Help Looking for team members.

[Guest]

I am looking for team members wanting to create a VN content focused website.

 

The basic idea is that it would be a mix between a wikipedia and an online magazine.

Different sections would be attributed to different kinds of content, be it :

News, articles, tips and tools, complete walkthroughs (freely editable), translated VN database, etc.

 

Added to that would be a dynamic member system similiar to MAL keeping track of contrbutions and interests.

That would allow easy and automatic recommandation system to be implemented with proper tagging.

 

A team builder system may also be implemented, helping active artists, editors, translators, writers to find projects they may be interested in if they are willing to.

 

I'm looking for some team members to work with me on that project.

 

Is recquired, motivation and a promise to carry the project to an end.

I need, people with interesting ideas, programmers for coding help, designers, and later moderators for content checking.

 

Feel free to hit at my door if you are interested.

Weekly meetings (on week-ends) will be organized to set objectives and make sure that prior ones were met.

 

If you want more info, PM me.

[firecat]

you do know this is a big undertaking, where it might take a whole year to finish with HTML. Also take note that getting a domain like .com is worth $10+ and every other popular domain, then comes the monthly fee of keeping it in that host file with minimal data space and stuff. After even going through all that you still have the problem with people visiting the site, yes you can think of it as original but will people really visit for walkthroughs, advice and art?

 

There are many other sites with the same idea from worldpress, blogger, website, and timber. As a starting website it will seem like any old VN review, the site needs something better for not just the reader but many other users. Also the income where do you expect that to come from, you could "sell out" as many other sites or you could pay it out of packet. Lastly will anyone still be around after 1 year, if the important users left with no way to protect or progress the site then it will go down hill (like http://mdzanime.me/ bearly any content to keep up).

 

so keep these in mind as things always look different from the actual view.

[Guest]

I had already taken all this into account, but thank you for the reminder, I guess ... 

 

There is no software that satisfies my specific needs or the modularity I need in a website. So I have to do my own.

 

The amount of work needed is not an issue, if you are not willing to do things, they won't happen by magic.

What I'm hearing is :"dis gonna make me break a sweat".

[solidbatman]

Will there be Soon™?

[LiquidShu]

While I won't be able to help, it sounds cool and I wish you the best Maef !

[Pabloc]

The question is: will it offer anything that currently existing sites don't?

Comprehensive databases already exist (VNDB and EGS), news are covered on blogs and sites (like Hau~Omochikaeri or Fuwa), there are already places where you can look for team members (Fuwa, TL-Wiki to some extent, plus Lemmasoft for OELVN creators). Since VNs are quite niche, the "market" for sites related to them is pretty much saturated at this point. To attract a solid userbase, you'd have to offer more than all of the existing sites combined (otherwise, people will just stick to the sites they are familiar with).

 

Small suggestion: while there is a good database for VNs, there is no such thing for other kinds of eroge (ero-RPGs, dating/raising sims, strategy games, action games etc.). Maybe do something like that? I would be very useful.

[Guest]

The question is: will it offer anything that currently existing sites don't?

Comprehensive databases already exist (VNDB and EGS), news are covered on blogs and sites (like Hau~Omochikaeri or Fuwa), there are already places where you can look for team members (Fuwa, TL-Wiki to some extent, plus Lemmasoft for OELVN creators). Since VNs are quite niche, the "market" for sites related to them is pretty much saturated at this point. To attract a solid userbase, you'd have to offer more than all of the existing sites combined (otherwise, people will just stick to the sites they are familiar with).

 

I will have to disagree with most of what you said. First of all, all the sites you mentionned are very rigid in the way they work, relying only on the work of a few people to change and grow when it comes to content.

 

VNDB and EGS do not have interesting or relevant tagging than can helping people find, without external help, recommandation that can fit their tastes. Additionnaly, member contributions and corrections make this system more accurate AND participation can only help weighting the "potential interest" a member may have in a Visual Novel depending on his previous reads.

 

Hau~Omochikaeri or Fuwa have to some extent this aspect, but it are highly inefficient in the way they are designed and do not highlight most of the work created by the community (majority) itself which proves being of comparable (sometimes higher) quality to what their staff can offer. Making a free contribution system allows anyone's work to be published on the front page be the work of sufficient quality (thus explaining a minimal modding system).

 

When it comes to looking for team members, yes, there are forums were you can sort of do that, but none of them - besides lemmasoft - have been designed specifically for it. The objective is to make something intuitive, something easy for anyone to use, to update and for anyone to see. With a different profile system for example, allowing artists to showcase their work for example.

 

There is plenty of room to work with to help contributions from community members make the genre more relevant and hopefully work towards a very diverse and all around complete website.

So yeah, when it comes to the initial concept, it offers something no other site does.

 

Small suggestion: while there is a good database for VNs, there is no such thing for other kinds of eroge (ero-RPGs, dating/raising sims, strategy games, action games etc.). Maybe do something like that? I would be very useful.

 

Not interested in those, sorry.

[Down]

 

I will have to disagree with most of what you said. First of all, all the sites you mentionned are very rigid in the way they work, relying only on the work of a few people to change and grow when it comes to content.

 

VNDB and EGS do not have interesting or relevant tagging than can helping people find, without external help, recommandation that can fit their tastes. Additionnaly, member contribution, correction make this system more accurate AND participation can only help weighting the "potential interest" a member may have in a Visual Novel depending on his previous reads.

Anybody can make a new page, add new tags and edit information on vndb. EGS has a custom tag system that is pretty detailed (and more functional than vndb's retarded tags).

Automatized recommendations and tag systems have a limit, and that's why people use forums to get recommendations tailored to their tastes instead.

[Guest]

Anybody can make a new page, add new tags and edit information on vndb. EGS has a custom tag system that is pretty detailed (and more functional than vndb's retarded tags).

Automatized recommendations and tag systems have a limit, and that's why people use forums to get recommendations tailored to their tastes instead.

 

They may have a limit, but they've never even been used that way. Proper coding with the right formulas weighting the tags depending on the member's taste can facilitate the automatic recommandation process. It also works very well with a more efficient research system.

[solidbatman]

Finding a good coder is like finding a diamond. You aren't going to find them very often willing to work for free out of the kindness of their heart. Otherwise, Fuwa wouldn't be stuck in a perpetual state of Soon™

[Guest]

Half of my friends have extensive knowledge about coding. So I have an escape option.

 

But I'd rather work with people who are actually invested in the project and who want to make it happen rather than just having friends help with something they don't really care about.

[Guest]

The site will also put an emphasis on showcasing original Visual Novels that give a new light on how the genre can be used.

 

We want it to be both for the community and its growth outside of the bonds it may have constructed for itself.