I know you people have been waiting with baited breath lo, these many moons for the second installment of my Knight Rider recs. But I need to talk about Yuletide first.
I am totally more likely to leave a comment on a fic that has absolutely none and not bother with one that has tons. It's pretty variable for the in between numbers though.
The performance thing is interesting. Astolat's post about the technical side of things kind of mentions this, but not too explicitly: the way things used to work, once you actually got your fic uploaded, the page it was on loaded really, really fast. However, the uploading process was a nightmare. The way things are set up on the AO3, uploading is much less likely to explode the archive, but loading individual story pages can be pretty slow. I think this gives people without much clue about databases this false sense that the old archive was "good enough" and that we could have squeezed just one more year out of it. (Wrong, wrong, wrong, of course, but I see where people are getting that.)
I am totally more likely to leave a comment on a fic that has absolutely none and not bother with one that has tons. It's pretty variable for the in between numbers though.
Right--people are definitely less likely to comment on a story after some time has passed and/or its garnered a lot of visible feedback. And actually, didn't there used to be a way to sort stories in the archive by number of comments? I remember people used to be really keen on giving feedback to the authors who, for some reason or other, hadn't had as much.
I totally remember seeing you around because of your cute icon. :)
The uploading process for AO3 really did seem very smooth (not that I have anything to compare it to, Yuletide-wise), and for me, anyway, I would be way more stressed and upset about uploading snafus than anything else. Especially when I'm pushing the deadline.
:D I do see why people like to match the icon to the topic, but it's kind of nice to have that consistent public face... or something.
I tend to prefer it this way too, but it was certainly nice in the past that, once the nervewracking upload process was done, everything went smoothly. I can't entirely blame people for being irritated. (Even if they're totally overreacting! OMG CHILL! *cough*)
I am totally more likely to leave a comment on a fic that has absolutely none and not bother with one that has tons. It's pretty variable for the in between numbers though.
The performance thing is interesting. Astolat's post about the technical side of things kind of mentions this, but not too explicitly: the way things used to work, once you actually got your fic uploaded, the page it was on loaded really, really fast. However, the uploading process was a nightmare. The way things are set up on the AO3, uploading is much less likely to explode the archive, but loading individual story pages can be pretty slow. I think this gives people without much clue about databases this false sense that the old archive was "good enough" and that we could have squeezed just one more year out of it. (Wrong, wrong, wrong, of course, but I see where people are getting that.)
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Right--people are definitely less likely to comment on a story after some time has passed and/or its garnered a lot of visible feedback. And actually, didn't there used to be a way to sort stories in the archive by number of comments? I remember people used to be really keen on giving feedback to the authors who, for some reason or other, hadn't had as much.
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The uploading process for AO3 really did seem very smooth (not that I have anything to compare it to, Yuletide-wise), and for me, anyway, I would be way more stressed and upset about uploading snafus than anything else. Especially when I'm pushing the deadline.
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I tend to prefer it this way too, but it was certainly nice in the past that, once the nervewracking upload process was done, everything went smoothly. I can't entirely blame people for being irritated. (Even if they're totally overreacting! OMG CHILL! *cough*)
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