would upvalue to see @Y RPG

players and DM getting paid by the audience that reads it

where do text based rpg people hang out? are there platforms for this? might be worth showing off this use case

no idea, I never did text base RPG before, but honestly this platform is a very good fit I would say. Gotta get used to sorting things, perhaps if it was possible to re-organize the main thread you could have different locations, like bars and what not, players could individually go to the place where they want and chat there, a moderator could archive stuff that is out of place. Not sure if that's feasible, but would be interesting