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Starting a website for a SciFi writer's collective? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So I have been wanting to get into writing SciFi short stories for a while now, but being very much a "infrastructure guy" my preferred approach is to build a structure and dogfeed it then.

So the genera idea would be to put up some sort of fediverse enabled blogging website, but with the plan to allow a (limited) number of authors to sign up and contribute stories.

In addition it should allow posting subscriber only stories and some sort of collective donation account (via Patreon or LiberaPay etc. no blockchain non-sense) so that it becomes more attractive for people to donate and get access to the stories from all the authors.

Any suggestions on what a good server side software for something like that might be?

Ideally of course it should allow curating some sort of collections and also allow easy export of a ebook compatible format, but guess such specialized features could be added later. Some sort of plugin system for adding such features would be good though.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (3 children)

I am guessing https://writefreely.org/ is probably the best platform, but I am open to other suggestions.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Writefreely does make the most sense to me. I don't know how the subscriber-only stories could work tho.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

That seems to be a build in feature. However I just now noticed that the team functions are still not on the open-source version, but only available on their SaaS version. All in all it seems a bit too open-core sadly, with the FOSS version also lagging behind a lot.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

Ahh dang.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

I guess it never the less sounds like the best option for now. Maybe I'll wait and see what the status is when the next version is released.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago

yeah that's what I thought of reading this

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago (1 children)

https://github.com/mouse-reeve/bookwyrm

I haven't really looked into this, and I know it's focused on reading but I wonder if this could be useful?

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

Looked into this as well, but that is really for readers of published books.