Into the Forest discussion

Ginger wrote: "Excellent challenge and I love all of the suggestions! I love the Aurthurian legends and have read a few books, any suggestions on favorites?
I am having troubles with the non european fairy tales ..."

I really liked Taliesin when I was younger, but I tried re-reading it a couple of years ago and the Christian overtones grated on my nerves... I really liked The Crystal Cave though. And The Mists of Avalon of course.

For some more obscure selections - if you like Catherynne Valente, she wrote Under in the Mere which is a series of vignettes from the perspective of various minor characters of the legend. I quite liked it. It's been reprinted in Myths of Origin: Four Short Novels which should be much easier to find than the novella.

Jane Yolen wrote Merlin's Booke, which plays with all the different versions of Merlin in the various source material.

I'd recommend Hawk of May to anyone that wants something influenced by Arthurian legends but not something about the main players.

I'm considering The King's Peace by Jo Walton for the category. I've heard it's very good.

For the non-European collection, I'm probably just going to go to the library and browse around the folklore section until something catches my eye.

Jalilah wrote: "Ginger wrote: "Excellent challenge and I love all of the suggestions! I love the Aurthurian legends and have read a few books, any suggestions on favorites?
I am having troubles with the non europe..."

Thanks :) I was stuck thinking inside the box!

Alicia wrote: "Is there going to be a 2014 challenge progress folder or do we do our bragging here?"

Good question Alicia, I was just thinking the same thing!
I think I will start up a new thread!

How do I hide the 2014 Challenge from the Group's Home page? Or is that a Group-Moderators only setting?

Leah wrote: "How do I hide the 2014 Challenge from the Group's Home page? Or is that a Group-Moderators only setting?"

I was trying to do this myself, but couldn't. Chris or Melanti, do either of you two know how?

Leah wrote: "How do I hide the 2014 Challenge from the Group's Home page? Or is that a Group-Moderators only setting?"

I only I see an option to delete it.

You can't really hide it and when you view the group, it'll show the 5 most recent posts in each folder.

We could create a "old challenges" folder and move the 2012-2014 threads there, and that should help. But it'd be harder to refer back to them if anyone wants to do so.

Oh, okay, Jalilah. I thought it was set up so that once the challenge was over (set by date) then it expired from the Home page and was archived. When it didn't I thought maybe I was missing how to hide it from my settings.

Melanti, Just to clarify I'm referring to our Group Home page, not discussions or discussion folders. Right now my view of the Group Home page lists the Currently Reading section, then Challenges, then Discussion Board. I thought the 2014 challenge (which is listed under the 2015 challenge in the Challenges section) might have a setting to automatically hide itself on 1/1/2015 (since the challenge was over on 12/31/2014).

Is there by chance a setting to limit the number of challenges visible on a Group's Home page?

Sorry, I misunderstood! The answer is unfortunately not.

(I had to join and look around on the mod's support group to find the answer.)

Ellie [The Empress] wrote: "Beware, group challenges cannot be hidden or moved, You either need to delete them or make new ones!"

So, 2 challenges show at a time. If we make another challenge, the 2014 one will be hidden. (it could be something small, or silly) Otherwise, we can only delete the 2014 one.

I appreciate your follow-up on this one!

What does everyone else think about it? Since only Jalilah and I were looking for a way to hide it, I'm wondering if we should just let it be. It's feel wrong somehow to all out delete an entire challenge.

Leah wrote: "I appreciate your follow-up on this one!

What does everyone else think about it? Since only Jalilah and I were looking for a way to hide it, I'm wondering if we should just let it be. It's feel wr..."


Originally I tried unsuccessfully to hide the 2014 challenge just so it would look tidier and so people would not mix it up with the 2015. Personally it does not bother me that much that I feel it needs to be deleted.

I don't care one way or the other.

K. We can leave it up.

I was thinking we could do a short challenge so that there was at least less to scroll through, but I just put up a new challenge and it didn't seem to save enough room to really be worth the confusion it'd cause. Spoiler tags don't work within the challenges either so there's no help there.

Next year, though! If we put up a short 1 line challenge before posting 2016s, that should hide 2015. Hopefully I'll remember.