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  • Apr. 19th, 2020 at 12:42 PM
Welcome to the 2020 hindsight post!

1. Did the scheduling work? How did reveals on Yuri's Night feel? This year was a little bit awkward scheduling-wise on my end – some of that was this year, but some will continue into the forseeable future. What do you think of the week-and-a-weekend timeline for nominations and signups? Looking at the calendars for 2021 and 2022 would give 5 weeks and some days between assignments and the deadline. The main method to get more would be to compress nominations and sign-ups into a smaller timespan. Do you think the tradeoff would be worth it? – Relatedly, was there any scheduling overlap with other exchanges that adversely affected your participation?

2. This was the first year Interactive Fiction was its own thing to match on – do you think the minimum creation requirements (1,000 words total OR 3 different endings) worked, or should they be adjusted?

3. Relatedly, since there were multiple minimum creation requirement options for IF, do you think the ones for podfic should be adjusted from the current 500 words of a new story, written and podficced to 500 words of a new story, written and podficced OR podfic of an existing story 1,000 words long? I recall there was discussion of this a few years back but nothing came out of it.

4. Was there anything unclear in the instructions or rules?

5. Anything else you'd like to give as feedback?

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weakinteraction: adapted from the version on Wikimedia Commons (Default)
[personal profile] weakinteraction wrote:
Apr. 19th, 2020 10:32 pm (UTC)
1. I'm in favour of trimming the preparation periods in favour of longer creating time, personally. But I almost always seem to end up leaving nominating/signing up until the last minute, so from my point of view it would just change when that "last minute" was.

2. I was very glad of the ability to match on IF, because I did and I had a great time creating it. The minimums seemed fine to me; in all honesty, I think it would be difficult to create something that didn't meet them and still had any substantial interactive elements.

Thanks for running this! I had a blast. (Task for this week: read the things in the collection that aren't my gifts.)
extrapenguin: Picture of the Horsehead Nebula, with the horse wearing a hat and the text "MOD". (ssmod)
[personal profile] extrapenguin wrote:
Apr. 20th, 2020 07:20 pm (UTC)
So you'd prefer a 6th week of writing? I'll see how my schedule shakes out next year. (There might be a poll.)

The minimums seemed fine to me; in all honesty, I think it would be difficult to create something that didn't meet them and still had any substantial interactive elements.
Nodnod. They'll stay for the next round. I'm glad you enjoyed making the IF!