{"id":442,"date":"2008-02-14T16:28:38","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T22:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nerdflood.wordpress.com\/?p=442"},"modified":"2008-02-14T16:28:38","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T22:28:38","slug":"ficlets-has-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/ficlets-has-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Ficlets has competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that there are other entries in the short collaborative fiction space, namely <a href=\"http:\/\/novlet.com\">Novlet<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/portrayl.com\">Portrayl<\/a> (both of which were profiled along with <a href=\"http:\/\/ficlets.com\">Ficlets<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readwriteweb.com\/archives\/writing_novlet_portrayl_ficlets_unblokt.php\">ReadWriteWeb<\/a> a while back). But they hadn&#8217;t gained the same amount of traction and their user bases are still relatively small.<\/p>\n<p>However, a new challenger has appeared on the scene called <a href=\"http:\/\/protagonize.com\">Protagonize<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexa.com\/data\/details\/traffic_details\/protagonize.com?site0=ficlets.com&amp;site1=protagonize.com&amp;y=r&amp;z=3&amp;h=300&amp;w=610&amp;range=3m&amp;size=Medium\">according to Alexa<\/a>, it has enjoyed some fairly interesting traffic numbers over the past couple of months. It has nearly the same premise, and a heavy userbase that appears to be constantly creating. It&#8217;s a chore to sift through the content at this point, there&#8217;s so much of it. But, I have to say, the quality of the writing so far is truly amazing to witness. I&#8217;ve been planning to get some more Ficlets written lately, and I might just have to start cross-posting and seeing what kind of a community builds around the content on Protagonize.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.protagonize.com\/author\/DrSetebos\">I has a profile<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know that there are other entries in the short collaborative fiction space, namely Novlet and Portrayl (both of which were profiled along with Ficlets by ReadWriteWeb a while back). But they hadn&#8217;t gained the same amount of traction and their user bases are still relatively small. However, a new challenger has appeared on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[244],"tags":[425,549,550,457],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing","tag-ficlets","tag-protagonize","tag-social-network","tag-web-2-0","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}