What would you like to see in a Fiction.live alternative?

[SnowingSilently]

This. I've been looking for extensions and options to see if this is possible. I understand that Fiction.live is a page for Quest and removing what makes a Quest a Quest sounds counterproductive, but often there are so many options that I can barely read without constantly hitting the down button and skipping through lines after lines of options. And it hurts me because there are many stories that come from there and then are re-uploaded here or on other pages and I love them, so to think that there are others there that I am incapable of reading bothers me.

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I took a look at the page source to see if there was anything that could be done, but frustratingly, it looks like the voting is the only part wrapped in its own section, not any of the voting related text beforehand. So though you could use a script extension to block any article tag with the classes "chapter choice", you'll still see the preceding voting related text.

 

[Thought Master]

Unifying the mobile and browser versions so that things like following quests could be used on the mobile devices as well would be nice. The biggest thing I can think of, however, is having the capability to report quests that aren't quests but rather adverts. When I saw one of them, I had to find one of the admin's posts, which is on the same system as the quests, and send the information though said chat, and I'm unsure if said report actually did anything.

 

[Oneman2]

having actual moderation where racists piece of shit can't justify slavery and raping of minorities will be nice.

 

[MentalMystique]

I wanted an alternative to Fiction.live too, so earlier this year I developed an alternative that is currently running @ https://storymaster.live
Haven't advertised it much though... But I came across this post and I figured I'd share this in case anyone is interested.

I probably don't have all of the features yet.

What I have at the moment is:

• A story browser that allows you to filter by tags and search stories by title and description. There is an NSFW filter, but it's currently stuck on because I originally started developing this in order to have an alternative place where I could post my own stories, which are 18+
• A "go live" system with the ability to schedule a live in advance.
• A Discord bot that automatically notifies the Discord server of any stories that are due to go live.
• Documentation on how to use the platform, with screenshots.
• A public chat room along with the ability to have breakout chat rooms that can either be public or limited to specific users.
• You can create polls within each individual chat room. This supports multiple choice and supports custom choices. It is also possible to exclude specific users from being able to participate in a poll. This can be useful to allow readers to vote on the story while preventing players from being able to figure out what's going on.
• Users have to be registered in order to be able to participate, but anyone may view the chat. It is also possible to mute the chat so only approved users may participate.
• When opening a story on a mobile device, the story is presented in a reader-friendly (distraction-free) format.
• When opening a story on a desktop, the page and font scales with the size of the screen. What you write in the editor is how it appears on the screen. This means that if you, for example, render text next to an image, how it shows up in the editor will be how it shows up for viewers. (This excludes the mobile view, which has images fill the screen instead.)
• The editor automatically converts characters such as quotes.
• You can select quotes in the editor and colorize them based on who is speaking.
• It is possible to assign users as contributors allowing them to submit drafts, which are not immediately visible to everyone else, but may be checked and published by an editor.
• Support for preface, prologue, chapters (up to 999), and appendixes.
• You can upload images within the editor which will be automatically compressed and stored on the server.
• A simple notification system that uses the browser's notification feature. The page itself also shows notifications if new chat messages appear or when new passages are added or updated.
• A colorblind mode that should make it easier for those who are visually impaired to read the stories. Note: the stories are presented on a dark background.
• The browser keeps track of the last open chapter and other configuration.
• Oh, and dice rolling is possible using the /roll command in chat, which should support all the notation that Fiction.live supports including thresholds etc.

If you'd like to check out the user interface for yourself, feel free to check out this little story (watch out: NSFW 18+) I did a while ago. It'll demonstrate the use of polls, the use of the chat feature, the breakout chat rooms, and the story itself including colored quotations and images.
(Note: In my style of writing stories, I like to be sadistic pick a few people that are going to stick around and give them direct control of characters so that they are able to control those characters and the rest of the readers are able to decide on what happens in terms of their fate, so you'll find character's inner monologues in the breakout chat rooms.)

There is a link to a Discord server on the main page if you'd like to reach out to me or to leave feedback or to meet others that might be interested in writing stories. (Although given the NSFW nature of a lot of stories, I am heavily considering to make the Discord bot generic so anyone can add it to their server and allowing communities to use this platform for their own stories while keeping the platform Discord itself SFW.)

