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...I leave you guys alone for one weekend and it's time for a new Fritz post, lol!

I'm gonna reply to the previous post comments but I guess new letter-reading, etc. should go in this one :)

Frederick the Great links

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From:

mildred_of_midgard

It occurred to me that if we ever wanted to consolidate a "best of" collection of our work, we could put *that* into a community called Rheinsberg (journal title "1740 and All That").

It would also give us a chance to solve some of the problems with linking people to our current threads, which is that most of our comments assume knowledge of previous discussion. When someone went to copy a comment into Rheinsberg, they could add supplementary notes, links, and required reading as needed.

Thoughts?

ETA: Of course, we do run the risk of splitting discussion if we *do* get attention there and people leave comments and questions. But at least the main posts could be a little more polished and work as standalone pieces.

Edited Date: 2020-01-15 03:09 am (UTC)

From:

selenak

That is a good idea. When I linked

iberiandoctor to the Marwitz transcriptions, for example, they were in two different posts, and in a few more months I wouldn't be able to recall anymore where I'd made them. It would be far easier if we pulled the information/quotes from various discussions together and reordered them by topic. For our own future references as well as for potential readers.

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Agreed. We'd also be able to tag them!

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Okay, I took the liberty of creating a

rheinsberg community! I only spent about five minutes putting some bare bones together, because we should all have equal input.

I've invited you both as administrators so you can make whatever changes you want.

I debated "1740 and All That" as a community title, but while it's clever, it's not very informative to the uninitiated and probably won't draw people in. (Do we want that?) If anyone thinks of something that isn't boring but still tells people it's the place to get your Fritz fix, go for it.

[ETA: Aha! It's the community description, not the title, that shows up in search results. So I've set our description to "Frederick the Great" and our title to "1740 and All That". Feel free to offer improvements.]

I listed only a handful of interests; not sure how many of our less famous historical figures we want to list there. I used the English names because it's an English language community and they have the greatest chance of matching on people's searches, even if we use "Heinrich" and "Maria Theresia" in the actual posts.

I've made it so that only select members can post, which so far means the three of us.

Go wild!

Edited Date: 2020-01-16 04:33 am (UTC)