Feature Request A long shot request

I was think that it would be interesting to make an English version of ncode.syosetu.com. Honestly, I do not know how it work or what it is since it's Japanese, but I assume it's an online story sharing site.

I was thinking it would be nice if it could be implemented with a twitch type of style. Basically people supporting the stories they like, and also implementing a way to avoid charging for faster/next chapter. Now I might be getting ahead of myself.

If people want, they are free to dual host like how pirateyoshi does with moonbunnycafe. I just believe it would be nice to have a central hub to discover new web/light novels (let it be foreign or local).

 

do you mean something like original english novel hosting?
@Tony have plan to make similar web for NU that solely focus on Original one

 

He did?

 

uh huh in announcement or something thread he said it have similar thing I read it on thread or was it on @Parth37955 rant about original novel

 

http://forum.novelupdates.com/posts/655408/ there~

 

Indeed, I do mean hosting. I did in fact see that NovelUpdates was planning on adding originals into their update directory, that would be nice.

 

First of all, Shousetsuka(syosetu) actually doesn't hold any rights to the novels they're publishing. They're just a platform the authors can use to publish their novel. So believe it or not, they actually don't have any capacity to negotiate about any kinds of deals regarding the novel. The closest you'll get would be talking to authors. But then again, if the novels have been published, the authors won't have the full rights (or publishing rights) to their novel and they'll tell you to talk to their publishers. And knowing some of the publishers, they'll most likely decline, unless a considerable amount of money goes to them.

EDIT: I meant, considering Novel Updates is a site for translation feeds... I assumed it was about translating. >.>

 

I might be misunderstanding this, but if feels like your rebuking me. It could be your simply informing me since I mentioned I did not know how it works, but as I stated, I understood it was merely an online story sharing site. I never implied, or at least I didn't mean to, that they get any type of rights, or have anything related to publisher. I just thought it would be nice to have an English version of it. I included twitch as an addition to the suggestion to show a possibility of supporting the authors, but it most likely won't be needed since authors are wild about sharing their stories.

And I feel like expanding is always a plus. For example, it does show in the to do updates that they are planning on implementing for feeds for original novels as well. So it's not such a stretch to add a hosting service for it as well.

 

Well, this exists already doesn't it? There's royalroadl.com (Although it's a ton of shitty stories.) and then there's a ton of others like wattpad, quotev and fictionpress etc etc. There's not really a central one, but I doubt you'll be able to create that so easily.

 

I guess the way I said it gives that vibe, sorry about that. I didn't expect that you'd be referring to original novels, since that has been asked in this sub-forum a bunch of times already, so I just assumed you were already aware of that. And I guess Tony did not really explicitly announce it either and just mentioned it in passing, so people except those who read that thread aren't actually aware about that plan. In fact, I wouldn't even know about it if not for Parth mentioning it to me.

My whole argument was actually based on your first sentence, "I was think that it would be interesting to make an English version of ncode.syosetu.com", so I just assumed you were asking for a literal english version of Shousetsuka. Which would have a lot of implications. lol

 

for directory the closet one I can think
https://www.wlnupdates.com/
and
http://aho-updates.com/
they both have Original one well maybe for translated novel less popular with current NU but it's good to see news from translator on their own web

 

^_^ It could easily be misunderstood, don't feel bad about it. I do that quite often. I try to validate stuff before wasting other's time, so I browsed the forums and noticed those two things you pointed out (There is a sub forums for Original Novels, and the TO DO List). The reason I mentioned ncode.syosetu was to give a general idea. Having everything in a sub forum makes it a bit cluttered, as well as hidden for people who dislike forums. So by mentioned ncode, it give a general idea of implementing a similar style. Of course it's quite the work to do so, thus the title of the thread.

I heard about aho, but not so much the other one. I'll take a look, thank you.

 

Wait.

So pretty much wattpad? Or RRL?

 

similar to NU but for ori what I mean is directory~