Would it be possible to have this kind of activity on Tumblr?

[printfogey]

Much as I love this comm and have many many fond memories of it - not to mention that most of my shorter fiction for One Piece were first posted here and inspired by the prompts here - it really does seem like activity is dying down for good now. I know I don't have half the ideas I used to have, myself, and also less energy - but like I think many

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[jadekitty777]

If it moves to tumblr then the format will have to change I think. But I'm not sure it'll work at all because one person will be entirely in charge of the blog and if they decide they don't care anymore, then the entire system will just fall apart, unlike with LJ which allows us to still post, etc even if the original admin is not around.

I'm gonna be honest it's hard to get motivated just in general every new prompt too. Once I got wound up in my new position I all but forgot about this place... sadly. So I definitely am not one to really look to for answers or ideas on how to organize something like this. xD;;

[shindahotaru]

I'm sorry for being so absent lately. I've planned to contribute a drawing to the prompt but then I broke my leg and now I have a shitload of deadlines for school to focus on

[printfogey]

I'm sorry to hear about your leg! Of course you need to focus on school first

[stelra_etnae]

I have a suggestion for a possible format we could use should we try for the shift to Tumblr

[printfogey]

I'm not sure, but I think Tumblr tags entries based on chronological order.
It occurs to me that it probably would be good to have one non-Tumblr site - maybe this one, maybe a new one on Dreamwidth - serving as an archive with links to contributions posted, because Tumblr is not very good at that.

I'm not quite sure if I understand your suggestion - if there is only one prompt per fic or art, why would all entries be tagged with the same prompt?

Would this be a "first come, first served" thing or would the first prompter know in advance that the prompt was made for A, and would A know their prompt would be for B, etc?

What happens if both B and C have a good idea for A:s prompt and each of them go off and write or draw something, but B happens to post their entry first?

(The fun thing about chaos threads is that you can have many people responding to the same prompt, and each will leave a new prompt, which may or may not be picked up by one or several other people, etc etc... But then it's all collected on the same journal. On

[stelra_etnae]

Oops, the wording got a little confusing, didn't it? In the case of the tags, I actually meant the community name rather than prompt. So the tag would be something like you suggested, eg. onepiece-300 so that when people search the tag they'll be able to find all the entries together

[printfogey]

Thank you for explaining! I think I get it better now. Your second suggestion sounds a bit more complicated - I think it's good to keep it as simple as possible for potential new contributors. Although even with the first suggestion one would have to remember to use different tags... hm.

I like the idea of trying both Tumblr and Dreamwidth at the same time, at least for a few months. We could start by posting the first prompt on both sites, and then do it traditionally for Dreamwidth (everyone uses the same prompt until one is declared a winner by the promptmaker) and on Tumblr follow one of your suggestions, perhaps.

What do you think about adding one category for fics between 300 and 1000 words?

But in that case perhaps the comm name and Tumblr tag should be onepiece-1000 instead... Or onepiece-challenge, if that's not already in use.

[ishimura]

I can't say much what hasn't been already discussed here, just my personal opinions. I think Dreamwidth would be neat because it has the same format, and I wouldn't mind posting to tumblr either. Both platforms have their pros and cons.

[synvamp]

I have been absent for a million years & I am a technophobe with no experience with tumblr / reddit etc but I just wanted to say... thanks.

This comm has been such a lovely part of the fandom & I've really enjoyed it. I really appreciate all the time and love that has gone into it.

It's been great <3