Roll our own?

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Again, this topic was raised in greywash's master thread and its comments, with some preliminary thoughts. Clearly, creating a whole new site would be a major undertaking, but so was AO3 and they're kind of the role model now. Can we do this? What do we need to do this? Who's interested in kicking this idea around?

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I've had a chance now to go through all (I think) the posts and comments here, and I'd like to ask the mods if you'd like me to do anything or answer anything here beyond what I laid out in my first comment. I can answer some of the technical questions to the limit of my own experience and summarize what I've investigated so far wrt non-profit/other models and payment processors, but I don't want to spam the comm.

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I think that this whole discussion is in the information-gathering stage, feeling our way to what options exist, which concerns can be answered, rather than the specific solution stage. Nonetheless, collecting and looking at possibilities is part of what we want to do right now, so thank you for adding this to the discussion.

Feel free to add more information or, if you prefer not to overwhelm with detail, posting some of that to your own site and then linking to it from here is also fine.