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What do you all think of adding a board(s) for posting stories?

It's nice.  I thought it'd be easy to add here, though, and a great way to discover new authors.

Why should we make something that would ultimately be crappy, if there is already a solution in existence by people who have a userbase, fanse, contributors and most importantly, experience at what they do?

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And how many words do you think you could get for each image? A full short story can easily be under 10k in size (RTF format, .txt would most likely be less since it doesn't include any metainformation). An image of reasonable size and quality would rarely get under 50-100k.

Not saying I neccesarily think fchan should serve text (though the thought of Yiffstar as fchan for stories almost changes my mind... *shudder* ^_~), but I find it hard to imagine bandwidth would be a deciding factor.

This has nothing to do with bandwidth at all. It is exactly as i said:

Why should we offer a SUB-PAR service, when an excellent provider for this service already exists?

@ bandwidth: This is currently one of my lesser concerns. As it turned out the problems we had were caused by apache.
Apparently the amounts of accesses we had caused it to bring even a monster of a machine with a dual opteron setup, each running at 2200 MHz, 8 GB of memory and 1.5 TB of harddrive space to it's knees. Since we switched to Lighttpd my live has become much easier and the server much less stressed, which is one of the reasons for me increasing the board and thread sizes.