What happened to the comment section? Please someone cue me in
Hi everyone!
I have a question for those who have been in fandom continuously for the last decade or two. I can be considered a fandom dinosaur myself, but I kind of fell out of fanfiction and only recently made a comeback
For the last couple of years, I wrote stories in a very small fandom. The feedback was positive, even if sparse compared to what I remember back in the 2000s, but I assumed the reason was just that the fandom was so niche
Recently, though, I wrote a story in a huge fandom. I’m getting hits, I’m getting kudos, and people are bookmarking the story. So I guess people like it. I have no way of knowing what exactly people like tho since barely anyone is commenting
I got one comment (and they liked two of my favorite moments, yay!), and I’m really appreciative of it, but like...
Is this just what it's like now? I remember people would come and quote the stuff they liked, or debate things when they disagreed with a characterization, and we would discuss different takes. And we would have comment threads while now it's a comment, my reply, and that's it. Honestly, it kinda feels like screaming into the void
Is this fandom-specific, or did I miss a massive paradigm shift?