User blog comment:Avery FireFlame/Something that may help Revive the Wiki/@comment-1874924-20121231053839

This isn't just a problem with lesser-known stories. My own story used to get good feedback, but the feedback level has collapsed. The Ninth Night chapter (posted only last night) is too recent to draw any conclusions, but Eighth Night got only one comment--from my wife--and two poll responses in two months. (I did get one brief, general comment on my user talk page.) And this for a story that, according to the page visit counter (when it used to work--it currently doesn't) gets 3 or 4 hits a day even when there hasn't been a recent update.

I've gotten some comments on Chat suggesting that a lot of LTDI's readers have fallen behind, which illustrates the problem that people aren't reading as much as they used to. Indeed, if the Ninth Night chapter doesn't get better feedback than Eighth Night did, I may put LTDI's posting schedule on hiatus until I see some indication that people have caught up.

I have often warned writers against assuming that few comments means few readers, but it's frustrating to have little or no feedback, especially since I've used some of the early feedback to make my story better. In LTDI, both Sadie and the Lindsay/Justin pairing got additional scenes in direct response to early reader feedback.

It's not just my story, either. Lilac's wonderful story, Total Drama Island: For Your Entertainment was (and perhaps still is) a hugely popular story. It has far and away the highest visit count (over 5,000) of any in-progress story; yet apart from a couple of Final 3 guesses, its talk page hasn't had a single comment from anyone but me in seven chapters.