It's all over.
Feel free to talk about the weekend, what you liked most, what you hated.
And maybe gather together some memories (links, etc.) so we can archive everything.

>What was /mlp/ con?
Together we held an online convention by and for /mlp/
It focused on: 1) the show, 2) /mlp/, and 3) the fandom
Check out the website: https://mlpcon.online/

>When was it?
July 4-6, 2025

>How was the con held?
Special events in this thread or others
Live streams on YouTube, Picarto, or private streaming platforms, broadcast via CyTube
Pre-recorded videos made for the con viewed on CyTube
During the con, most activity and interaction occurred on the con thread and/or CyTube

>What now?
- Talk about your experiences to stave off PCD
- Gather together and archive memories (links, etc.)
- Keep the event thread bumped

Last thread: >>42330512

PLEASE KEEP EVERYTHING ON TOPIC, ABOUT /mlp/ con
Discord drama and bait posts are off-topic

first for more skeletonpiratepanty anonfilly

Tickle, tickle, tickle!

>>42333738 (OP)
Con recordings.
https://pony.tube/w/p/kHaxG6h1EiPs553wZT5iDy
https://pony.tube/w/p/sxfkHDqoXMSuBBwbkhWKc9
https://pony.tube/w/p/wR2wVSDjjQA1EZSoJU95qc

>me waking up tomorrow sick with 2 hours of sleep

>>42333745

>>42333755
>haber
please don't wake up
ever

>>42333764
Evil won all matches at worms, its over, Haber and hasbro won.
Speaking of are the stages somewhere?

>>42333738 (OP)
>horse land
whens the episode where anon sneaks into the horse stalls at night

>pcd setting in
>crossfade of fatigue and energy drink energy so I can't sleep but don't have energy
>too low energy to join the closing ceremonies and talk about stuff
Why did it have to end?

>>42333800
Everything has to end someday, Anon. One day /mlp/ will end. One day (You) will end. One day I will end.

I love that we can come together for these events.

Game Jam link for those stupid struggling to find it:
https://itch.io/jam/mlpcon-game-jam-anons-choice

>>42333738 (OP)
>"is" changed to "was"
The PCD hits hard

>sitting in the office with other people
>listening to the stream on headphones
>manage to keep my composure for the longest time
>that horseland girl says she always rides bareback
>(SINCE SHE WAS SIX YEARS OLD)
Oh lawd have mercy, i couldn't help but snort loudly

>>42333857
>Me when I edit a Wikipedia page the second a person dies

This was linked at some point in the chat because of some archival talk. Here's a userscript that links archived comments on made for kids youtube videos: https://u.pone.rs/DpbCXeoa.js
I can't write javascript so feel free to criticise/improve. I wanted to have it embed on the youtube page itself without having to open another page.

>>42333778
i will host maremorialcon for purp ucu

>>42333803
>One day /mlp/ will end.
Even so, the ride will never end. As long as we carry pony with us, they will live on

This was a great weekend, love ya all fags (no homo)

My favorite panels were
>schizophrenic astral projector
>schizophrenic McDonald's guy
>schizophrenic fanfictions on russian streams

I am keen for next years con. Please do not stop doing them. Had a great time this year.

>>42333803
One day our butterfies will wake up and our dreams of being humans dreaming of horses will be just pleasant memories

Sucks that I had to miss the very end.
Thanks to all the panelists and the ponies behind the scenes for making this happen. You guys are awesome and the con was something special.
Let's do it again soon.

second stream might die

this was fun time
see you next time everypony

I can't believe real numget joined closing ceremonies

vector stream mare
t. Firlin

damn bros, i did not get enough sleep and what sleep i got was plagued by dreams of pony pmvs and remixes

>>42334309
>Luna visited you in your dreams
>Showed you clips of PMVs and remixes
Kek

>>42334262
Thank you, Firlin. She's a cutie.

