In the description of my story "In The Long Run", I mentioned that it is the founding story of my "It's always the Germans" universe
Yesterday I got a somewhat angry sounding comment that said universe doesn't exist and that I should contact the admins if I'm too dense to link stories into a universe.
Now here's my conundrum: The person gets two points for noticing that there's no link to that universe (yet), and that's quite deliberate. The story sets up the universe and introduces people who will appear in later stories. However, it is still in progress and current chapters are set in 1993. The other stories will start between 1998 and 2004, so I thought it wouldn't make sense to publish the universe link already, with just one story in it and others yet to start.
Was that the right approach or should I set up the link anyway?