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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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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 years ago (1 children)

This is a really great idea! Though I don't know of any software with these features.

As mentioned below, plume sorta fits the bill but is still early in it's development and isn't currently actively maintained. I ran an instance for a few months about 8 months ago and it was a very promising start, so it's a little sad that it isn't getting the development love it deserves.

Anyway like I said I don't know of anything that can really do this out of the box (though I'm sure wordpress can be round-pegged into that square hole). Might be a fun side-project, though. Which, now that my interactive fiction on gemini project has sorta stabilized I am looking for a new side-project. 🤔

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 years ago

Writefreely seems to fit the bill mostly, at least their non-self-hosted SaaS version. I hope it will trickle-down into their open-source offering at some point, but I am not holding my breath.

But maybe they are more open to external contributions that it looks at first glance, so if you have time for another side project (I don't and not my strong skill set anyways) maybe have a look at it: https://github.com/writeas/writefreely