Commenting Behavior + Calibre

This meta post about AO3 comments by osteophage discusses how tumblr culture might explain the lack of commenting on AO3. There are also some interesting links in the notes. I have posted about how the 'please please comment' posts on tumblr are super annoying to me, so this was very relevant to my interests. I'm curious about what other fellow tumblr users think? I generally find fic recs or links on tumblr, and then I actually read fic and comment on AO3. I use tumblr and AO3 very differently, and I actually like that tumblr users post their stuff to AO3. For me, AO3 pre-dated my tumblr so I hadn't really thought of them as two sites working together or influencing each other in that way.

This response by yourlibrarian points out the huge LJ connection. I remember when AO3 opened and it was literally considered just an archive to save work. Fic was always posted on someone's LJ first - and that's where there would be a bunch of comments and excitement, and then there would also be an AO3 link available for saving the fic. I think commenting on LJ was so much easier/more welcoming because most of the time, I KNEW the folks who were posting fics. They were on my friend's list, or they were members of the fandom/ship communities I was in. They commented on my stuff, so I commented on their stuff. Oftentimes, people were posting their fic as WIPs to their LJs and then posting on AO3 when it was completed. So now I'm wondering, should we post our fic on dreamwidth more?

Also, it feels weird when I post comments on AO3 and never get a response back. Although I'm very guilty of letting my AO3 comments linger forever before responding. Maybe this is a bad habit because I go to AO3 expecting to just read, whereas when I log on to DW or Discord, I'm usually planning on engaging with other people.

P.S. I learned about calibre in the Escapade discord server. This post discusses how to use the plug-in. Do you use it? I could see it being useful to read and save longfic.