Because it is posted on your own time. I get better response at 6 am. (Around midnight in Washington, DC). But AO3 still marks it as 6 am. That means that if people in the American time-zone (which means the majority of AO3 members) post anything during the night (when most people post), it'll still be the 'newest story' in the. Master the best time to post Research shows that the success of a viral campaign can be influenced by the time that campaign is started as well; a study by BuzzSumo that analyzed over 100 million articles came to the conclusion that the best day to publish an article is on a Tuesday, and that articles published on a Tuesday generally get up to. Lord of the Rings Fanfiction is Moving to the AO3 Published: Sat 17 Apr 2021 01:05PM EDT Comments: 18 Lord of the Rings Fanfiction, a Lord of the Rings fanfiction archive, is being imported to the Archive of Our Own (AO3).
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I usually post in the evening... but since I live in Italy, MY evening is YOUR (U.S.) morning, LOL
Anyway, I don't think there's a best time to post. If peolpe want to read your story, they'll read it, as soon you post it... or the next week, too.
The BIG difference is posting in a large fandom or in a small one, cause it varies the time your story stays on the first page, and so the possible number of NEW viewers.
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I think the most part of people post in the evening, or, at least, people who work during the day. But I don't think it affects the number of new viewers.
I don't notice so much difference... morning... evening... during the week... during the week-end... the number of my views is constant along the whole week and month after month (with some increase as soon as after I post, but I've had peaks of viewers totally unrelated to a new post, so unexiplicable to me); and sometimes, in a day, I have more viewers for stories I posted MONTHS (or YEARS!!) ago than for the story just posted, so... I DON'T UNDERSTAND why, how and when readers decide to read a story (some readers read stories already completed, for example, so they won't read your story no matter when you post it, but just when you complete it).
