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Can this tool create a complex social website?

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A community member wants to create a website that combines features from Debateart, Kialo, and Lichess. The proposed website would allow users to create or join timed debate matches on any subject, with a structured format similar to Kialo rather than long blocks of text. Voters could selectively vote on the relevance, validity, soundness, and impact of individual arguments in the debate, without having to read the entire discussion. The website would also include profiles, leaderboards, and comments.

The community members discuss the feasibility of this project, with one noting that while Webstudio can connect to a CMS and do a lot, there may be limits, and that the specific and technical nature of the project would likely require coding experience. Another community member says they are willing to learn coding for the more technical aspects, and hopes there are easy ways to handle common features like sign-in and accounts, so they can focus on the unique features.

Overall, the community members agree that the proposed website should be possible, but that it would require custom code, especially for the backend functionality.

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This may not be viable, but in case it is...

I want to create a website that's essentially a mix of these three sites:
https://www.debateart.com/
https://www.kialo.com/
https://lichess.org/

A site where you can create or join timed matches (much like in lichess, with different time controls and ratings) to debate virtually any subject you like.

But during the debates, instead of each person having day(s) to come up with a big block of text like in Debateart, the debates will generally be much faster and structured like they are in Kialo, making them much more systematic.

Voters, instead of having to read the whole debate to have any input, can vote on individual arguments in the kialo-esque chart according to their relevance, validity, soundness and impact on the parent claim. They can vote on as many or as few arguments as they want, perhaps restricted by whether or not they've voted on the child arguments.

There would be profiles, leaderboards, comments, etc.

Is this viable using this tool with not a lot of coding experience, almost no money and less than 2k hours of total work?
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Interested in this as well. Webstudio can connect to a CMS (external database) so I imagine it can do a lot but I'm sure there's some limit.
Generally for something this specific and technical you do need to be able to code but idk πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
I can definitely learn and do coding if it's required for the more specific technical stuff. I was really just hoping there is an easy way to handle stuff like signing/logging in, accounts, and a good bit of other common stuff (especially front-end) so I could focus on the more unique features.
Lots of these things will require custom code, but overall yes, it should be possible
Thank you for the answer, that's awesome.
Generally speaking, how do you use custom code for this kind of backend stuff tho? Would that be done through a 3rd party? Seems like webstudio is mostly just frontend. Is that correct?
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