cahn | Announcing Rheinsberg: Frederick the Great discussion post 10

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So for anyone who is reading this and would like to learn more about Frederick the Great and his contemporaries, but who doesn't want to wade through 500k (600k?) words worth of comments and an increasingly sprawling comment section:

We now have a community,

rheinsberg, that has quite a lot of the interesting historical content (and more coming regularly), organized nicely with lots of lovely tags so if there's any subject you are interested in it is easy to find :D

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From:

selenak

The problem with too many chronology posts that I see is that if we put them all up at the start, it might put people off? Though otoh they could certainly be useful.

From:

mildred_of_midgard

What if we didn't put them in Rheinsberg yet, but started composing them elsewhere and making suggestions to each other and answering each other's questions about when things happened, and then we put the final product all in one post, each mini-chronology behind a cut? I think it would be useful to have more chronologies, I just don't want to do them all myself without help, especially the things I only know about from you.

From:

cahn

I was thinking that we could just sticky the general brief chronology and possibly the ginormous huge chronology, and all other mini-chronology posts just tag, since there's not a real reason they need to be stickied anyway.

From:

mildred_of_midgard

I agree with not stickying, but even if we just post them, unless we back-date them, they'll still flood the first page of entries, and I can see where that would be off-putting ~~to people who are not me~~.

We could back-date them, of course. But I'd be in favor of a joint effort working through rough drafts first, and then we can figure out what we want to do with the final products.

From:

cahn

I definitely like the idea of working through rough drafts first! (Though I of course have much less of a dog in this fight, given that the only chronology I could possibly contribute to would be Emilie's.) But I kinda have been assuming that whenever they get posted, in another week or two we'd have another set of posts ~~probably on Katte~~ knocking the chronology posts off the first page :)