k words so far, and that was just the first thing I checked. Here's one in E&V at 180k so far. One in T&CD that's about the same length. One in Incest that's around 300k. One in non-con of around 500k. Just from stories that released new chapters today. That's 6 I could easily find by looking at bigger chapter numbers. One of mine runs 20k words a chapter, so I could be missing some like that which are only on single-digit chapter numbers.

Lit is producing many six-digit word counts, and upping the ante with boatloads more single-shots and shorter chaptered works on top of it. You can't make this math work, even going back a decade when Lit was only releasing half as many stories a week. I've been on both sites for 20 years now. It is not, and never was "close" in any metric.

It's a great site. Wonderful author tools. Virtually no content rules. Fast posting. Good readership. Probably your best option for anything that can't meet Lit's content rules. Niches like Western do gangbusters when there's not even a good category for them here. It's just preposterous to claim it's "nearly as big" as Lit.

I don't know what to tell you if you think analytics measure data downloaded as opposed to visitors, or your mistaken belief that Laz isn't paying attention to SEO. Book sales are a relatively new thing, BTW. For most of its history, it was funded by paid memberships, which required people to find the site.