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[omorka]

Well, someone is reading my stuff over on AO3. I don't have the phenomenally impressive hit counts of the popular authors in the big fandoms, but my Firefly stuff, in particular, seems to be getting noticed by someone.

Unfortunately, my hit-to-comment ratio is pretty miserable. This seems to be relatively common on AO3, which puzzles me.

Also, the difference in size between the very small fandoms (StarCon, Sneakers, etc.), the small fandoms (GB/RGB, Eureka, etc.), and the medium-sized fandoms (Firefly, in particular) is really, really obvious from the hit counts. Oddly enough, the two big fandoms I write in - Whoniverse and Trek - don't have much larger hit counts than Firefly. Maybe the Firefly fandom is hungrier for fic?

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[moontyger.livejournal.com]

It's also not just size of fandoms, it's the kind of fandom. I mean, they know that anime/manga and video game fandoms, even when huge in themselves, do not get much traffic over there. (Hence probably why I get basically zero comments.) I heard a plan for trying to fix that awhile back and then didn't keep track of it.

That said, that doesn't say anything about Who, Trek, and Firefly; I'm honestly not sure why that would be. However, I would speculate that it also somehow has to do with the traffic the site gets and not the size of the fandom in general.

[lodessa.livejournal.com]

I think there is an optimal fandom size for getting read. It has to be large enough that people think to look for in consistently, but not large enough to get lost in the swarm.

[scarfman]

Oddly enough, the two big fandoms I write in - Whoniverse and Trek - don't have much larger hit counts than Firefly. Maybe the Firefly fandom is hungrier for fic?

It could be. There must be more other places to look for them than Firefly. But speaking as someone who works in all three, I've found Firefly harder to write for well than the others.