the problem with fan archives is that to do it right you need a staff of five people and i have never seen one with a staff larger than like, two
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you need an ops girlie, you need a programmer girlie, you need a metadata girlie, you need a moderator girlie, you need a project manager girlie
yes these all have to be different people
if four other lesbians who don¦t hate each other and don¦t have terrible takes were each willing to commit 10hr/month to make this happen, sign me up
never met them tho
@Lady Does scale not come into this?
Like can't you do more with a smaller-scale focus area?
@gaditb define scale? scale as in number of works only matters when the number of works is large. when the number of works is small the scale that matters is number of features.
moderation, website reliability, and discovery/search are three features which each require specialists and each are a requirement for any fan archive. there is no point having an archive which is not discoverable, not moderated, and always down
add a programmer to implement these features and a manager for coordinating them and there is your five
