Personally, I think spacing out the published chapters is a good idea, I find it kinder to the readers because it offers them an opportunity to discover the story and get round to thinking about clicking on it, while also offering more opportunity to the author to receive feedback through views likes and if they are very lucky, comments.
I think it's a good idea to have a healthy stockpile of ready chapters, or at least outlines for chapters because it can help develop an ending for the story, help with the pacing and provide a goal to work towards, It might prevent the author from becoming overly sidetracked by side branches in their pursuit of a specific readers niche enthusiasm (love these readers, they actually leave comments and help to go out of the comfort zone!) while still offering them the time to write side branches if inspiration strikes. And I think the biggest benefit is that if the reader feedback is poor, or non-existent it has less influence on the author because they can just edit and post the next chapter that's waiting to be published, while if they just have a vague outline in their head it has the potential to kill the story.
So basically It's probably a good practice to have most of your story outlined and written when you start publishing, but publishing slowly can give you the benefit of publishing as you go which is, it gives you the opportunity to improve, develop and diversify your story as you go while amassing a following and having an end in sight.
I'll be honest, I have one philosophy: Give the readers something at least.
This is a good point. Although might be a different topic than the release schedule.
But I think it's mainly relevant for well-written stories that have plot and where you as the author want your readers to care about the story and the characters.
Although it's a strategy on its own to write short barely cliffhanger chapters of a few hundred words that allude to the juice parts being in the next chapter and the reader just has to click and click and click are pulled along in the pursuit of the climax. It leads to more views, maybe more likes but you may not have readers coming back once they've gotten what they wanted. I personally find the short chapter variety more easily digested, and I'm more likely to click through a few chapters before making a decision on whether I will read it or not thus ultimately spending more time on them and giving them more of a chance. But it can get on my nerves after a while if it gets overly ridiculous. I also personally find that making every decision for the protagonist alienates me from the story, I'd much rather make decisions on things that have a bigger influence on the direction of the story in one go... if the story is indeed what I'm after. ; ]
But now I'm thoroughly sidetracked, XD
