TheYellowKnight Iāve had the same thought on comments, YK, in terms of wishing they werenāt interleaved in the story, otoh, it does let future readers get the comments in the context of how much the commenter had read at the time they made it.
As far as staying on top of the pile, that cuts two ways. If youāre posting a story Iāve already read, and youāre bumping it every day adding another chapter Iāve already read, I donāt know it when you finally add new content, so I donāt go in to check. Thatās one of the things I wonder, how to best let people know thereās new material added to a serial, that itās not just being bumped by comments.