Dead Dog Post

[zvi]

There is a tradition in conventions to have a "Dead Dog" panel at the end of a con, where you let the con moderators know what went right and what went wrong with the convention. I'm going to try that with this challenge, so it can run better next year.

I don't have many specific questions, just in general I'd like to know:

-- did I do something that made it easier for you to participate?
-- did I do something that made it harder for you to participate?
-- what really cool thing did I not do that you wish I had?

Specifically, I did wonder if people would like

a) to open the stories up to relationships with greater than three people? Please think about this not just from the perspective of how great it would be that you can now request your OT4 as part of 3 Ships, but also how you're going to react when you get that OT9 assignment in the fandom you offered just so you had three offers.

b) to collect, as a challenge community, recommendations for threesome stories that have been posted outside of 3 Ships?

c) to make available a list of unassigned prompts that people could pick up and write, and, if they finished by the deadline, include as part of 3 Ships?

If you don't feel like commenting publicly, feel free to pm me or e-mail me.

Comments

Dead Dog Thoughts :)

[(Anonymous)]

Info on Yuletide nominations got me thinking about three ships, so i swung by this way.

Some thoughts/suggestions/observances:

~ I really hope you'll host the fest on AO3 this year. While I appreciate wanting to uphold the tradition of keeping it on your website, I find it frustrating from a user perspective. I often go back and see typos and things that just didn't catch my beta or my eye before sending it to, and if it were on AO3, I could go in and fix that their/there/they're or lose/loose mistake a month later without having to bug you about it.

~Commenting on your website has always been a pain. I'm never notified when I receive ac comment, even when I sign up to have the comments sent to me. Likewise, I never receive answers to my comments. Even making comments has been a real pain due to the system you are using. None of these concerns are present in the AO3 comment system.

~ Additionally, I find the color combination of your website and the font used difficult from an accessibility standpoint.

Other thoughts:

I would really, really not want to open this up to more than OT3. I gladly sign up to write Star Trek XI now, but having to write all crew members in some type of relationship together? No way. I can't juggle that many people in a relationship.

I definitely think the unpicked prompts being available to write - something like Yuletide Treats? - would be fun!

Anyway, I can't wait for 3ships this year and I def hope it is happening again.

Re: Dead Dog Thoughts :)

[zvi]

- I'm absolutely not hosting on AO3. The archive is hammered right now, in September, with no big fests running. It will be nigh on unusable when Yuletide is in full swing.

- I'm going to switch this year's comments to IntenseDebate, which is supposed to have better accessibility than the system we used the last two year's, disqus.

- You'll have to be more specific about the problems with color? The text was black on off-white this year and has been for the past three years. Do you need more contrast, less contrast? Were there any years where the color scheme worked?

If you're having a problem with the font, you need to adjust your browser settings. The CSS for the website only specifies sans serif font family, so whatever font you have designated as your default sans serif font is what is displayed. I didn't even reset the font-size to 1em.

I'm still thinking about what to do wrt OT3 vs. moresome and how to handle unpicked prompts.