Two questions on comments

[TxRad]

When was the last date you got a comment?

When was that last story side update thing where it was down?

 

[JGittes]

The last comment date is August 11, but I don't get many comments.

I don't recall the exact date of the story side update where the site was down, but it was recent.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

The last comment I got was 12 hours ago. The one before that, was over a week ago. I thought the comments seemed to be slowing down.

 

[Rob_Royale]

Fourteen hours ago.

No idea.

 

[SimonDoom]

I received a comment 9 hours ago.

 

[MrPixel]

My most recent comment was 2 days ago.

I wore out the search engine looking for keywords that might be in posts mentioning the site being down: maintenance, server, upgrade, update, login, outage. I did limit it to posts after 8/1. Found nothing relevant. We are obviously a patient bunch; any other forum there'd be post after post with folks wringing their hands about not being able to access the site.

 

[Smuttyandfun]

The last comment I got was 12 hours ago. The one before that, was over a week ago. I thought the comments seemed to be slowing down.

Just got my first comment on my latest story 5 minutes ago.

 

[TxRad]

Okay then, maybe it's just me or my stories.

 

[EmilyMiller]

2 hours ago. Have been getting about the normal number.

Em

 

[PennameWombat]

Okay then, maybe it's just me or my stories.

My most recent comment is July 26... I don't track them all that carefully, but not having any since then isn't all that unusual for me. I haven't noticed any abnormal slowdown around views, votes, etc.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Comment received today.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

When was the last date you got a comment?

When was that last story side update thing where it was down?

My last comment was yesterday

The story site went down last Wednesday (8/23)

 

[Bramblethorn]

https://www.literotica.com/comments/ looks like comments are coming through on some stories at least.

 

[impresso]

Why are authors so concerned about comments, but hardly show up there themselves, like they don't care? )

 

[LexxRuthless]

My last comments were 1, 9, and 17 hours ago.

I was locked out of the story side on Wednesday the 23rd for about 3 hours, while the site was down for maintenance. There was a link to the Lit Twitter / X page, but I didn't see a post for that day. People who were still logged in were posting on the Forums during that time, but I couldn't log in to post anything until the maintenance concluded.

 

[PrincessArianrhod]

Why are authors so concerned about comments, but hardly show up there themselves, like they don't care? )

In most cases, they're too busy writing to read anything, never mind write comments as well. It does happen, though.

 

[Mastered_again]

Last public comment 8/22
Some emailed feedback since then plus two new followers
I've learned not to expect too much

 

[PrincessArianrhod]

*Feeling a little called out*

*Goes back to writing WIP*

I'm as guilty as anyone. Since I took up the pen to indulge my own literary erotica stylings, I've read precisely three stories and one of those was a proof reading/editing request. In my defence, I did leave a comment on one of them.

 

[TxRad]

With the Summer Lovin contest going on comments just seem off across the board.

I don't track things so it must be me.

Thanks for the input.

 

[ElectricBlue]

Why are authors so concerned about comments, but hardly show up there themselves, like they don't care? )

They're writing, not reading.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Why are authors so concerned about comments, but hardly show up there themselves, like they don't care? )

Because we're hugely outnumbered by non-authors.

 

[Djmac1031]

My last comment was two days ago.

I feel I do pretty well with comments, I also try to leave them as I can.

 

[SimonDoom]

Why are authors so concerned about comments, but hardly show up there themselves, like they don't care? )

I don't think this is true. Some authors don't read other stories, but many do. On average I probably read a few stories a week at Literotica. If I really like the story, I will almost always comment. If my reaction is "meh," I might not if I don't feel like I have something constructive to say.

As Bramblethorn pointed out, readers vastly outnumber authors, but I would estimate that authors make up a disproportionate number of the commenters on my stories.

 

[impresso]

I don't think this is true. Some authors don't read other stories, but many do.

I mean, in the comments on their own stories. The fingers of one hand are enough to count the number of times I've seen authors in conversation with their reader )
(I always look through the comments of stories I like)

 

[impresso]

That's because we can't reply directly to the people.

Oh, I see. I didn't know about that. Tnx