>>42334068
Best friends… until the end of time…

>>42334262
Cute

Thank you anons for another internet pony convention, I had quite a bit of fun! Some thoughts I've amassed:
Con felt less... energized than this year's marecon, for whatever reasons, but still nice. Maybe this is why I don't feel the post con depression as much?
Blondie seems like such a chill guy, makes me wish I had a ponyfag grandfather like him to tell me those bedtime pony stories.
Russian fanfiction truly becomes easier to follow after 1000 hours in Paint, unhinged as it is.
I'm glad our resident IGN journalist keeps hosting jams, and I keep getting impressed by how much poni love gamedevs put into their games.
Pony court was pretty innovative, hope to see it again!
I wonder if certain technical difficulties could have been prevented, but they've mostly caused fun shitposting and internet ponies to be drawn, so that's a plus.
Fallen Oak moved ponies from main website to pony.fallenoak.org around 2025-03-14, is someone from their horsie community giving them hard time about ponies again?
Overall panels were pleasant to watch and participate in, the continuous pony creativity made me swoon, I've been reassured the ride never ends. /)

>>42333754
Got everything saved on my side, except for closing maremonies and Wapa jumpscare (>>42332970) because moonbutt made me doze off during CYOA. In particular I'm glad the Russian fanfic panel got downloaded without a hitch, streamlink with all retries increased continues to be more resilient to temporary internet drops on Picarto than yt-dlp with retries. Thanks for confirming before the con that you'd be archiving it as well, really reduces the stress.

>>42334438
Anons voted for the con to be held on the 4th July weekend, hence why it felt less this year. Probably

>>42334446
I did not vote for it.

>>42334309
I had a dream where Scootaloo was taunting me and calling me a dirty foalcon

>>42334438
>Less energized
The timing cut out half of the board from participating. This is why it's important to vote.

no one bought any of my merch...

>>42334452

>>42334463
what's your merch anon, ill buy something (assuming it's not going to make me broke)

>>42334473
I-I'm not a foalcon...

>>42334309
I had a dream that I went to Equestria but I felt sick and couldn't move

>>42333738 (OP)
>Missed the Tamers panel

>>42334459
Surely there are enough US Anons to tip the vote? Otherwise we're left with the fact that they wanted the con on this weekend.

>>42334492
i blame the fact anons stick to their stinky generals and dont use the catalogue more. the vote was ages ago

>>42334438
Grandpa Blondie seems like my path given how some of my stories have been called comfy. Doesn't help that I have way too much of my hair turning outright white due to everything. Regarding the few anons that spoke up, I'm happy that a 3+ hour long story time was enjoyed. I'm all for doing it again without having to rely on a convention. Just have no clue when/where.
Since I'll be at Marefair, joked about it before but I'd still be open to just having a storytime when or wherever.

>>42334463
I wanted to buy stuff from otl_crafts but I'm stupid and couldn't figure out how the page worked so if that's you sorry

>>42334538
Wait yeah there's only a donate button on here, is that intentional?

>CYOA winning Best Panel
I feel like recency bias played too much of a hand in this
Anon Filly adventure was really fun but it wasn't better than Antithology/Wetbrain/Game Jam
If it wasn't literally the last thing every anon had done right before voting had started I feel like it wouldn't have won

>>42334486
I asked them and they haven't seen it I think, unless they watched it when everyone was sleeping

>>42334641
to be fair, it was the panel that could handle the most amount of anon participation, and i think that gave it a bit of a boost

>>42334641
Convention panels for the community, that focuses on audience participation would likely be a favourite

>>42334641
I was surprised that the russian fanfics panel wasn't more popular. It was definitely my favorite with the game jam as a close second.

There's about 6 hours left to send a logo for the 4cc, but here are the logos that will be up for polling later https://implyingrigged.info/wiki/2025_4chan_Summer_Cup_Logo_Proposals_Gallery

>>42334641
Agreed. It might be my bias speaking though because I don't care for CYOA's.

>got 3day ban from janny for “spamming” when posting emotes in the previous thread
fml I wasn’t even able to vote for anything.
Jannies need to KY and S

>>42334768
Damn you got banned for that?
I don't even get banned when I shitpost too hard. Jannies are fucking gay.

