Desiderius Price

That’s the question that even published authors have difficulty answering. If you have fans writing wikis and fanfiction based on your stories, then you’ll know you’ve got an audience/fan base (or at least had one before going on homophobic/transphobic rants on twitter). Movie deals help Per chapter & month does help, a bit. Simply cause you know they’re at least hitting “next-chapter” button. My main potter fanfic on FFN, for instance, has 420 views & 39 visitors so far this month. Of that, I see 48 views/29 visitors to the first chapter, while subsequent chapters are 3-8 views/3-5 visitors. The day-day histogram shows that about six bots came through, drowning out the metrics (or humans clicking next-next-next w/o reading or doing very-fast-skimming). I do know, though, many of the “hits” come from people finding a link to the story, maybe from another author’s favorites, and deciding to move on (or bookmarking it for later). AFF & AO3 only have the whole-story hit counters. By recording these daily, I know that a recent post can generate one to two hundred hits/day, but it’ll settle down to the single-digits per day within a week or two. However, as they’re only whole-story, I don’t know if it’s something browsing the first chapter & moving on, vs reading the whole thing & enjoying it. AO3 has Kudos and number of bookmarks/subscriptions available, so that helps measure some level of interest. FFN has the favorites & alerts, also relevant. But, when it comes to knowing that readers enjoy the story, reviews are that golden ticket, the best measure. However, maybe one reader in a hundred will leave a review, if that. (My *HIGHEST* review count here on AFF is NINE, the average is around 2-3 per story. My biggest is that main potter fanfic on FFN, with 180.) Moral of the story, if you want to trend set, try to always review when you read.

“Dragon prints” is basically the “hit count”, to your story. AO3 has the same metric, as “Hits” whole story. However, FF.net does have the per-chapter breakdown, which is more useful (that is until you start deleting chapters...) Not only per chapter, FF.net breaks it down per MONTH, by day within that month, and by (most likely) country of the visitor. FF.net’s breakdown is how I can tell bots are the primary readers of my stories there

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I habitually record my dragon prints, at least daily, so that’s where my 2:36PM EDT estimate came from (& the fact I had to hit refresh after thundercloud’s post to see the issue)… maybe it took time to sweep through the databases? (IIRC, there’s multiple databases.)

It would’ve happened some time between 2:36PM EDT and when Thundercloud first reported it. I can speculate, but that’s not helpful here. Hopefully it’s a simple script with a database backup that can fix it, otherwise it’ll be tedious.

Fixed mine, but yeah, if you log out, log back in, then it’ll hold (barring it happening again).

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Jefferey #14 (Deposition) is now up.

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