I've been looking at a way to spruce up a writers' community I maintain. One piece of software I came across is
efiction. They have a
demo here. While it's not really comparable to XOOPS, it does offer some interesting features. I know that XOOPS can accomplish some of them, but I not sure about all of them.
Feature List:
Categories: you can have only one category, or as many as you want, including sub-categories. Categories were written with the intention that they would indicate different fandoms, or categories of story.
XOOPS modules can do this with topics, so that's no problem.Characters: Intended to mean the characters that fall within that fandom or category.
Is this possible with XOOPS?Genres: Genres include such things as Action, Romance, Poetry, Folk, Angst, or whatever makes the most sense within your fandom or types of stories.
Seems to be redundantRatings: Basic ratings could be G, PG, PG-13, and so on, but you could also do ratings as Child, Youth, Adult and so on, or whatever makes the most sense to you. You can set specific ratings to have different access levels if you choose. In addition to making stories visible to the public (the default), you may set ratings to be for members only, require an age consent verification, or both.
I know AMS can do this, but I still have the problem with Magic Quotes.Warnings: Warnings are intended to be used to help indicate certain things about stories that you may want to warn readers of, such as rape, male/male sex, and so on. The Warnings field doesn't have to be used for warnings -- it could be used for Languages, or whatever you wanted.
Another AMS feature possiblySeries: Series are collections of related stories by the same or multiple authors. A story and its sequels, for example. Series might also be used for a "shared universe" in which multiple authors write. The person who creates the series is considered the series "owner" and controls whether or not the series is "open" to contributions by other authors or not. Even if the series is "closed", the series owner has the option to include stories from other authors in the series.
This seems to only be possible with the various XOOPS blogs, though I have a feeling I may be wrong. Does anyone know?Challenges: Challenges are ideas/wishes for stories that a member or an anonymous visitor "challenges" authors to write. Stories written in response to the challenge can be listed under the challenge by the story author or an admin.
Could this be something I could use the AMS/newbb feature for. I seem to remember someone saying that the News module has that feature coming. Any updates on that? Do any of our article/news modules have a featur that can accomplish this.Thanks for taking the time to read this and for any thoughts or suggestions you might have.
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