So is No Slam still happening?

>>42334459
>>42334446
That just means the board is full of NORMIES who do things like hang out with family and friends!

>>42333754
Nice, thank you. Was really bummed I had to miss a few panels I wanted to attend.

>>42334438
I am very grateful for you archiving things as well. CyTube barely holds together in the best of times. There's been 5 panels this con where I've had to edit the video back into the chat recording because the YouTube livestream got desynced (When a YT livestream gets desynced, it jumps back to the start and will randomly jump back again even after you click live again). Without having the raw streams I would not be able to fix them. And it's easy to miss the live links if you can't catch the panel live for whatever reason.

https://pony.tube/w/xgrNPLrixSxtKyiF45pnkV
I missed the hlvr stream, could I get a tl'dr on what exactly is going on here? Is it just a tech demo or a functional mod? At first I thought some of the characters were other players, pretty impressive that you can get the ai to behave like this
can I set something like that up myself? Couldn't find any guides online or mods on workshop

>/mlp/ con 2025 VOTING RESULTS

>BEST PANEL
10 Live CYOA III: Anonfilly Goes to Manehatten
8 Wetbrain: The Boozy Art Request Stream!
3 HLVRAIMLP: BEST OF
3 /mlp/ the Antithology Volume 5
2 Random Mare Appreciation
1 Russian Fanfiction overview
1 Gamejam showcase: Your choice edition!
1 Fluffy pony dating SIM
1 Amending Fences 10th Anniversary

>WORST PANEL
6 Lesson Zero: A Plot Analysis
3 Closing Maremonies
3 Fucking Around Interdimensionally
3 /mlp/ the Antithology Volume 5
2 A Mare Fair Lead Meeting
2 12 Angry Mares - PONY COURT
2 WapaMario's unofficial drunk panel on Saturday
1 Trust the process

>BEST NAMEFAG
10 Zaifer
8 PurpPone
4 Batsy
3 Corpulent Brony
1 Zippers
1 Blondie
1 ToastyMares

>WORST NAMEFAG
16 spec/izzi
6 (You)
3 Corpulent Brony
1 Quote

>BEST POST
7 Tickling Corp >>42323034
7 Drawfags
7 Magic of Antithology >>42327801
2 Cozy Glow animation posts >>42327773
2 RUN + WALK
1 (You)r post
1 Anonfilly

>WORST POST
14 AI slop complaining >>42327387
4 Every post not about ponies
3 >b&throposting
2 Listing endings from EEEE >>42333202
1 Bee costume hair with CMC as pigs >>42331278

>BEST MOMENT
4 Batsy's dentist animation in Antithology
3 McDonald's guy still liking pony
3 ENF ENF ENF ENF
3 IGN gameplay
3 YENNEF YENNEF YENNEF
2 Zaifer being outsmarted in math by a fluffy
2 Britbongs fucking over worms panel
2 Being around all of (You) again
2 Alternate Kennesaw not being able to stay on topic during the interview
1 Marecurial Sonority in general
1 Seducing Coco

>WORST MOMENT
7 Stream lags
7 Derpy Doodles not being able to fix Internet
3 Religious sperging
3 Spec/izzi posting about AI shit
2 Buffering because of britbong Internet
2 Any time spec/izzi spoke

>BEST NEW EMOTE
12 :numdance:
10 :lyramad:
5 :s2e26.unnamed.unicorn.mare.#12:

>/mlp/ con 2024 VOTING CUSTOM CATEGORIES RESULTS

>PUTTING TOGETHER ANOTHER ONE
No votes

>BEST ART PROMPT
1 Teenage amputee deepthroat lactation

>BIGGEST BALLS
1 Everyone in Wetbrain

>GETTING TICKLED TILL HE CUMS
1 Corp
1 Zippers

>BEST FRENS AND HAVING A GOOD FRIENDLY MATCH THIS WEEKEND
No votes

>BIGGEST KEK
No votes

>BEST PONY
2 Coco
1 Twilight Sparkle
1 Applejack
1 Trixie
1 Celestia

>TOO FUCKING TALENTED FUCK OFF
No votes

>WORST VTUBER IN THE ENTIRE CONVENTION AND FRIEND OF KEN ASHCORP
1 Craig Phillips

>WORST COUNTRY
2 Britain

>>42335062
All I will tell you anon, is that Friendship is Magic.

