/storytiem/ - Onyxdime's Storytiem

>>33668

I am of the oppinion that it is still not worth leaving for yet, its got the bare minimum but that shouldnt be good enough to move just yet. It also prety much relies on authors to give players to move but I doubt people are even looking at the beta that nobody is there to play anyway.

And just say that WiB is dead already and you dont enjoy writing as much.

>>33670

We definately have but it's better to be honest and say you don't know if you will be back to something rather than saying you will and vanish for a while. Players don't like to be left wondering if something is dead for good and prefer a direct answer saying 'I can't or don't want to write any more'. I think maybe you feeling like you should be writing something is making you want to do it even lesss which goes in a spiral of not wanting to write anymore and feeling worse about it. You're not obligated to write so you can just say when you're stopping without feeling bad about it. I don't understand why so many authours just silently disapear without saying anything. There is no shame in being considerate to your readers.

Don't try to force yourself into writing, you just need the ideas to start flowing and the desire to write will come back. Wait for inspiration.

The only problem is that infinity next has almost no features and looks like shit. Trust me, I know we're on a sinking boat here it just feels like our small community is going to be even more destroyed when we make the shift if we don't take our time and warn everyone a while in advance.

>>33672

You're probably right. We need to salvage this somehow. Perhaps there's an alternative chan somewhere for us to hide out in?

>>33673

>Perhaps there's an alternative chan somewhere for us to hide out in?

I cant see that doing anything but splitting and seperatting the family. Next is shit but when everyone crosses over (gets dumped there by force) then the site will begin to improve because ITS A BEATAAA and HE'LL PATCH IIIIIT.

Its not the best looking home or the most functional one for now but were going to have to live there till its less shit in about a week later when the time comes.

I think we should stay on 8/infinity chan. Though we should wait for a little while before moving over to the beta.

In any case, if here gets shut down entirely that's the boot in our ass to move over to Next. Until it gets dice though, we should hang out here at 8chan.

Keep this thread stickied with the link to the new one anyways since that's where we 'should' go once we abandon ship. Then the authors can move their stories since the threads are half up with the data from before the event horizon.

>>33675

This makes a lot of sense. I'll keep this thread stickied for now. Hopefully things will calm down and get stable soon.

>>33675

I don't know, man. Posting anything has been a nightmare, and the CP on the front page is some pretty crass shit. I keep banning it and banning it, but it just comes back.

Maybe we should just sticky all the active stories on the front page until things die down. This migration can't happen soon enough.

>>33678

I'd be okay with that. Maybe when we do move it would be nice to have captcha or something if possible.

In the end it depends on Onyx decision. If he thinks Next is shit and we should go somewhere else it would be easiest if he coordinated the move.

>>33687

Problem is that I don't think there are any other chan with a dice function out there. Worst case scenario they shut this place down without implementing dice on the new url.

Yeah, kind of hard to run a quest without dice rolling. I was going to suggest using online dice rollers like Invisible Castle as an interim solution, but it turns out Invisible Castle decided to up and die a couple days ago.

>>33692

Sure there's plenty of different dice rollers around, problem is that it's hard to verify what someone rolled.

So, could we go back to post numbers? Or are the post numbers generated by each board?

Also, good to see you all. The board was inactive, and I thought everyone had left.

>>33695

I'm afraid, each board generates it's own post numbers. So it would be a rolling with (basically) known results.

>>33695

I hope we'll revitalize the board somewhat. A daunting quest, but possible.

>>33698

The problem is, most people came here because of Onyx. Who is inactive most of the time. Other writers come and go, most of the time without a word of warning, and those that stay here also have their lives to attend to and/or writer's blocks, so updates are not regular, which is the main problem of the board, of which nobody is to blame to be honest. So it would require a lot of dedication to revitalise Storytiem, which might be too much for our small community of perverts.

>>33695

Rolling by numbers worked fine on 4chan because of the trafic volume, unfortunately it wouldn't work anywhere else. It was a good idea though.

>>33699

You raise some valid points. Consistency is the main problem with this type if thing, especially since most authors create their stories with grand visions and great passion and aren't really prepared for the amount of work it takes to run a longer game. Perhaps storytiem could shift focus to primarily focus on games that are smaller in scope. Monsters vs girls would be a good example of a game that works well with this philosophy!

>>33701

>Perhaps storytiem could shift focus to primarily focus on games that are smaller in scope.

That is something that is entirely dependant on an author but since there is no rush to conclude a story like it would be on /b/, larger stories make sense and are what we get.

Someone could easily do a contained story with a simple goal and a clear end and just run improv to the end if they wanted over a few days. something a easy as having 3 heroes sent in one at a time to a dark lord's perverted castle to beat him up because hes being a dick. players pick a character and are sent in untill they do the thing or more likely orgasm and the next is sent in untill heroes win or they are all 3 are captured and the story is concluded, all fap merrily.

Boom, someone get on that.

