I had somehow missed this. Following how people relate to their media, this is fascinating. I especially found the length and frequency of content interesting, something I’ve been thinking of at ArcticStartup.

The most popular choice was to see a new post at least weekly (47%), followed by 35% who chose a few times a month. Only 19% would impose no limit at all.

I struggle quite a lot with this. While we publish 3-4 posts a day on ArcticStartup, people would probably value our content more if we published less with more in-depth articles. Then again we reach quite a diverse crowd and I’m sure there’s always something for people with different backgrounds.

Regarding keeping comments off:

The vast majority (75%) agreed with the decision, saying that comments should remain off. 19% said they didn’t care either way, leaving only 6% who preferred that comments be reinstated (I don’t have any current plans to do that).

This is something I decided to also do on my own site with the latest redesign (and change of hosting). Having constantly zero comments on articles does not make the site very appealing, as you clearly fail at capturing discussion. However, when you don’t enable discussion at all – it sounds more natural with no comments.

Good read though.