Wrapup

[fic_in_a_box_mod]

This year is going to be a short wrapup from the mod end!

Please let us know if you have any feedback or requests! This post is the best place to discuss things you feel might need adjusted (or things you absolutely want to stay the same) since it's where we check for feedback. There are a few things I asked for specific feedback about, but please feel free to post about anything!

Schedule Changes

• Next year the editing period will be 4 weeks again.
• Initial Pinch Hits won't be going out until after swaps are done next year (just to make swaps slightly easier on us!)

Medium Changes

• The Template ruleset (the one where you make a blank template of a thing and give it to someone as a specific gift to them) is going to be going away. While it has been requested, it's not one that gets filled and mostly just causes confusion with the two template related things that do get done (works in the writing ruleset that get credit if you make a template for them, and community templates!)
• Adding a typographic design ruleset: We had some questions about typographic art, e.g. for propaganda posters that are graphically designed but don't contain drawings. This will be a separate ruleset from art but otherwise should have basically the same rules. There will be a ruleset from the start but mediums that you want to create or request in this style will need to be nominated. If none are nominated then we'll remove the ruleset.
• "In-Universe Ship Manifesto (the transit kind)" will be corrected to say "manifest" instead of "manifesto".
• Length and Medium tags will be adjusted so they have the same opt in/opt-in hyphenation.

Medium Changes - Feedback Needed

• Cross Stitch and Knitting Patterns:
  • Counting stitches: I'm going to make y'all do this next year
  • Background colors: I'm going to make it a rule that background colors (e.g. the colors that would usually be white canvas for cross stitch) won't count towards credit. I will need to phrase it in such a way that it does not exclude for example the main color of emblems, so if anyone has an idea of a clear way to phrase that please let me know! If what I mean isn't clear I will try to explain better!
  • The other alternative to the above is to add a wordcount cap per piece. If that would work better for you guys, let me know!
  • Otherwise, how did the 5 words per stitch wordcount work for everyone?

Comments

[fishdip]

Thank you for modding! I loved it.