>>42335076
always was, sorry for wanting to be spoonfed but I can't find anything online

>>42335087
If you seek the answer, ponder on those words for a while, anon!

>>42335068
>/mlp/ con 2024
¿que?

>>42335115
It takes a long time to tabulate results when Twilight has to check and recheck and rerecheck every vote.

>>42334719
>>42333985
Glad you liked my panel (russian fanfiction)! I didn't expect such a positive reaction, feels nice to know so many anons had a lot of fun watching me stumbling through those horse stories. I had 6 more fanfics prepared and a lot of other crazy fanfiction related stuff to show you, but i didn't have the time for all that. Maybe i'll do a second part next year!

>>42333754
I can't see Closing Maremonies here. Does anyone have a recording of that?

>>42335092
well I ponedered and then I ponedered some and I figured out there's no way I can set that up myself without any coding knowledge or the ai models so I'll just enjoy the stream vods

>>42335178
Who's gonna tell him?

>>42335178
its your retarded

>>42335157
It usually takes from a couple days to a week for all panels to be uploaded with chat

>>42335188
>>42335196
guys don't be like that, think what Twilight would do in your situation

no one tell him, it's funnier that way

>>42335115
oops, it should read 2025 ^:)

>>42335271

>>42335152
It was an absolute blast!
It's very interesting and exciting to get a glimpse into a section of the fandom that one never gets to see otherwise. And one could tell that the fanfics that you presented were probably of a very similar level of thought-out, engaging and/or serious as the ones we have in english.
But the high pace of your summaries, which some times made you just casually and out of context mention some of the bold and crazy plot points in the fics, coupled with the 10/10 visualizations, made the entire panel a constant barrage of hilarious, shocking and intensely entertaining content.
One of the best panels of the con, no question. I hope to see a continuation, especially to make sure that none of your fic visualization pictures go to waste!

>another year where i can't watch the russian panel because it keeps getting laggy for me, becoming unwatchable

>>42335157
It's probably still processing.

Hi anons!
Are you as good as an IGN Game Reviewer at playing EEEEE!?
Never fear, with this handy EEEEE! guide you will surely be able to dazzle everyone with your mad EEEEE! skillz.
Check it out at: https://eeeee.apanx.net/
Obviously this has massive spoilers for EEEEE!
Dedicated to the anons finding a spoilered post listing all EEEEE! endings the worst /mlp/con-post ^:).

>>42335475
Speaking of EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, apparently your itch page got pwned somehow.

>>42335468
Oh no, The Kirin is going to explode!
Quick, give The Kirin root access to your idling servers so The Kirin can run ffmpeg there and transcode faster! actually peertube has some support for remote transcoding
>>42335499
anon, kurwa...

me and wapa stole the cytube to draw

>>42335475
>making a manual for your game
Anon, IGN's staff won't understand why this exists, they've never seen this kind of stuff in their lives. It looks comfy though.
inb4 next jam has game in DVD case mailed to hostanon, with cover and booklet and so on
>>42335246
Okay anon, since you've appealed to the element of nerdiness and this is so cool idea that I think you deserve to know how it works:
Last chance to remain unaware.
It's pretty much a scripted play, in the theater sense. Anon hosting the panel runs Garry's Mod with VR mod and connects to a server where a lot of anons play roles of characters he meets during a tour of the map. AI is used only? for generating voices for the panel beforehand, and the anons playing NPC roles have keybinds for them or whatever. That's what I meant by Friendship is Magic - anons assembling together in quite large quantities to create a very fun experience. You can see them in "credits" of at least the 2024 marecon panel. Don't worry, it's pretty well done, I had doubts that maybe NPCs were actual AI due to e.g. lag in reactions which could've been explained by "running AI on the same PC", and the PC of hostanon coincidentally tends to have low framerate during majority of panels so far. I think after one of panels some anon explained that the map they had glued from four L4D2 maps or so was juuust at the boundary of what GMod can handle.
If you wanted to believe this was "real AI", I wouldn't blame you. Again, amazes me what anons can do together for ponies. Excellent job, magical even.

