I just unsubbed from a story I was subbed to for some time. But pressing that 'unsubscribe' button was hard because the creator is subbed to my work. After pressing 'unsubscribe', I felt a bit guilty.
I keep my subscriptions limited strictly to those I want to read and so far, I've unsubscribed from a fair few works, because I felt like I didn't want to read further. I usually never do sub for sub, because, in the middle of all of those, I won't find the ones I want to read for myself after some time. As for the one I unsubscribed from, I don't think I've read much and wasn't really interested in, to begin with.
Unsubscribing isn't really all that strange. It's natural for a reader to unsub from someone's work, that might be mine or yours or anyone else's. But it's strange that now when I'm on this side of the creation process, it feels like this.
I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, to be honest. But if I think as a reader, it somehow doesn't seem that big of a deal.
What are your thoughts?
Edit:This isn't about the "sub for sub" topic. We've had long discussions about it on the forums and I'd like for this to not turn into another of those.