diff --git a/app/Console/Commands/ParseCachedWebMentions.php b/app/Console/Commands/ParseCachedWebMentions.php
index f375f213..03e3d277 100644
--- a/app/Console/Commands/ParseCachedWebMentions.php
+++ b/app/Console/Commands/ParseCachedWebMentions.php
@@ -43,12 +43,14 @@ class ParseCachedWebMentions extends Command
         foreach ($HTMLfiles as $file) {
             if ($file->getExtension() != 'backup') { //we don’t want to parse.backup files
                 $filepath = $file->getPathname();
+                $this->info('Loading HTML from: ' . $filepath);
                 $html = $filesystem->get($filepath);
                 $url = $this->URLFromFilename($filepath);
                 $microformats = \Mf2\parse($html, $url);
                 $webmention = WebMention::where('source', $url)->firstOrFail();
                 $webmention->mf2 = json_encode($microformats);
                 $webmention->save();
+                $this->info('Saved the microformats to the database.');
             }
         }
     }
diff --git a/app/Console/Commands/ReDownloadWebMentions.php b/app/Console/Commands/ReDownloadWebMentions.php
index 12622fa3..e7269238 100644
--- a/app/Console/Commands/ReDownloadWebMentions.php
+++ b/app/Console/Commands/ReDownloadWebMentions.php
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ class ReDownloadWebMentions extends Command
     {
         $webmentions = WebMention::all();
         foreach ($webmentions as $webmention) {
+            $this->info('Initiation re-download of ' . $webmention->source);
             $this->dispatch(new DownloadWebMention($webmention->source));
         }
     }