rikkai.club

[adevyish]

As I no longer trust AO3’s databases, I’ve finally set up a personal fannish website: rikkai.club.

It’s still a WIP as I move fics over. I also mirrored several fics on here, but my social media fic aren’t easily ported to Dreamwidth.

Comments

[veriest]

this is an incredibly satisfying site

[adevyish]

Thanks! Eleventy’s really nice in that it lets you make custom filters, so you have a lot of control over post collections. I still need to figure out a nicer way to do multi-chapter fics (right now it’s a tag AND a yaml field).

[veriest]

*taking notes for future reference* I would be curious when you figure it out! I'm kind of tempted to do my own personal site now. (early 2000s internet nostalgia intensifies)

[adevyish]

For background, in Eleventy there is something called collections which contains:

• collections['all'] - every page on your site
• collections['posts'] - every post on your site (that is, anything with the tag 'posts' and anything in the folder content/blog/)
• collections['various tags you make up']

The way I’m handling multi-chapter fic is that they each have their unique own tag, e.g. "series: beautiful cars".

• On the fic’s chapter index, I list out every post in the collections['series: beautiful cars'] tag.
• On each chapter, I look for neighbouring posts in the collections['series: beautiful cars'] tag to add prev/next navigation. Right now I figure out what tag is the fic's unique tag using a separate data field, but in theory I could just get the first tag with "series:" in it and assume it is the fic's unique tag.
• On the tags page, I exclude "series:" tags from displaying with a filter.

Alternately

You can also use Eleventy’s pagination feature to split one fic into multiple pages. However I hate editing one massive file and I hate putting big chunks of data into YAML, so I haven’t looked into it further.