Well, it's not exactly hard to make a site like that. It'll be hard to make it good.
The site will also have to depend on the user base for things like "All time top stories" or "Currently trending" so if people aren't using it, then it's worthless as anything beyond a glorified bookmark.

I'll be happy to try my skill at making a prototype, if nothing else. Once Nanowrimo is over and I don't spend every wake moment writing. Oh, and December is not good either since I have exams. Beyond that, I'll see what I can figure out, if someone else doesn't pick it up before I have the time.

>>24195
Rad. I realize this is a busy time of year so maybe I'll go ahead and bump this thread in January. Thanks for the offer, if you do go through with this project I will give you my firstborn.

I'm independently researching ways of doing this as a self-learning exercise. No promises on delivering anything useable, though.

>>24195 here.

Just a quick heads-up that I haven't forgotten. I'm still working on this on-off between exams.

It's still a little too early to publish anything I've made yet. Everything I've made so far has been copied from MAL seeing as that's the base reference I was given (I have never used Anilist, so I don't know how it works,) though they have features I frankly can't see as useful in the context of THP, so I've tossed them aside.

Functionally, it's only at a stage where you can browse existing stories and authors added to the database manually, since I'll have to be thorough when handling user input. The whole idea with the site is to allow users to add and update information, creating an unofficial version of the story list, with the added features of allowing users to save the stories they're reading to a list, easily share said list, share stories with user added summaries and character tags (canon characters only. Maybe OCs if enough people want it.)

Story status, thread listing, dynamic URL generation to THP, and author has been added so far. A story can only have one author at the moment, since co-written stories are rare, I've lowered the priority of allowing multiple authors on a single story. A story holds a reference to the board it's on, but each thread inside the story will hold it's own reference to a board, allowing threads to exist on other boards than the one the story mainly takes place in (this was done to allow the dynamic URL generation to work.)

Currently, the list of threads can't be sorted by hand and will appear in the order of their post number. This should be changed before the beta version is launched sometime soon(tm).
I'm currently working on handling user input, making sure that incomplete information (missing fields, like an empty list of threads, or the lack of any board) can't be added, and the error handling is done in a satisfying way.
Planned features include but is not limited to: user recommendations, story rating, actually making the website that will display the information.
This can be subject to change.

I'm designing the server side as an API, so you can create your own interface if you want to, which is partly why I'm trying to be through with the user input. Anyone will be allowed to pull public data, but creating and updating will require a user. Deleting anything will require authorization, though normal users should be able to request deletion.

If you're thinking about using this site at all once it has launched, it would help me out a great deal if you could write down a wishlist of features you would want, though I make no promise of actually implementing them, more so to give me an idea of what the projected userbase wants.

I'll also have to decide on a name before I can launch the site. I have an idea, a very uninteresting and boring name, but a name regardless. Suggestions are welcome.

Saging because there was no real new information in this post.

>>24227
OP here. That's some rad stuff.

A rough wishlist of mine (much of which you've already planned, it seems):
- User-submitted story metadata
- Tags for genre/trope, setting, and characters
- Easy ways to find/view stories: by specific author, by tag(s), etc
- Personal lists for users to add stories they've read
- A way to sort stories by most-read or most-liked? I don't know if a scoring system is a good idea or not but at least letting users favourite/recc a story and tallying those results seems useful

I have no idea what the name should be.

Keep up the good work!

Just a status update to say I'm still working on it. It's just going slow because I've had to rewrite a lot of my test cases due to a mistake I made. But it's slowly chugging along.

If anyone is willing to help, getting a graphical design for how the website should look would take a huge load of my shoulders, since visually I design things to be minimalistic.

>Tags for genre/trope, setting, and characters
Out of that list, this is the only thing I'm dreading, because I can't imagine a way to implement it that's not going to be hell. Then again, I'll probably just have to sit down and have a proper think about it first.

Another small update, since I've made some tangible progress.

I've finished writing the test cases for 2/3 of the exposed API, which leaves one part remaining.

I've figured out how to handle the tags. Sadly, implementing them will mean I'll have to redo a part I've already done to keep things coherent. Which in turn means I'll have to rewrite those tests to reflect the intended input format.

Afterwards, I'll start working on the user side of the API. Once that's in place, I'll be able to start working on a front-end implementation, aka a website to serve as an open beta.

These tests have been the major hurdle to get past so far, just because it's so tedious to write. Nevertheless, everything is moving forward

>>24246
Thank you for your efforts. I appreciate your hard work on this project.