I currently have a Literotica account, but posting a story there is a bit of a wait for 2024. Plus, it also feels a bit like it's held together with paste. Do you have any favorite fiction hosting websites, or do you self-host?
I would love to self host, but I get a little annoyed by current blog and content management software.
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lazyneet@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
I've got 3 erotic shorts I've been meaning to publish, but not one of them is quite there yet. I'm considering ArchiveOfOurOwn, Amazon, and Smashwords. If I were writing slash fiction or tweet-length stuff I'd probably just drop it in a forum somewhere. I still haven't found a roleplay/smut site where people are communicative and friendly to my kinks.
Wiggums@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
bedside black spiral notebook
rufus@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 2y
I'd be happy if some more stories were on !erotic_stories@lemmynsfw.com . But I think the max post length on Lemmy is 10.000 characters. So using this to save the text itself will just work for short stories.
AnAccount@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 2y
What is that you feel is missing in the self hosted space?
nerdydaddy@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 2y
Technology is my day job, and I have a lot of experience with CMSs. I don't want to spend my free time managing a server to run just one application, so I'm sticking to PHP (I have a few things I run already on it). However, the options in that space are not the best. WordPress and Drupal are just a nightmare of plugins with archaic template concepts. There are more modern options like Craft, but I've been through a few major version upgrades on Craft. Having to damn near rebuild the site each time is too much headache.
I'm currently almost leaning towards Grav, but I have mixed feelings about their documentation. It has a lot, but feels a bit sparse on some topics.
AnAccount@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 2y
A static site generator + GitHub pages sounds like something you might like. They’ll let you run any static site for free (I think) and it’s fully automated.
nerdydaddy@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 2y
Honestly, that's probably the best way to go. I've been meaning to try out a few of those.
AnAccount@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 2y
You could even write all of your HTML by hand if you’re that kind of old school cool :)
nerdydaddy@lemmynsfw.com · 2 pts · 2y
Oh, I'll definitely be writing the templates by hand. I have a preference for hand written CSS.
AnAccount@lemmynsfw.com · 1 pts · 2y
Actually I just checked ToS and they don’t allow erotica :/
There are lots of low effort ways to host static sites these days though. CDN in front of an S3 bucket, a billion PaaS offerings, etc.
nerdydaddy@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 2y
It's fine. I have a web server. I just didn't want to run a separate server just to run Ghost on Node.