As an aspiring novelist and an avid reader myself, I feel compelled to weigh in on this.
I’ve written many stories. When reading my recent stuff, many people have said that it’s really good, so I’d say I’m at least a halfway decent writer.
Now, a lot of what I write is short stories, stuff that doesn’t take that long to read/write. And I’ve posted many of those writings on the MB’s, gotten a handful of comments among them.
One of the longer things that I’ve written, full novel length, is Matoran Wars, which is 8 chapters, about 2000 words per chapter. I’ve gotten no feedback on it, though one like on the first chapter, and I haven’t really looked at the number of views – of course, a person could ‘view’ the topic without reading the story, too. I’m not saying this to complain, or saying ‘please read my stuff’, just providing a point of comparison.
As for reading – I do read many long physical novels, particularly series that I follow and enjoy. However, I don’t like to apply a lot of time to read something I’m not sure if I’ll find interesting or investing, particularly online. I did skim through some of your first novel, and it didn’t particularly grab my interest. Not a lot of the longer stories on the MB’s do catch my interest, though some do, if they are particularly interesting or well-written.
For notable example, Scorpion Strike’s The Folly of the Toa (this is a link to the final chapter, which in turn links to the rest of the chapters), undoubtedly longer than your stories, I read through each chapter as they were posted, and have read the whole thing through a second time since. I didn’t post on every chapter, but I did when I had something to say. I say this mostly to prove that I can read long-form online stories, if they catch my interest.