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Where do you host your erotic fiction? (lemmynsfw.com)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/asklemmynsfw@lemmynsfw.com
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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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[–] 4 points 2 years ago

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.

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago*

    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.

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    [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    bedside black spiral notebook

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    [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    What is that you feel is missing in the self hosted space?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Honestly, that's probably the best way to go. I've been meaning to try out a few of those.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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