The all-time most read list and the 2020s

[MajorRewrite]

What is the most read story posted in the 2020s? I scrolled through the all-time list to find out.

Unless I missed something, there isn’t a single story from the 2020s on the all-time most read list. Not one in the top 250.

This makes me think it’d be nice to have a “last 5 years” most read list to fill the gap between the “last 12 months” list and the all-time list. It would help readers find more stories that are fairly recent.

 

[StillStunned]

Yup. The most recent stories seem to be two from 2017 and two from 2018.

Perhaps it's time to write "Hairy mother pussy breeding incest" after all.

 

[mildlyaroused]

By the nature of the lists, I suppose it's difficult for newer works to break into that threshold. Being on the top list has a compounding affect, in that those stories will get more views, which will re-affirm their spots on that list.

 

[Cagivagurl]

No new story will ever be able to knock the older stories off the top spot...
Every day a new reader joins the site. They will by nature be drawn to the top stories.
The longer a story stays posted within Lit. The more reads, favourites, comments it will get.
Those lists will never change.
It's the nature of the beast...

BTW... I'm OK with that...

Cagivagurl

 

[KeithD]

BTW... I'm OK with that...

Cagivagurl

So am I, since I don't look at those lists.

 

[MajorRewrite]

No new story will ever be able to knock the older stories off the top spot...
Every day a new reader joins the site. They will by nature be drawn to the top stories.
The longer a story stays posted within Lit. The more reads, favourites, comments it will get.
Those lists will never change.
It's the nature of the beast...

BTW... I'm OK with that...

Cagivagurl

That’s why I suggested a “last 5 years” list, to highlight more recent stories. More exposure for a wider list of stories seems like a good thing.

 

[Cagivagurl]

That’s why I suggested a “last 5 years” list, to highlight more recent stories. More exposure for a wider list of stories seems like a good thing.

I think we have to accept it is what it is...
The list is just a list...
It highlights the most read stories. Or at least the most opened stories.

Cagivagurl

 

[SimonDoom]

Actually, we're not going to have to wait very long. As of today, the number 250 story on the all-time most viewed list has 1,568,000+ views. Breeding My Cheating Mom's Body (how's that for a title) was published just last year and already has over 1.4 million. So it will be on the list within a couple of months. Lovecraft's The Model Sister has over 1 million views in just under 1 year, so it will be on the list within a year or so. Those two stories are extreme outliers, however.

 

[MajorRewrite]

I think we have to accept it is what it is...
The list is just a list...
It highlights the most read stories. Or at least the most opened stories.

Cagivagurl

Um, do you realize there are “last 12 months” and “last 30 days” lists? Adding a “last 5 years” list would not be unprecedented nor difficult.

 

[SimonDoom]

Um, do you realize there are “last 12 months” and “last 30 days” lists? Adding a “last 5 years” list would not be unprecedented nor difficult.

I'm not sure how much appetite there is for more lists. I do, however, think the Site would do well to beef up its search capabilities, so you could search, for example, for the 200 most-viewed stories within a given number of years from the present.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Breeding My Cheating Mom's Body (how's that for a title) was published just last year and already has over 1.4 million.

This sentence tells us so, so much about Literotica, the popularity of certain kinks, and the desires of readers. Pin it

 

[StillStunned]

This sentence tells us so, so much about Literotica, the popularity of certain kinks, and the desires of readers. Pin it

Like I mentioned above, "Hairy mother pussy breeding incest" should be an immediate hit.

The title is up for grabs, by the way. I don't think I'll want to use it.

 

[SimonDoom]

Like I mentioned above, "Hairy mother pussy breeding incest" should be an immediate hit.

The title is up for grabs, by the way. I don't think I'll want to use it.

I think it's even better if you add "In The Backseat" to the end of it.

 

[StillStunned]

I think it's even better if you add "In The Backseat" to the end of it.

Yeah, but character limits... You'd have to add it in the tagline.

 

[TheLobster]

If I counted correctly, "Breeding Backseat Mom Hairy Pussy" seems to be just within the limit!

 

[SimonDoom]

Those two stories I named, Lovecraft's The Model Sister and Wordwa's Breeding My Cheating Mom's Body, illustrate the uncertainty of views as a guide for "popularity" or success. Wordwa's story was published just last November, and it already has over 1.4 million views after not quite 7 months, which is astonishing. But it only has 8 comments and 197 favorites, which indicates to me that people are clicking on it because of the salacious, eye-catching title, but not necessarily reading it. By Comparison, the Model Sister 400,000 fewer views but over 2000 favorites and an astonishing 359 comments, both huge numbers. The Site doesn't make vote totals widely available, but vote totals are probably a better relative measure of how many people have actually read the story than view totals (I say "relative" because we have no way of knowing how many people actually read a story compared to those that view it or vote on it).