The problem with attracting people is we might attract anons who will only want to derail as much as they can. Also, just in case, because Maker took my remark a little too personal for my original intent. I didn't want to blame the authors. You all do great job and I'm thankful for it, also because I'm too lazy to join you, so I appreciate your work. I'm just sad, that many of good stories died without a single warning, leaving slowly fading hopes of continuation.

>>33704

Back in the days we used to be on the top 50 boards or whatever it is, and that drew people. But I'm not sure how much word of mouth is a factor, I don't think people talk about this place too much haha. Dirty secrets and all that~

As for growing community, maybe we should open to more content? As in, not only sexy storytiem but other story-focused board games? Like in /tg/ or something.

>>33708

This could go two ways. Either we die because people who came here for smut will drop out or we get people for tg stuff, which will dominate the original purpose of the board.

>>33709

I don't know about people dropping out, but I think more people (players included) = more fun. Some stories are great, but when it's only three anons in the thread, all the time, it gets pretty dull.

Ultimately (I think) players from both groups would interact in any interesting cyoa - which is a win/win for storytellers, be it lewd or /tg/.

>>33708

Perhaps we could keep with the lewd theme and still expand content wise? Like make storytiem a board for general smut and/or erp?

>>33710

I think you're right, but then the question is why people would choose this board over /tg/. I'm not saying it's impossible, I'm just not sure how we'd build that up.

>>33711

That's good too. I don't think there's much to gain in terms of community (/erp/ seems to be pretty slow/dead and I think the overlap is pretty big already), but expanding is good anyway.

>>33712

Due to how small are the communities, we would all profit from making one, general board. /cyoa/ seems dead, I'm unsure whether /quest/ even existed.

Basically, a board for board games, storytelling, cyoa etc. One board, due to small, splintered communities. How to convince /tg/ specifically, I can't say. On the other hand, our /storytiem/ is a pretty good-sounding, general and perfectly presentable, sfw name.

Expanding is always good, as long as nothing is lost then we are just growing.

>>33713

If other boards don't really get traffic, or don't exist I think we would do well to welcome any and all kinds of CYOA or stories. More stories going, and more people voting is always a good thing. I personally couldn't care less what they're about.

I think a big problem is that the amount of content made has slown down a lot, I remember when Some stories would have 8 votes within an hour and would have an update in less than 20 and it would continue like that most of the day. I think diluting the content of the board was made for with other stuff is a bad idea and will cause more bad than good. More players for storytiem is good, more people coming here because of other content and dont contribute to storytiem stories is bad.

Storytiem is for erotic stories and should not change in a desperate atempt to draw in people.

This is a community, and we're all part of it. I believe we all enjoy each other and the content we produce together. Written by the authors and shaped by the readers. We want it to be great, and I am optimistic that everyone will do their best to achieve that.

>>33715

>more people coming here because of other content and dont contribute to storytiem stories is bad.

I disagree - even the traffic itself would be good strictly for nsfw storytiem. Most of the players aren't especially picky in terms of content (not quality wise, but rather the idea/subject), as long as they even moderately enjoy it/shape it. Thus it seems reasonable that "while waiting for their favorite author to update" they would, even out of curiosity or boredom, contribute to the other threads - some will probably get interested as well. And goddamn, increased player activity would be a victory at this point.

>>33718

>And goddamn, increased player activity would be a victory at this point.

We are not so desperate that making Storytiem less about being Storytiem is a good idea. It's not a failing business that needs to expand its demographic or it will go bankrupt. If you try make it a hub of multipul types of sfw and nsfw conten people looking for X will come here for X and keep mostly away from Y. We should be looking for people intrested in what we already are. Or as I see the problem as, have more relevant content for players to play. Low story output (like 2 active stories maybe updating once a day as it is) results in low player response.

>>33719

The problem is visibility, not brand. It's just become impossible to advertise on the hubs lately. When last I went to /b/ to try and run a game my thread got pruned within minutes. Advertising on /d/ and /h/ got me hit with the same treatment even when I was dumping content relevant to the boards.

Maybe /aco/ will be different? Either way, it's demoralizing when I can't even advertise the board properly. Perhaps there's a subreddit that'll be more welcoming…

>>33719

While I agree with your points, especially about the fact that we should be looking for people interested in what we already are as well as that increasing story output would help immensely.

I still disagree about my original point; i.e. I don't think anons "looking for X will come here for X and keep mostly away from Y." It doesn't work that way and more importantly, nsfw cyoa vs sfw cyoa isn't that much different to completely alienate the whole playerbase. Or to put it different terms, the overlap is quite big and players who are into one are most probably at least positively indifferent. Of course there are guys that shit on everything else just on principle.

>>33720

This too - long time ago I ran games (both sfw and nsfw) on half /b/ and /tg/. Not only /b/ anons kept alive the thread (since /b/ is so quick, that while one is writing updates, it would momentarily disappear), everyone had fun without "lel so randumb" shit. Fuck, I originally discovered Onyx through /b/. Same shit with /tg/; one of the best players/games I had were on /tg/. Now it's ban hammer galore with overzealous mods and worst of all, unfounded elitism. It's indeed very demoralizing.

