On average, how many comments do you receive per fic/chapter? Are you satisfied with this amount?
I've been seeing a lot of thoughts lately regarding a universal decline in comments, and I think this might help me better understand how, exactly, this is happening.
I'm primarily a ficlet/drabble writer these days, and looking at all the fics I've posted recently, most of them only have one comment. I sometimes receive up to 4 comments on a fic that I guess really resonated with readers. By far the biggest outlier, out of all the fics I've posted in the past year, is a ficlet for a new anime that was airing at the time I posted it; this ficlet has 9 comments.
I'm fully-aware that 1-4 comments per fic isn't an awful lot, but for me personally, I think that's enough to satisfy me. I'd love to receive more, of course, but I'm glad to be receiving any comments at all and even just that one comment per ficlet/drabble is enough to help encourage me to keep writing. I completely understand why someone in a similar position might think differently, though!