Question thread #77

[pauamma]

It's time for another question thread!

The rules:

- You may ask any dev-related question you have in a comment. (It doesn't even need to be about Dreamwidth, although if it involves a language/library/framework/database Dreamwidth doesn't use, you will probably get answers pointing that out and suggesting a better place to ask.)
- You may also answer any question, using the guidelines given in To Answer, Or Not To Answer and in this comment thread.

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[devilbear]

I think this would be the right place...? Sorry if it's not! I was directed here from the support board, so I'm copy/pasting what I wrote there:

So, my best friend and I have been kind of unhappy with our current roleplay home but we can't afford to buy premium DW features for all of our accounts... and that means making our own DW fork would be an interesting option for us. I was wondering if the following things are possible on a self-hosted DW fork:

- Give all accounts access to "paid" features by default.
- Have one permanent invite code for us to use to make as many accounts as we want while locking out strangers and spambots.
- Import content from insanejournal and dreamwidth.

I'd also like to know what kind of hosting would be best for such a project considering we have:

- Many entries, as we've been roleplaying in our private game for eight or nine years now.
- 200+ accounts we'd like to create so our characters can have journals for each au etc. instead of being lumped together. Probably 100+ icons would go onto each account.
- At least two communities we'd want to create.
- 500mb+ of rp icons I'd want to self-host and share through an icons community, as I currently have an IJ icons comm but I'm hoping to shift away from relying on that server

Any advice would be very welcome! We're trying to decide if the project is affordable and practical, so please don't sugarcoat it if the requirements would be high priced or require too much coding knowledge.