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Those two stories I named, Lovecraft's The Model Sister and Wordwa's Breeding My Cheating Mom's Body, illustrate the uncertainty of views as a guide for "popularity" or success. Wordwa's story was published just last November, and it already has over 1.4 million views after not quite 7 months, which is astonishing. But it only has 8 comments and 197 favorites, which indicates to me that people are clicking on it because of the salacious, eye-catching title, but not necessarily reading it. By Comparison, the Model Sister 400,000 fewer views but over 2000 favorites and an astonishing 359 comments, both huge numbers. The Site doesn't make vote totals widely available, but vote totals are probably a better relative measure of how many people have actually read the story than view totals (I say "relative" because we have no way of knowing how many people actually read a story compared to those that view it or vote on it).

I haven't read either story, but logic says that people were attracted by the title of Wordwa's story but likely didn't find it well written or catering to their tastes, thus the low number of comments and favorites.

 

[THBGato]

I never look at most read. I didn't know it existed until you mentioned it. I basically read:

- my favourite writers' favourite writers
- the top ranked list* for my sole genre of interest, then the rest of the stories by those writers on the top ranked list
- the occasional story recommended on here/the story feedback forum

*That's very possible for new writers to get on. I've topped it three times now. It's staying there that's tricky!

 

[Cagivagurl]

Honestly... I never look at lists.
other peoples tastes and mine are so different that the list means nothing.
I read from one list... My own.
Any story posted from my favourite writers. That list is very small. I guess I know what I like.
When searching for something new, I look at the tags... Try to remember if I've read anything by the writer in the past...
I do think that the Site could upgrade their search functions, but it is what it is.

Cagivagurl

 

[MillieDynamite]

I wonder when we will stop writing 2024 and just put' 24. ' It has nothing to do with anything; I am just curious. Sometime back, around two centuries ago, diaries started showing dates of April 2, '30. And people would say, I got out of the army, year after the end of the war, March '66.

I'm sure this was an unwanted derailment, but I'm curious.

 

[lovecraft68]

Those two stories I named, Lovecraft's The Model Sister and Wordwa's Breeding My Cheating Mom's Body, illustrate the uncertainty of views as a guide for "popularity" or success. Wordwa's story was published just last November, and it already has over 1.4 million views after not quite 7 months, which is astonishing. But it only has 8 comments and 197 favorites, which indicates to me that people are clicking on it because of the salacious, eye-catching title, but not necessarily reading it. By Comparison, the Model Sister 400,000 fewer views but over 2000 favorites and an astonishing 359 comments, both huge numbers. The Site doesn't make vote totals widely available, but vote totals are probably a better relative measure of how many people have actually read the story than view totals (I say "relative" because we have no way of knowing how many people actually read a story compared to those that view it or vote on it).

Just checked and Model Sister has 9,703 votes.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I wonder when we will stop writing 2024 and just put' 24. ' It has nothing to do with anything; I am just curious. Sometime back, around two centuries ago, diaries started showing dates of April 2, '30. And people would say, I got out of the army, year after the end of the war, March '66.

I'm sure this was an unwanted derailment, but I'm curious.

You've got to factor in increasing longevity. There's a bunch of people still alive who were born in the 1920s. If they're in the Commonwealth, centenarians get a telegram from the King (or whatever he uses nowadays).

 

[alohadave]

I wonder when we will stop writing 2024 and just put' 24. ' It has nothing to do with anything; I am just curious. Sometime back, around two centuries ago, diaries started showing dates of April 2, '30. And people would say, I got out of the army, year after the end of the war, March '66.

I'm sure this was an unwanted derailment, but I'm curious.

At least people stopped saying Two Thousand XX, and just say 20 xx now.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

You've got to factor in increasing longevity. There's a bunch of people still alive who were born in the 1920s. If they're in the Commonwealth, centenarians get a telegram from the King (or whatever he uses nowadays).

Cards, now. People celebrating Diamond Weddings can also apply. (105 and later birthdays, 65th, Platinum and later anniversaries also qualify.)

There's been the odd issue where software hasn't recorded 4-figures correctly and invites centenarians for their baby jabs.

I suppose if I had to write the date a lot, I might use '24, but as is, it must be monthly or less that I write or type dd/mm/2024. I've written one cheque in the last decade.

 

[TheLobster]

2032 is the first year that you can spell with two digits in a date without it being ambiguous whether you mean dd/mm/yy or yy/mm/dd. Until then, it’s just less confusing to use all four digits.