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## Thinking of starting a rational fan fiction based website blog/forum.

* Author: u/squitar *
* URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/rational/comments/2lmjve/thinking_of_starting_a_rational_fan_fiction_based/
* Score: 13

* 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](http://archiveofourown.org/works/777002/chapters/1461984) (which also supports [contests](http://archiveofourown.org/collections/aliens_and_time_machines_prompts)) have their code [on github](https://github.com/otwcode/otwarchive) 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 <X> genre about  <Y>"?  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.](https://www.fanfiction.net/u/4976703/alexanderwales) 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](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/selectable-for-fanfiction/jcidlhgdoojamkbpmhbpgldmajnobefd) 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)

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