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There have been a few discussions around the last few weeks about commenting on the Archive of Our Own, and while we have some ideas of our own for improving and encouraging more feedback in general, we would love to invite more ideas from all of you!
Some of our current plans:
- basic performance improvements to the comment form so it works quicker :)
- a "kudos" feature that lets a reader indicate (with an optional one-line comment) if they enjoyed a story, complete with happy icon:
- adding more nifty stats including # of downloads, and referring pages in the last month or so (so author can see if they were recced somewhere)
- "badges" for heavy commenters (possibly with bonuses for commenting on older stories)
- marking stories on the Reading History page as commented-on or not, allowing you to sort by this status
- an option to reply to multiple comments at once
- a "private" comment option to send comments just to the author
- Adding an option to send an invite to people who comment without an AO3 account.
- This is a more general feature: an optional "tip of the day" that will show the first time you come to the archive on a given day, which might point you to a new feature, suggest creating a new bookmark, or suggest posting a comment on a read story.
Do you have other ideas? Thoughts on these? Let us know what would make commenting more fun, or what other kinds of feedback you would like to get on your works!