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This is Page 37 and last page of the first act of "We Stand"!

When I started the project, I made the promise that I would finish at least the first act and see how it was received before deciding if I should go on with the subsequent acts. What I did not expect though, is how difficult it would be to actually answer this question.If I compare with my previous projects, "We stand" received much less feedback than the others, both in comments and in favs. However, my previous projects were published here before the Eclipse era and one thing that I got from other deviants, is that's how things are now and DA as I knew it does not quite exist anymore. A lot of old deviants have left and people are just less engaged than before. In fact, beside few exceptions, most people that do still give feedback now, are people that were here back then during the pre-Eclipse era.

Interestingly, the number of views that each page of “We Stand” attracted were much higher than what I used to have before, showing that despite receiving less feedback, a lot of people were looking at the pages, and that encouraged me to pursue the development of the story beyond the first act. However, things have changed in 2022. Something changed in DA's algorithm in January which cause a massive drop in views for all my pages (older and newer). In fact, I saw a more than 95% drop of spontaneous views (views not coming from my watchers or from groups) going from an average of over a thousand spontaneous views for a newly submitted page, to barely two dozens of such views. (overall, I have lost around 10,000 views a month since January compared to 2021).

This came as a big disappointment to me and had me seriously reconsider my decision to continue with the project, but then, I had already invested so much (both in time and money) on the second act that I decided to continue to work on it. Besides, I still have a handful of dedicated readers to which I am extremely grateful. So I am officially announcing that I am indeed going to produce the 2nd act. I might however just wait until I'm done with it before investing myself in the 3rd act.

I am also considering other options to reach more viewers, but most of them are not cheap and spending more money on a project from which I'm not asking anything in return is unfortunately not viable in the long term.

EDIT: ironically, this page is doing quite well in terms of views!

Rendered in DAZ Studio 4.16 (3Delight)

Freebies used:

SkyDome by glaseye (ShareCG)

DIY set 1 by Cauldron Art (ShareCG)

Genesis 2 Male TShirts by Wilmap (WilmapsDigitalCreations)

Diaper for Genesis by Askance (ShareCG)

Pages

Act 1 - Page 01

...
Act 1 - Page 36

Act 1 - Page 37

Act 2

Act 3

Description

This is Page 37 and last page of the first act of "We Stand"!

When I started the project, I made the promise that I would finish at least the first act and see how it was received before deciding if I should go on with the subsequent acts. What I did not expect though, is how difficult it would be to actually answer this question.If I compare with my previous projects, "We stand" received much less feedback than the others, both in comments and in favs. However, my previous projects were published here before the Eclipse era and one thing that I got from other deviants, is that's how things are now and DA as I knew it does not quite exist anymore. A lot of old deviants have left and people are just less engaged than before. In fact, beside few exceptions, most people that do still give feedback now, are people that were here back then during the pre-Eclipse era.

Interestingly, the number of views that each page of “We Stand” attracted were much higher than what I used to have before, showing that despite receiving less feedback, a lot of people were looking at the pages, and that encouraged me to pursue the development of the story beyond the first act. However, things have changed in 2022. Something changed in DA's algorithm in January which cause a massive drop in views for all my pages (older and newer). In fact, I saw a more than 95% drop of spontaneous views (views not coming from my watchers or from groups) going from an average of over a thousand spontaneous views for a newly submitted page, to barely two dozens of such views. (overall, I have lost around 10,000 views a month since January compared to 2021).

This came as a big disappointment to me and had me seriously reconsider my decision to continue with the project, but then, I had already invested so much (both in time and money) on the second act that I decided to continue to work on it. Besides, I still have a handful of dedicated readers to which I am extremely grateful. So I am officially announcing that I am indeed going to produce the 2nd act. I might however just wait until I'm done with it before investing myself in the 3rd act.

I am also considering other options to reach more viewers, but most of them are not cheap and spending more money on a project from which I'm not asking anything in return is unfortunately not viable in the long term.

EDIT: ironically, this page is doing quite well in terms of views!

Rendered in DAZ Studio 4.16 (3Delight)

Freebies used:

SkyDome by glaseye (ShareCG)

DIY set 1 by Cauldron Art (ShareCG)

Genesis 2 Male TShirts by Wilmap (WilmapsDigitalCreations)

Diaper for Genesis by Askance (ShareCG)

Pages

Act 1 - Page 01

...
Act 1 - Page 36

Act 1 - Page 37

Act 2

Act 3