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## [Q][D] Would anyone be interested in a serial fiction platform?
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* Author: u/somnicule *
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* URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/2dp7h5/qd_would_anyone_be_interested_in_a_serial_fiction/
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* Score: 15
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* Created: 2014-08-16T04:58:14
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### Post:
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There's wordpress, and if that's good enough for everyone's purposes then I'll leave this project as-is, but I'm thinking features like:
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* Version control
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* Various pricing options (subscriptions, patreon-like systems, free samples + purchase, donations, etc.)
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* Merchandising (i.e. quotes on mugs, t-shirts, posters, etc. Perhaps help connecting users with designers for other stuff like icons and logos?)
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* PDF, epub, and mobi downloads
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* Genre tags
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* Recommendation systems
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* Updates via email (and other channels?)
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* RSS feeds
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* Custom CSS
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* Custom domain names
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* Author's notes
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And anything else you can think of. It's just an idea at the moment, and mainly a way to see if there's demand. Cheers.
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### Comments:
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> **u/None** [+8] (10 hours later)
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> A number of us have been demanding the creation of a LessWrongFiction site for a good while. It would centralize our craving for stories about hyper-intellectual nerds like ourselves.
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>> **u/Rhamni** [+3] *Aspiring author* (16 hours later)
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>> That would be very practical.
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> **u/Nepene** [+2] (21 hours later)
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> I would, as long as it was selective to high quality rational fiction. Like an online magazine of rationality. Eagle and Alexander, selected other high quality authors.
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>> **u/eaglejarl** [+1] (6 days later)
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>> I'm flattered. :)
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>>> **u/Nepene** [+1] (6 days later)
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>>> Your weekly supply of rationality and munchkinnery is one a lot of us really enjoy.
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> **u/rdalex** [+1] (4 hours later)
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> If you have the time and skills for a project such as this one, maybe you could contribute to (or fork, I guess) efiction.org and add the features you feel are lacking. It's already widely used by fiction archives, and it's also well-known by ebook managing tools such as Calibre (by way of the FFDL plugin).
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> **u/lehyde** [+1] *Nudist Beach* (a day later)
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> Archive of Our Own is pretty great. It's only for fanfiction but the code is [open source](https://github.com/otwcode/otwarchive).
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> **u/cartazio** [+1] (2 days later)
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> sounds like one element would be well served by a content engine that at least internally use something like pandoc johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
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> (ignoring the community management and ecommerce elements)
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> **u/comport** [+0] (2 hours later)
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> I think any demand for this that exists is satisfied by Fictionpress.com and Faniction.net right now. They don't have all of those features, but they do have a lot of users and stories already.
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>> **u/eaglejarl** [+5] (16 hours later)
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>> Yes, although they also have horrible interfaces. I would like to be able to edit a document and then click "update chapter" (or just have it update automatically) instead of having to:
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>> - go to publish options
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>> - go to Manage Stories
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>> - go to relevant story
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>> - go to Content/Chapters
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>> - go to Replace/Update chapter
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>> - select chapter in drop list
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>> - select document in drop list
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>> - click submit
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>> - wait for full page refresh
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>> - wait up to 30 mins for change to be applied
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>> Other things
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>> - The ability to respond to reviews, in threaded format
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>> - The ability to search PMs or look for all messages from a given user
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>> - The ability to review a chapter multiple times, for when I reread
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>> - The ability to f'ing copy/paste from a story, for when I want to include a snippet in a review / PM. If they're worried about copyright / people stealing other people's work, it's not like they can prevent it -- turn off JavaScript, download page, view source -- lots of ways.
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>> - Their goddamn link mangler has got to bloody go. There is no possible way that it provides more value than irritation.
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>> In point of fact, FFN is a seriously craptastic platform. It just happens to be one of the best known and probably largest
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>>> **u/None** [+2] (19 hours later)
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>>> [deleted]
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>>>> **u/eaglejarl** [+2] (19 hours later)
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>>>> Huh. Wish I'd started writing there, then. :(
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>>>>> **u/lehyde** [+1] *Nudist Beach* (a day later)
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>>>>>
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>>>>> You could start by cross-posting your work there.
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