historium | Admin Updates etc.

Happy New Year! Apologies that I haven't been properly around as mod for the past few weeks, but I'm back now. (And also that, to add to the confusion, I changed my name in the meantime, but this is still lost_spook, your original mod of this comm and not an impostor. Er. Honest!)

Anyway, some updates etc.:

* I have set the community default to "is suitable for everyone", which should solve the problem for people who were seeing every entry as cut when logged out. This does mean that if you do post NSFW material here (which is welcome!), you'll need to alter the Age restriction box on your individual post to whatever you deem most appropriate. (As most fanworks tend to be linked from here rather than posted directly, I shouldn't think this will affect many posts in any case).

* On a similar note, I originally chose the layout 'Mobility' as it was said to be good for mobile users, but it was unfortunately minus the navigation bar making it hard for people to post to and join the comm, which is pretty fundamental, so I changed it to this one. If any of the other free layouts work better for mobile users and still have the grey navigation bar at the top, let me know, and I'll see if we can use that instead.

* We now have a third mod,

dimity_blue as well as myself and

auroracloud.

* I've been adding fandom tags etc as we go - please let me know if I have missed any or tagged anything incorrectly & I will do my best to fix it. I have been trying to keep everything other than fandom tags to a minimum so that we avoid hitting the Dreamwidth max tags limit too soon, but again, let me know if there's something important I've missed or messed up.

* Suggestions for the community (from the introductory post) are:

- commentfest/promptfest/fic exchange/ficathon
- Resources post(s)
- themed challenges
- fandom manifestos/pimping
- linkspams/round up posts/newsletters

The good news is that most of these are not only great ideas, but will definitely happen here! A resources post will follow presently. The challenges idea could combine well with the other suggestions in any case.

It wouldn't be realistic to try and do a regular linkspam/newsletter for such a wide topic as 'all history' but any relevant linkspams, recs and individual links posts from members are very welcome here - and if anybody sets up any further speciifc newsletters or regular round ups on a topic, do please pimp there here, or use this as a base.

Plus, if you're into the Age of Sail era, there is already

despatches, the newsletter for that period & fandoms. There's also

archaeology_weekly, too, on the non-fannish side.

Other than that - please continue to use the community for fanwork announcements, pimping events, sharing news & links, promoting your historical fandoms, discussion posts, gauging interest on more specific comms or anything else you can think of that's on topic for

historium. A community, essentially, is its members, so this is your space - please feel free to use it!

Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

From:

dhampyresa

Happy new year!

thisbluespirit

Thank you! And to you!

sylvaine

I'm currently on mobile and this seems like a perfectly good theme for it! Have you set the posts to also display with the theme? (I have my theme set as standard everywhere so I can't tell.)

Oh, that's good to hear! I have the page set to display with the theme, yes, but I can always set it to default if that's more helpful? (If we do a commentfest, we will probably have to, at least temporarily!)

At least on mobile it's infinitely more helpful to keep it like this - the default isn't mobile-optimized so it's a lot of zooming in and scrolling sideways to read!