>>33721

I might give /aco/ a shot soon. Dump some shitty western art while I'm at it. The board moves slow enough that it won't be too hard for me to keep my head above water, and it's a different mod team so maybe it'll survive more than five minutes. I'll put together a one session story or something and give it a go.

>>33721

The thing you lose me on is the sfw part. If you look at the top of the board it says "Erotic player driven stories with a twist." with the key word being erotic. So as far as im concerned sfw stories have no place her since it goes completly agfainst the point of /Storytiem/.

And as for /aco/ I took a look at it about a week ago and found a suprising amount of quality content incluting a cyoa story about a trap with 10/10 hips going up a futa tower that is entirely improv done by a writefag and drawfag that jerk each other off in a totaly nohomo way. Good board, I reccomend it.

1: https://desustorage.org/aco/thread/197170/

2: https://desustorage.org/aco/thread/226429

3 (current thread): http://boards.4chan.org/aco/thread/280090

>>33723

>jerk eachother off in a nonhomo way

>implying the stories on this board isn't written by raging queers who just want as many men to cum as possible

>>33726

I never described cock until I wrote straight porn.

>>33730

That is the straightest thing I've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyNJZ-2Dod4

>>33730

Bros with benefits, totally not gay. Just say no homo and you're fine.

>>33732

This was hilarious but he got something wrong. It's the balls not the cock that makes it gay.

Have you guys considered using Anonkun?

Anonkun's purpose is essentially the same as Storytiem's and the community is mostly from 4chan, so this board would fit right in.

http://anonkun.com/stories

>>33743

I'm an anonkun writer actually.

Careful, the site is kind of infamously busted (the admin is also the lead software designer) BUT man, the readers there. When I run, I easily get 10 votes in the first minute I run a vote.

I'm not even that great of one.

>>33744

Yeah, Kas is pretty insufferable at times but Fiddles is a cool guy. His new dice system is really neat. I probably should have mentioned the amount of readers too. The smallest quests can still get 7-10 voters within 10 minutes whereas the largest quests like Path of Ascendance can get 50-60 voters within 10 minutes.

>>33744

Damn, this is superb! It's perfect for my Lewd Civilization game! Thanks anon. It seems it's active as well.

However, imageboard gui and all that has its charm… on the other hand Infinity looks like dogshit.

>>33744

Damn, this is superb! It's perfect for my Lewd Civilization game! Thanks anon. It seems it's active as well.

However, imageboard gui and all that has its charm… on the other hand Infinity looks like dogshit anyway.

>>33749

Having players roll dice is still annoying, but still. It's a good site.

>>33747

>>33750

The problem is, no samefag protection; people can and will simply use dozens of public proxies to vote multiple times for what they want to win.

>>33752

Despite what some may claim, that's not very common, especially for smaller quests. You can always counter proxyfags with a fast revote that doesn't give them time to samefag.

So this movement is really killing our board. Few authors have posted anything in a while. Now I understand that is probably due to writers block or lack of time to write anything, I'm sure the server movement has stifled some actions.

Can we just make a date where we all agree to migrate to the other server? I think we should make a hard deadline so that there is no confusion in the air about what is going on, and that any writing promised (e.g gallery stories, or arcs) before this decline can be posted on this site while the rest is posted on the new server.

>>33756

>Can we just make a date where we all agree to migrate to the other server?

Its not realy possible because its not working at a usable speed for anyone, they keep taking it down to do work on it and dice is not available. So we must wait in the cold untill our new home is complete.

>>33768

Twine is why I decided to learn html and CSS. It's a strong little tool for CYOA, but I'd personally only do it as a side project. I enjoy having the audience and them shape the story too much.

http://onyxstories.blogspot.ie/

So, it looks from what I can see, that the transfer is not going down. Onyx is trying out anonkun per his blog.

Where do we want to try and go guys?

>>33775

We dont need to go anywhere. People just need to start writing again and pump some life back into this place.

>>33775

Onyx and Solstice are already running on Anonkun, so we might as well jump over. There are a lot of good quests there too.

When I do begin the story I've got planned over there I'm just going to be setting one of the tags as /storytiem/. It would be easy to find all the authors from here again if everyone did that.

>Next is dead

Good riddance. I'll begin my teachers story later today, in celebration.

>>33777

Where is solstice running on Anonkun? I haven't been able to find him

>>33797

https://anonkun.com/stories/the-agency/HyaspeCRNbFbcb9dS/home

>>33668

what storytiem needs is an actual platform with one or another nice feature that adds up to playing our kind of CYOA game.

Just moving to a similar platform is probably counterproductive as long as there are no big advantages.

Maybe the kind of platform is somewhere out there in the deep abyss of the internet we just have to find it.

>>33810

>Maybe the kind of platform is somewhere out there in the deep abyss of the internet we just have to find it.

It's called Anonkun and everyone has already gone there.