I'm doing it, I'm opening little_details

[kutsuwamushi]

I think I have the profile page mostly finished. Now it's a matter of choosing a layout that is both accessible and not eye-watering, and making the announcement!

If anyone wants to look over the profile to see if there's anything that jumps out as unclear, please do. I'm trying to keep the length down so it's not overwhelming, so I don't want to add a lot of pre-emptive clarification, but if something is outright confusing I can reword it.

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Comments

[extrapenguin]

I'd recommend a sticky post with the same stuff as the profile, since it's easier to see a sticky post than it is to find the link to the profile. You could also have a separate clarification post you link to from the FAQ post if necessary.

[kutsuwamushi]

Good idea! I will probably do this once I'm ready to open it up all the way.

[thekumquat]

This - I just took quite a long time figuring out where to click to find the profile, even knowing there was one!

Just got a shock from getting my last post officially rejected, which I submitted in 2017 - the story I needed the info for was finally produced but I'd still love an answer. Can we post, yet?

[kutsuwamushi]

Sorry about that! There was no way to clear out the queue without rejecting or approving the posts, either of which is not the "so it's been years and this probably isn't relevant to you anymore" option.

I'm working on getting the rest of it set up today! If you want to go ahead and post again, I can approve it once all of it is done and you can be the first post!

[kutsuwamushi]

Actually, as a follow-up, I think everything is ready to go now. It would actually be great if you wanted to post a question, since it would be nice if we have some up for people to look at when I start to promote the community.

[thekumquat]

OK, will try!

[telophase]

There has been enough of an epidemic of people posting ChatGPT-derived answers to other places (including AskHistorians on Reddit!) that you might want to state that AI-derived answers are not allowed.

[kutsuwamushi]

This is a good suggestion!

[momijizukamori]

Exciting! Librarian's Dream feels like a thematically appropriate base layout, but honestly nearly any of the site layouts should be pretty good on accessibility and responsiveness (Zesty and Venture don't behave well on mobile right now but there's bugfix for that waiting on deploy). Color schemes.... may or may not be, haha.

[kutsuwamushi]

I agree with the layout suggestion! I found a relatively neutral color scheme for it too. I really wanted to use one of the kawaii ones but I guess I should probably at least try to make a good first impression.

[peachpai]

I think it sounds pretty good! Exciting!