Technically the panel's idea was executed earlier in the form of HLVRAI, which you could've found online if you had a hunch to delete "MLP" suffix, but I'm still impressed by how cool of an idea this is with ponies. Anons truly are creative fucks.

>>42333754
It appears audio is missing from the latter half of Machinima Making 3

>>42335585
> of at least the 2024 marecon panel
well, 2024 /mlp/con panel. Holy shit has it been a year already, I remember anon marrying Rose like it was in an indeterminate point of past.
>>42335600
>archiveanon muting the drunks

>>42334486
https://pony.tube/w/d7zKtUGrEwgU6avBoEDwx6
>5:19:01

>>42335600
Looks like audio for the panel broke after the Picarto stream did. Unless there's a VOD with audio floating around of it, there's unfortunately nothing I can do. Unless the other archive Anon managed to get it. >>42334438

>>42334892
2nding and when?

>>42334892
>>42335810
Craig said Tuesday at 8pm EDT

>>42335832
Holy kek

>>42335832
beautiful

>>42335633
Stinky

>>42335682
That bee is gonna pollinate a flower

>>42335832
Ticklewhore.

Drew piratefilly a while back. This year's CYOA was fun

>>42336030
a fine addition to my collection, thank you for the art anon

'Fucking Around Interdimensionally' was an Amazing panel. Even though I don't necessarily agree with absolutely everything the presenter had to say, just the level of comprehension that man has for his subject is truly astonishing.

>>42336230
I couldn't really keep up with it since I missed the beginning, but I do find the idea of someone becoming some kind of ascended being who gets pursued by interdimensional creatures because he fucked his pony wife very amusing.

>>42335585
thanks Twilly, I later saw one of the ponies move their mouse up and down really fast so that gave it away, I just really wanted to believe that this was something a singular person can set up and fuck around with
as for hlvrai it was the only thing that popped up when googling stuff but I thought it looked gay so I never clicked on it

>>42333754
If any anons see any issues with the panel recordings, let me know and I will attempt to fix it if I can. This con has been especially bad with YouTube livestreams. So far I've had to edit the video back into the following panels:
>Fucking Around Interdimensionally
>The Antithology
>Second Half of Derpy Doodles
>Traditional Art Draw Panel
>Worms Armageddon Part 1
>Live CYOA III
>Blondie's Panels
>Watercolor Mares Parts 1 & 2

Draws done post-con. Even did a style emulation, this time attempting AnonTheAnon's style with a ponk who ate the whole box of cupcakes.

Reminder that pony tube has a hard drive fund.

>>42336280
Worms recording (without chat) won't load last two minutes or so. It keeps buffering indefinitely

>>42335808
Now draw her getting the 20 dollars

>>42336382
>that Ponk
Great work, kek, I couldn't tell he didn't draw it.

>>42336646
Thanks anon
Reminder that my next major project is fixing the pony tube space issue
Shit is a time bomb waiting to go off, just not sure I'm going to be able to afford the necessary increased cost

>>42337001
You could always replace all transcodes with lower bitrate AV1, poorfags be damned. Even phones can decode it now, and it's the best quality:size ratio codec out there.

>>42337001
How much do you think it will cost? Do you colocate or rent a server?

>>42337057
Right now I rent a server (baremetal)
Price is about $200 or so a month
The question is how to proceed, whether to try and find a new baremetal server with more space (not easy to find actually) or move everything to maybe object storage
Either way will be a cost increase, only question is how much

Oh, and it's looking more and more likely I'll need to buy a new car soon, so stacking that monthly payment on top of pony.tube isn't going to help

>>42337088
Just buy a used car and pay for it all upfront. It should be easy. Sub-$10k. Shrimple.

