Got Issues Update #8
- We were at 1330 issues last time, so it's 127 since then. It's also more than a year since our last update.
- It's old news now, but Electrum and Noah joined the team following our last Issues Contest; Frieden-und Freudenland also rejoined the team, while Baggieland and Ransium stepped down. There's currently 15 of us in the Issues Editing team, at varying levels of activity.
- Pogaria has been promoted to Senior Issues Editor, a reflection of his great contributions over several years.
- On the subject of Issues Contests, we're considering making it a regular event - potentially annually, as it's a good way of getting new Editors on board (particularly helping with finding those who we aren't already aware of from their Got Issues involvement), and also gets us a flood of quality submissions to work on.
- Having said that, we're not averse to adding Editors at other times, and there's a discussion going on at present about offering trials to a few of the promising authors whose issues you're used to reading.
- Chains - planning continues slowly on a future Covid-themed chain, but it's only in the brainstorming stage. We don't intend to write or publish anything until the real-world pandemic situation is over. At present no other chains are at the editing stage; we're taking a break since Pogaria's MADness chain made it in last year.
- The Pool of shortlisted player-submitted issues currently has 116 issues in it (coincidentally the same as our Staff issue folder). That's much more than last year, when we were at 55 in the Pool and running short of submissions to work on - but we could still do with more.
- Several hundred new random names have been added, so keep an eye out for them. This is the first of several small improvements to issues-related bits that we're in the process of making.
- You may also spot some new newspaper headlines coming up after you've answered an issue. We've only added a few of these, but will be looking at the wider selection of headlines in the future.
- Our Issues Editors have become Image Editors for the month, as we have fun selecting and cropping potential new newspaper/banner images. These should start being used from around mid-June onwards.
- A few long-overdue Betas may make it live soon.
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