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phoenixdown_modAuthors are now revealed! Thank you all for participating in this round, we hope that you had fun!
phoenixdown_modAuthors Revealed & Survey
May. 3rd, 2024 10:02 pmphoenixdown_modAnd with author reveals, the first round of this exchange comes to an end. A warm thank you to everyone who has taken part <3 The collection will now stay open and unmoderated for any post-reveal treat.
We'd like to hear some feedback to help us improve next year's round, and we have some questions about the schedule and the minimum requirements.
Would shifting the event to any other moment of the year change anything in regards to participation? We choose this current schedule based on ours - the mods - availability, but we'd open to switch things around (*actual schedule will still be dependent on our actual availability).
We'd prefer to avoid running it during the november/december/january/first half of february block as it would overlap with too many popular exchanges like Trick or Treat, Yuletide and Chocolate Box/Candy Hearts, but we would consider it if people said they'd overwhelmingly prefer it.
Would extending the length of the creation period change anything in regards to participation? We thought that six weeks for a minimum of 1000 words/a complete artwork on clean paper was a reasonable timeframe, but we wouldn't mind going for eight weeks.
Similarly, would shortening the minimum requirements (while keeping the current six weeks for creation) change anything in regards to participation? Would people prefer a 500 words minimum for fics/a nice sketch on clean paper for art?
Another rule we plan to implement next round is forbidding uploading artworks to discord, since discord has started to disallow hotlinking.
If you have any questions or suggestions about anything, even things not covered in this post, please don't hesitate to let us know by commenting on this post (comments are public and unscreened). If you'd rather do it in private, you can reach out to us via dm to the mod account or via mail at phoenixdownmod at gmail dot com
We'd like to hear some feedback to help us improve next year's round, and we have some questions about the schedule and the minimum requirements.
Would shifting the event to any other moment of the year change anything in regards to participation? We choose this current schedule based on ours - the mods - availability, but we'd open to switch things around (*actual schedule will still be dependent on our actual availability).
We'd prefer to avoid running it during the november/december/january/first half of february block as it would overlap with too many popular exchanges like Trick or Treat, Yuletide and Chocolate Box/Candy Hearts, but we would consider it if people said they'd overwhelmingly prefer it.
Current schedule has nominations & signups in the second half of february, a creation period spanning march and the first week of april, with reveals at the end of april.
A hypothetical summer schedule would see the nominations start in june, with sign ups at the end of june/early july and the creation period lasting all through august, leaving reveals in september.
Another rule we plan to implement next round is forbidding uploading artworks to discord, since discord has started to disallow hotlinking.
If you have any questions or suggestions about anything, even things not covered in this post, please don't hesitate to let us know by commenting on this post (comments are public and unscreened). If you'd rather do it in private, you can reach out to us via dm to the mod account or via mail at phoenixdownmod at gmail dot com