What is the Slam Jam thats going to be on at 8 PM EDT? Deciding whether to wake up in the middle of the night to watch it.

>>42335715
I've got what seems to be whole stream (08:01:24) with audio seemingly fine, as I haven't noticed any gaps after seeking randomly around the file. I'll upload this to PonyTube for the panels playlist and reply with the link.
If you prefer I can also temporarily host the file I've got somewhere else, so that your edited video gets less reencoded stream, but I'm not sure if that really matters for this use case.
>>42337001
I do not want to offer anything for now, but I've got a home server with let's say 20TB of free poni space on residential 1/1 Gbps (max...) ISP, unfortunately yuro so there's ~ 110 ms of latency on pings at least. For this reason I don't think I would want to offer it as primary storage, if anything maybe it could work as some tiered object storage for lesser viewed videos, or just a place for backups. In fact, once every sometimes I think about spinning up my own PeerTube instance for what they call in docs "Platforms redundancy" and connect this to PonyTube, mostly for fun, but this doesn't help in your current case of running out of primary storage space.
I haven't thought much about this, e.g. legal/DDoS/other ways some Babs Seed could cause me issues are a notable concern, but since this storage issue crops up on your side, I felt it's time to at least chime in. I've paid for this hardware upfront, I pay for electricity and ISP monthly anyway, in theory this could bring me near zero additional costs and ops time. I wouldn't want to create a SPoF for PonyTube though.

>>42337310
a vtuber will be playing megaman

>>42337325
Ken Ashcorp will be playing Megaman?

>>42335715
GMod panel: https://pony.tube/w/iyXFf3dQ58UKumeQ7Pnhag
I've also uploaded raw of Russian fanfic panel, since you didn't have it in playlist yet: https://pony.tube/w/v25LNQTXQgL4cG9mr3Y2rp If you had it uploaded already and it's just pending transcoding, let me know so I can delete my duplicate upload.
Anyway, if there is something else I should upload, tell me.

>>42337385
yeah and he will be doing a live performance of 20% cooler

Purp has risen from the dead!

>>42337391
You’re telling me there was a gmod panel on this con? wtf?
It wasn’t on the schedule so what channel was it in?

>>42337492

>>42337506
>Element status: Inspected

>>42337451
aw hell yea

>>42337391
The PonyTube uploads are great. Also, what are you using to directly capture m3u8 livestreams? I had tried using yt-dlp but it didn't want to cooperate.

>>42337391
Yeah, the fanfic panel is pending transcoding
https://pony.tube/w/p/kHaxG6h1EiPs553wZT5iDy?playlistPosition=25

>>42337080
I don't have much experience in dealing with data centers, but would colocation be cheaper? Obviously there's more of an upfront cost to put something together. But you can stick like 4 drives in a 1u.

>>42337517
This con I had these bash functions/well effectively aliases, with options haphazardly pieced together last year I think:
function m3s() {
streamlink $1 best -o streamlink-$(date -Is).ts --hls-segment-queue-threshold 0 --stream-timeout 10000 --stream-segment-timeout 10000
}
function m3y() {
yt-dlp --write-info-json --retries 1000 --fragment-retries 1000 --file-access-retries 1000 --keep-fragments $1
}
and I ran them with link copied by hoof from CyTube playlist, or browser devtools for AngelThump. I run both simultaneously in separate directories since I don't trust yt-dlp to keep going when stream hangs for whatever reason, on the other hoof that issue occurs usually with YT streams, but those can be downloaded as VODs afterwards so it's fine.
Honestly, this should've been automated years ago but you can guess that I'm lazy and scared of unexpected edge cases happening during con.
>>42337525
That one's with chat, I meant lack of relevant raw stream in "panels" playlist.
>>42337539
This is worth looking into as well.

