# About the Stories category... **URL:** \ **Category:** Stories\ **Tags:** timeline\ **Created:** [May 20, 2022, 10:57am UTC](https://noobish.me/t/about-the-stories-category/12 "2022-05-20T10:57:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nOObish](https://noobish.me/user_avatar/noobish.me/noobish/32/13_2.png) [@nOObish](https://noobish.me/u/nOObish)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2022, 10:57am UTC](https://noobish.me/t/about-the-stories-category/12/1 "2022-05-20T10:57:31Z")
One goal of this site is to configure a [Discourse Forum](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-new-user-guide/96331) as an open-source, [crowdsourced](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdsourcing) storytelling platform at the domain [https://story.pub](https://story.pub) For example… > [@The Story of the Internet](http://noobish.me/t/the-story-of-the-internet/278): > > Properly told, telling the true and complete story will require many authors, each telling their own firsthand stories within this larger story. Those of us who have lived it will not be around forever and so it is up to us to document the true stories and lessons learned for future history. One goal of this site is to develop a public forum customized for this purpose, to be hosted at [https://storyoftheinternet.org](https://storyoftheinternet.org). You can learn more about that here… [[ihof-brief-history-of-the-internet]](https://www.internethalloffame.org/brief-history-internet)[[…](https://www.internethalloffame.org/internet-history/timeline) A model of a classic timeline-based storytelling tool is [TimelineJS](https://knightlab.northwestern.edu/projects/) wherein a single author presents a chronology of events as a series of slides, often presenting historical people, events and facts through various multimedia items embedded within the slides… ![timelinejs-example](https://noobish.me/uploads/default/original/1X/b122591105b344d3427cf88a8334a0eafc92aaae.jpeg) On this forum we use a **Story** category as our top-level container for a Story. A Story category contains multiple **Topics**. Each Topic contains a _story within the story_. In order to tell this _story within the story_ each Topic contains multiple **Posts** , or _Slides_, arranged chronologically along a vertically-scrolling **Timeline**. The Author of each Post (or _Slide_) manually assigns it a date where it will appear within that Topic’s Timeline. Authors can then merge and combine and re-sequence these multiple Topics (or _Timelines_) to re-tell the same (or a different) story from the perspectives of different people and for different purposes. Forum users with the **Authors** privilege can create new Topics and **Tags** , and publish Posts using the built-in editor… ![discourse editor-example](https://noobish.me/uploads/default/original/1X/3de0f01d21a32929dea04aa7278c88b780ff2fca.png) The Author of a Post may include images, videos, audio files, links, and anything else that can be embedded in a web page, as well as a Table of Contents for longer Posts… ![discourse-toc-example](https://noobish.me/uploads/default/original/1X/44c1864c0c27f9bd7257d568529cfbbde65d60a8.png) When a new historical person is introduced or mentioned within a Story, a new forum **User** is created to represent that person, creating a new _Character_ in the Story. That new User is then used by Authors as they Post about, or mention, or refer to that person (or _Character_). Ideally (but not necessarily), the people who actually _lived the story_ can be engaged to participate by adding Posts about their own _stories within the story_. The vertically-scrolling Timeline slider appears on the right side of all Topics/Timelines to provide quick navigation (up and down) through the Posts/Slides on the Timeline. On smaller screens a progress bar appears which can optionally be expanded to reveal the vertical slider, as demonstrated in this video: [https://blog.discourse.org/content/media/2022/03/discourse-mobile-progress-bar.mp4](https://blog.discourse.org/content/media/2022/03/discourse-mobile-progress-bar.mp4) ---
**Author:** ![nOObish](https://noobish.me/user_avatar/noobish.me/noobish/32/13_2.png) [@nOObish](https://noobish.me/u/nOObish)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://noobish.me/t/about-the-stories-category/12/4 "2022-10-27T21:55:41Z")