DisCon III - Revision history

John Bray at 19:52, 13 January 2022

2022-01-13T19:52:10Z

John Bray at 09:17, 25 December 2021

2021-12-25T09:17:38Z

John Bray: Created page with "2021 Worldcon, the first big hybrid convention held in Washington, DC, and cursed. See {{fancyclopedia|DisCon III}} They used Discord for text chat, Zoom for vide..."

2021-12-25T09:17:21Z

Created page with "2021 Worldcon, the first big hybrid convention held in Washington, DC, and cursed. See {{fancyclopedia|DisCon III}} They used Discord for text chat, Zoom for vide..."

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2021 Worldcon, the first big [[hybrid convention]] held in Washington, DC, and cursed. See {{fancyclopedia|DisCon III}}

They used [[Discord]] for text chat, [[Zoom]] for video chat, [[WordPress]] for the website, [[Vimeo]] for video streaming. [[Zambia]] for programme planning. They were very active in manual [[closed captions|closed captioning]].

The website lacked good instructions on accessing the virtual systems, was updated rarely, and often struggled under load, as it had to handle the programme schedule from [[KonOpas]] and wrap the [[Vimeo]] video. Hybrid items struggled with hotel room tech failures and dropouts, and questions raised by real and virtual audiences got muddled. Real world features like the [[Art Show]] and [[Dealers' Room]] weren't visible to virtual attendees. There was very little interaction between real and virtual attendees generally, with only one video tour of the hotel streamed early in the morning.

The text chat was well provided with volunteers, the Virtual Rangers in the unpopular [[Consuite]] were very underused. [[FAQs]] were rarely used, and lots of obvious decisions had either not been made or poorly propagated. Very few virtual parties were held, though professional bartenders were hired to offer cocktail suggestions based on attendee's drinks cabinets.

The virtual [[Dealers' Room]] was just a web page with paragraphs on each vendor.

There were 2 scandals with the virtual [[voting]] for site selection. Kevin Standlee released the online voting numbers early showing a Chengdu lead in an attempt to encourage counter on-site voting, and an advisory motion that would have invalidated most of the Chengdu votes was passed before the election closed. There was no way for virtual attendees to influence the WSFS Business Meeting, which put a foreign bid at a severe disadvantage.

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 The website lacked good instructions on accessing the virtual systems, was updated rarely, and often struggled under load, as it had to handle the programme schedule from [[KonOpas]] and wrap the [[Vimeo]] video. Hybrid items struggled with hotel room tech failures and dropouts, and questions raised by real and virtual audiences got muddled. Real world features like the [[Art Show]] and [[Dealers' Room]] weren't visible to virtual attendees. There was very little interaction between real and virtual attendees generally, with only one video tour of the hotel streamed early in the morning.
-The text chat was well provided with volunteers, the Virtual Rangers in the unpopular [[Consuite]] were very underused. [[FAQs]] were rarely used, and lots of obvious decisions had either not been made or poorly propagated. Very few virtual parties were held, though professional bartenders were hired to offer cocktail suggestions based on attendee's drinks cabinets.
+The text chat was well provided with volunteers, the Virtual Rangers in the unpopular [[Consuite]] were very underused. FAQs were rarely used, and lots of obvious decisions had either not been made or poorly propagated. Very few virtual parties were held, though professional bartenders were hired to offer cocktail suggestions based on attendee's drinks cabinets.
 The virtual [[Dealers' Room]] was just a web page with paragraphs on each vendor.