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Thinking of starting a rational fan fiction based website blog/forum.
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Author: u/squitar *
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URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/2lmjve/thinking_of_starting_a_rational_fan_fiction_based/
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Score: 13
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Created: 2014-11-07T23:15:18
Post:
I'm thinking of creating a rational fan fiction website. I want to add in the ability for anyone to post their stories and fans to rate them. There would be no subscription and would be ran simply for ad revnue/donations. Would anyone be interested in something like that?
Comments:
u/lehyde [+6] Nudist Beach (38 minutes later)
Do you think a separate site has advantages over using the existing solutions?
And if you the answer is yes, the question remains whether you could re-use existing code. The excellent archive of our own (which also supports contests) have their code on github where you could fork it. (You could say forking other projects is a rationalist tradition as lesswrong is a fork of reddit ;-)
u/squitar [+1] (44 minutes later)
Haha thanks for the idea. I'm not really trying to pull off some amazing feat of creating the best fiction archive ever. I just want a friendly forum/blog for fictional authors to post and rate eachothers works. I know it's been done I was just hoping to cater more to the rational fiction niche.
u/squitar [+3] (4 minutes later)
If the site got popular enough I'd also like to host rational writing contests with prizes. The winners chosen by the fans.
u/eaglejarl [+1] (a day later)
How do you see that working? "Challenge: write a story in genre about "? Is this a winner-takes-all based on the fan votes or what?
u/squitar [+3] (34 minutes later)
Update: I've registered teh domain rationalfiction.com
u/eaglejarl [+3] (15 hours later)
You're welcome to repost The Two Year Emperor.
Also, there are several things that I dislike about FFN and would love to see in a new site -- if I could find them all, I would move off of FFN.
- Threaded reviews / comments / whatever you call them. I want to be able to reply to my reviewers
- The ability to review a chapter more than once, for when I re-read.
- Daily views & visitors stats
- A posting process that requires fewer actions than the very clunky one on FFN.
- No f'ing link-eater or copy/paste disabler. Jesus H. Christ on a cracker, those things are just bloody annoying and they throw out the baby with the small amount of bathwater.
u/squitar [+2] (22 hours later)
I'll keep all of this in mind while developing rationalfiction.com I'm building the website alone so it make take a while(unless people want to help :D) however I will guarantee at least a little work everyday. I will try to improve on what ffn lacks and i will never use copy+paste disablers. If you want to help out feel free to make an account on my site and submit stories. Any stories submitted i while later convert into an archive containing all the chapters.
u/squitar [+1] (a day later)
Thanks again for your help and info eaglejarl. The dislikes of FFN gave me more of an idea of how I want to set the site up.(Once I get the basics down, I'm new to web development and wordpress)
u/eaglejarl [+2] (a day later)
You're welcome. Other good features might include:
- A 'fave' and 'follow' ability (this is something that FFN does have, and is good)
- The ability for readers to up- and down-vote a story for quality. Faves kinda covers this, but not really.
- An ability for readers to add a link to a "similar story" and up- and down-vote those links. If you saw a 'similar story' link with -5 votes you could assume that it was someone trolling for views and wasn't actually that similar. Link with votes below -1 or so should probably be hidden.
What platform are you writing it in? Wordpress, you said?
u/squitar [+1] (a day later)
Thanks for the awesome ideas! Yeah I'm building it on Wordpress. I'm very new to all web development, but I'm willing to give it everything I can even if it takes a couple months to get going.
u/squitar [+2] (52 minutes later)
Update: Domain registered and hosting found website construction has bugun
u/MadScientist14159 [+2] WIP: Sodium Hypochlorite (Rational Bleach) Eventually. Maybe. (4 days later)
Wouldn't that just be this subreddit?
u/squitar [+1] (58 minutes later)
Is there anyone willing to let me use their stories as opening posts? I need Authors
u/alexanderwales [+6] Time flies like an arrow (an hour later)
Sure, you can use anything I've posted to my fanfic page. Though fanfic.net doesn't allow copy+paste, so you'd have to use an intermediary scraper, or dev tools to turn that off. And then there are the formatting concerns, like italics, bold, line breaks, etc. But so long as I don't have to do anything much with it, go ahead.
u/PeridexisErrant [+4] put aside fear for courage, and death for life (2 hours later)
Or an extension which disables copypaste-disablers.
u/squitar [+1] (2 hours later)
awesome thanks for the approval i look forward to hosting your stories
u/Zephyr1011 [+1] Potentially Unfriendly Aspiring Divinity (10 hours later)
That problem can be solved by copying from the mobile site
u/None [+2] (an hour later)
Paging /u/alexanderwales
u/squitar [+1] (3 hours later)
Update: The site is now live although very basic and having 0 posts it is up now
u/None [+1] (9 hours later)
Unfortunately, I'm on mobile, so I can't provide a link to the ever-appropriate "DO IT!" image.
u/squitar [+1] (a day later)
UPDATE: I am currently working on archiving some stories and making the website a little more functional. I've still got to add in a comment/rating/review system however. So far i've got the first 5 chapters of The Metropolitan Man archived (thank you AlexanderWales) and The first 2 Chapters of Decagon (thank you theyellowwombat) . I unfortunately haven't had much free time and probably won't have much more in the coming week, however I still want to add at least something everyday. Thanks again for you support guys! Please feel free to check things out at Rationalfiction.com to see how things are going.
u/squitar [+1] (a day later)
sidenote: I'm a borderline insomniac so most updates will be done during the hours of 2-6 a.m. central time. During these times I may put up a temporary site under construction splash page, but check back soon.
u/squitar [+1] (a day later)
extra sidenote: I'm super excited to have eaglejarl's permission to archive The Two Year Emperor. Starting on that soon after The Metro Man
u/eaglejarl [+1] (a day later)
To make your life a bit easier, here's a copy of all the existing chapters:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3294457/two_year_emperor.tgz
u/squitar [+1] (a day later)
definitely helps thanks again
u/None [+1] (12 minutes later)
don't talk just do it
u/squitar [+1] (17 minutes later)
I'd like to see if there's a decent user base. (edit: if so i will begin work this evening)