User blog comment:JERealize/Does Anyone Care?/@comment-1874924-20130227073530

I've skimmed bits of TD America, but for various reasons I just haven't had the time to really get into it. I've fallen behind on other stories as well. However, I've often warned dispirited writers against assuming that few comments means few readers, because most readers don't even look at the talk page, let alone leave comments. An example I frequently cite is my Courtney story, which had all of four comments on its talk page when it won Featured Story. (It still has only six, including my own.) In fact, the main reason I left it on the FS ballot month after month was because that was how I was getting my feedback. You might want to do that with TD America once it reaches 50% completion, which is the FS eligibility requirement.

It is a problem when readers fall behind, because people who are playing catch-up don't usually comment on any chapter but the most recent if they comment at all. So trust me, you're not by any means the only one with this problem. Part of the problem is that most of the people who used to comment regularly on the stories they read are no longer active on the wiki. A notable victim of this is Lilac's story. For my money, it's the best OC competition story on the wiki, yet no one but me has given any feedback on the last seven chapters or so.