An Anniversary with Change

This Friday, September 25, 2020, marks the three-year anniversary of Progressives Chat.

This blog site was created, and with the help of cathyx, in the aftermath of The Far Left Chat having ended at some point during September 2017.

In the early period of Progressives Chat, I published blog topics five days per week, which included ones on Fridays titled “Open Weekend.”

I later reduced blog topics to three days per week.

Afterward, I brought them down to two days per week.

Last month, it was suggested by cathyx—and the comment received a consensus of Likes—that publishing a blog topic [thread] just once per week may be better for Progressives Chat.

I agree.

In fact, I thought of making this change effective with the start of 2021. (That would have been the date of January 4, 2021.) But, timing it with the beginning of this month, September 2020, also works with respect to this anniversary.

A concern I did have was a second issue, happening in a given week, which may be necessary for its own blog topic. I realize the solution is to maintain one thread which is in effect for the period of one week. And if anything more comes up, I will revise that applicable week’s blog topic by adding an entry. In such case, I will note the date and time of an addition.

The weeklong blog topics from Mondays, August 31 as well as September 7 and 14, 2020 should be considered a segue to making this move. August 31 (“Election 2020: Two Months Out”) was timed closely with both its topic as well as the beginning of September and Labor Day on September 7, 2020. (Memorial Day and Labor Day have people normally often thinking of Holiday Weekends. The extended time. For those who still get that.) And then there was last week’s blog topic—on the television-premiere anniversaries of two classic sitcoms (CBS’s The Mary Tyler Moore Show and NBC’s The Golden Girls)—to further help with the timing of this “An Anniversary with Change” for Progressives Chat.

We can take this current month, September 2020, and note it as the beginning of Progressives Chat having switched to a regular schedule of one blog topic thread per week.

The regular posting schedule will continue to be on Mondays at 06:00 a.m. ET.