 

[LurkingCho]

I wanted an alternative to Fiction.live too, so earlier this year I developed an alternative that is currently running @ https://storymaster.live
Haven't advertised it much though... But I came across this post and I figured I'd share this in case anyone is interested.

I probably don't have all of the features yet.

What I have at the moment is:

• A story browser that allows you to filter by tags and search stories by title and description. There is an NSFW filter, but it's currently stuck on because I originally started developing this in order to have an alternative place where I could post my own stories, which are 18+
• A "go live" system with the ability to schedule a live in advance.
• A Discord bot that automatically notifies the Discord server of any stories that are due to go live.
• Documentation on how to use the platform, with screenshots.
• A public chat room along with the ability to have breakout chat rooms that can either be public or limited to specific users.
• You can create polls within each individual chat room. This supports multiple choice and supports custom choices. It is also possible to exclude specific users from being able to participate in a poll. This can be useful to allow readers to vote on the story while preventing players from being able to figure out what's going on.
• Users have to be registered in order to be able to participate, but anyone may view the chat. It is also possible to mute the chat so only approved users may participate.
• When opening a story on a mobile device, the story is presented in a reader-friendly (distraction-free) format.
• When opening a story on a desktop, the page and font scales with the size of the screen. What you write in the editor is how it appears on the screen. This means that if you, for example, render text next to an image, how it shows up in the editor will be how it shows up for viewers. (This excludes the mobile view, which has images fill the screen instead.)
• The editor automatically converts characters such as quotes.
• You can select quotes in the editor and colorize them based on who is speaking.
• It is possible to assign users as contributors allowing them to submit drafts, which are not immediately visible to everyone else, but may be checked and published by an editor.
• Support for preface, prologue, chapters (up to 999), and appendixes.
• You can upload images within the editor which will be automatically compressed and stored on the server.
• A simple notification system that uses the browser's notification feature. The page itself also shows notifications if new chat messages appear or when new passages are added or updated.
• A colorblind mode that should make it easier for those who are visually impaired to read the stories. Note: the stories are presented on a dark background.
• The browser keeps track of the last open chapter and other configuration.
• Oh, and dice rolling is possible using the /roll command in chat, which should support all the notation that Fiction.live supports including thresholds etc.

If you'd like to check out the user interface for yourself, feel free to check out this little story (watch out: NSFW 18+) I did a while ago. It'll demonstrate the use of polls, the use of the chat feature, the breakout chat rooms, and the story itself including colored quotations and images.
(Note: In my style of writing stories, I like to be sadistic pick a few people that are going to stick around and give them direct control of characters so that they are able to control those characters and the rest of the readers are able to decide on what happens in terms of their fate, so you'll find character's inner monologues in the breakout chat rooms.)

There is a link to a Discord server on the main page if you'd like to reach out to me or to leave feedback or to meet others that might be interested in writing stories. (Although given the NSFW nature of a lot of stories, I am heavily considering to make the Discord bot generic so anyone can add it to their server and allowing communities to use this platform for their own stories while keeping the platform Discord itself SFW.)

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Pretty cool, but the lack of anonposting is a showstopper and it looks like the UI doesn't let you see chat below the story posts. I like being able to click the little chat button beneath the post and see what people are saying immediately after a particular story post. It's a vital feature for catching up with a quest because the community, and how they react to story posts are a lot of the fun. Other than that, it looks good.

 

[stevesteverson223]

This. I've been looking for extensions and options to see if this is possible. I understand that Fiction.live is a page for Quest and removing what makes a Quest a Quest sounds counterproductive, but often there are so many options that I can barely read without constantly hitting the down button and skipping through lines after lines of options. And it hurts me because there are many stories that come from there and then are re-uploaded here or on other pages and I love them, so to think that there are others there that I am incapable of reading bothers me.

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Hope this doesn't count as a thread necro, but I made a script for this that you can set as a bookmark or something.

You can make a bookmark and set the following code as the URL and it should hide poll sections

javascript: (() => { const nodes=document.querySelectorAll(".poll-head");for(node of nodes){console.log(node);let e=node?.parentNode?.parentNode;e&&(e.style.display="none")} })();