Thinking about changing my upload time

[CountVanBadger]

Ever since I launched XNPC in February, I had the chapters scheduled to release at 5:00pm (American central time). My reasoning was that if I uploaded before that, people would still be at work. My subscribers would get the notification, but there would be fewer people to see it during the brief time it's on the front page. But I just realized that people aren't at home at 5pm, they're just clocking out of work. They're not going to be checking their phones and reading stories while driving home from the office. So I'm considering changing the upload time to 6pm, since by then most people will have gotten home and will be more likely to be in relaxation mode and ready to read a book.

Would moving my upload time back one hour be worth it, or would the difference be so minimal that I may as well just keep it where it is?

 

[Assurbanipal_II]

Ever since I launched XNPC in February, I had the chapters scheduled to release at 5:00pm (American central time). My reasoning was that if I uploaded before that, people would still be at work. My subscribers would get the notification, but there would be fewer people to see it during the brief time it's on the front page. But I just realized that people aren't at home at 5pm, they're just clocking out of work. They're not going to be checking their phones and reading stories while driving home from the office. So I'm considering changing the upload time to 6pm, since by then most people will have gotten home and will be more likely to be in relaxation mode and ready to read a book.

Would moving my upload time back one hour be worth it, or would the difference be so minimal that I may as well just keep it where it is?

Upload time is completely irrelevant these days. You lose the latest spot far too quickly for it to matter.

 

[TheKillingAlice]

Upload time is completely irrelevant these days. You lose the latest spot far too quickly for it to matter.

I'd second that statement. I always upload at 12 p.m. Central Europe Time, but that's because it's convenient for me, as I still have time to upload last minute chapters or edit something in the draft at the literal eleventh hour, while still not feeling that it's too late and I have many hours to constantly stalk how the new chapter is doing.
However, I believe it gives neither advantages nor disadvantages; it just is the way it is.

 

[melcomely]

I think a statistical approach is better than basing yourself on logic. Maybe try the time switch and see if it changes anything in your views on release-day?