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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: 13
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Created: 2014-08-16T04:58:14
Post:
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
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.
Comments:
u/None [+9] *
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.
u/Rhamni [+3] Aspiring author*
That would be very practical.
u/Nepene [+2] *
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.
u/eaglejarl [+1] *
I'm flattered. :)
u/Nepene [+1] *
Your weekly supply of rationality and munchkinnery is one a lot of us really enjoy.
u/rdalex [+1] *
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).
u/lehyde [+1] Nudist Beach*
Archive of Our Own is pretty great. It's only for fanfiction but the code is open source.
u/cartazio [+1] *
sounds like one element would be well served by a content engine that at least internally use something like pandoc johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ (ignoring the community management and ecommerce elements)
u/comport [+0] *
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.
u/eaglejarl [+3] *
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:
- go to publish options
- go to Manage Stories
- go to relevant story
- go to Content/Chapters
- go to Replace/Update chapter
- select chapter in drop list
- select document in drop list
- click submit
- wait for full page refresh
- wait up to 30 mins for change to be applied Other things
- The ability to respond to reviews, in threaded format
- The ability to search PMs or look for all messages from a given user
- The ability to review a chapter multiple times, for when I reread
- 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.
- Their goddamn link mangler has got to bloody go. There is no possible way that it provides more value than irritation. In point of fact, FFN is a seriously craptastic platform. It just happens to be one of the best known and probably largest
u/None [+2] *
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u/eaglejarl [+2] *
Huh. Wish I'd started writing there, then. :(
u/lehyde [+1] Nudist Beach*
You could start by cross-posting your work there.