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[wook77]

Have been talking to someone about possibly moving slashfest to its own webdomain like yuletide does. Then - slashfest would become more like the yuletide comm - where things are discussed and hashed out and announced.

It'd be a bit different as the two fests are completely different. Plus - I have a few things I'd like to see improved upon from their website. And the whole make a request, claim thing is quite a bit different, too. But the basic premise is still there.

Pros: the site uploads the requests and claims for me, making it easier to organize. Also allows for automatic uploading by the participants with their fics. Can set up coding in the site to track dropouts and bannings for the various rounds. Can also set up coding to do the purging of the requests that are no longer valid.

Cons: people bitch about the lack of comments now and I'm not sure that commenting would go up at the website. I mean, if people can't hit the comment button at the bottom of a post, I doubt they'd be willing to click a link on a website.

What do you guys think of the feasibility of it? Take it off LJ and have it more automated and, imho, more polished? Honesty set to "on" plz. I can take the concrit, really :D. This is, obviously, just something in the beginning stages so the more input, the better. I want to get it hashed out as best I can here before I take it to the main comm as you guys speak "wookese" and stuffs.

Comment away and, as soon as I get back from Fry's, I'll be responding!

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[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Disclaimer: I don't follow slashfest, so my opinion probably shouldn't matter that much. But -- re: commenting on web sites vs. on LJ/IJ, as a reader I much prefer the latter because the author can respond to me, and because I can see everybody else's comments all in one place.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

That's one of the things I'd like to build on from the yuletide website, actually. I don't like that there isn't a way of responding to comments except via email. I'd like to make it a bit more "conversational" within the commenting aspect. Yuletide does let everyone view all the comments to an entry.

And you're not following slashfest? o.O *glares* *winks*

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

Yuletide does let everyone view all the comments to an entry.

I don't have much (any?) experience with Yultide, so I wasn't sure. Are the comments all at the bottom of the page or do you have to click to a new one? (I know it takes, like, two seconds to click, but still -- I love LJ's format of having everything all in one place, including author's responses.)

And you're not following slashfest?

I am fest'd out, yo. I have already flunked dramatically at following either hd_worldup or the Snarry games. However, I am bound and determined to keep up with rs_games -- that's all I can manage these days. Darn that second fandom. ;-)

[wendy.livejournal.com]

I've already told you my opinion, but in the spirit of conversation....I think authors want their fic on LJ. And I'm way more likely to read and comment on fic if it's housed on LJ itself.

[grey-hunter.livejournal.com]

Would it have an RSS feed I could add to my f-list?

[oconel]

I thought I had answered this, but it seems I haven't. Anyway, eFiction seems to allow comments and I'm happy to have an RSS feed (where I can comment too), so if the webdomain is better for you and enough authors agree, I'd go for it.

[midnight-birth.livejournal.com]

I definitely want my fic on LJ. I had a hard time getting used to archiving it on the community rather than linking to my LJ because I like to keep all my work in one place where I can always track it, follow it, and, if need be, remove it. Though I definitely understand the reason for that. Archiving on a whole different site, however, would make me very uncomfortable. I only ever posted my fan fic on one other site other than LJ, and that, in itself, was a very negative experience. My two cents. :)

[zanzou-chan.livejournal.com]

I don't read the yuletide fics. I do read slashfest. If it moved, I would probably read it less, if at all. :(

[jehnt.livejournal.com]

One thing you could possibly do is use a platform like Joomla or something (even heavily modded wordpress) that has some built in blog-like features and multi-user capabilities as well as lj-like features like tags and stuff. I don't know a whole lot about website building (this is a moderately hilarious statement if you know that I own no less than FOUR domain names) but I've been looking into both of those things for a fannish site/archive thing for myself, and I want as much flexibility as possible in case I start having fic as well as just graphics. I know WP at least has some pretty cool extensions that allow it to integrate with LJ to some extent.