Board's moving fast this hour.

>>42338133
some faggot loves to post 5+ low effort slide threads

>>42337310
Craig will beat megapony with his hands on a board of nails to avoid rage slamming.

>>42338513
No, that is a cute get-up!

>>42338513
If it's so silly, why's she blushing!

NO SLAM JAM IS LIV

slam jam megapony on strem now

>>42336230
Happy you enjoyed the panel! Appreciate the feedback alot from everyone :o) this was nice, I'm very glad to have made a few anons pleased.
I'll put even more effort in if I wind up doing another panel again.

>>42338513
She twinkles! She shines!

>>42336788
I see what you mean. I'll try reuploading it (I'll delete the old once the new is up). The last minutes seem to play fine on my local copy.

>>42336788
>>42338994
Looks like it worked properly in the reup:
https://pony.tube/w/p/wR2wVSDjjQA1EZSoJU95qc

How long did the megaman stream end up going for?

>>42339079
I don't see reup yet, but thank you for your work! Also, chat version works fine.

>>42339511
Accidentally linked the playlist instead of the video in the last post:
https://pony.tube/w/9uweWsAjscirerfw1FjEBJ

>8

We're still tied for first on the final day of the afterparty! :numbeam:

>>42340042
Americandadbros...

I see Turnabout Storm got queued.

>>42340489
NOTED

/mlp/ con 2025 officially had attendance of 3,888 unique IP addresses
This is a huge increase over the 1,640 unique IP addresses from /mlp/ con 2024

this seems high to me...

>>42340667
Sorry I was ping spoofing.

>>42340667
>3,888
all me

>>42340667
I'm sorry, I joined with my phone once when I went to the bathroom. Make that 3,887 please

>>42340667
Sorry, I been on the move, they can't catch me or my waif as we preach Celestianism to the masses. Remove 100 IPs or so please.

TURNABOUT STORM IS COMING ON

>>42340671
To prevent such outrageous abuse we need to make it a requirement for all congoers to have 4chan Pass™ or at least make sure that they went through retinal authentication process approved by Janny Committee. This will secure the future of the convention and prevent possible manipulations in critical fields such as vote count for BEST NEW EMOTE or con dates.
Captcha 8KKKY

>>42340750
Thanks, now we're losing to Zippers' old home.

>>42340667
Most peak was 250+, during the anti

>Less than four hours until the playlist is closed.
:cry:

>>42340667
Sorry my israeli botfarm caught a link and connected all at the same time make that -3887 please

Been stewing on this over the past couple of days, but I've been trying to think of why this year's /mlp/con didn't quite feel as magical as years' past. It's not due to any one person or something obviously, but I wonder if people have similar thoughts.

I think part of the whole appeal of the con (besides poni) is it being a 4chan con, where you have panels that could only be on the board, whether big and fantastical or absolute shitshows or sometimes both. However, there seemed to be a lack of zany, off-the-wall, or simply outside-the-box panels like there used to be.
>Tulpa Panel, SermonAnon, Xx_SuperPonysplosionHidingInsideOfOurHousesSu33MyBigBlackNiggaDick_xX
>/mlk/ - My Little Firearms, , Plushfags Show & Tail, first Antithology
>vul's music production mega panel, XCCHI BLASTS MARE MUSIC, Sucking Dick for Charity
>Council of the Round Bale, numget birthday party, HLVRAIMLP
>Waifu Keyboards, Analyzing Cringe: The "I'm on a Yacht" Music Video, Dinner With Anon
I didn't even mention the interview shitstorms and draw panels that are usually a riot as well, but even panels like Painting with Lyric and the Game Jams/Slam Jams seem uniquely board-centric. There were some standout panels this year as well, but perhaps people settling into a rut of making panels that could be at any other convention could be one of the reasons.

Additionally, it seems that Purp has become the board's resident funnyman, and rather than anons making their own panels/art/etc, everyone's just waiting to see what Purp comes up with. Peoples' reliance on him to do everything (create panels, recruit artists, coordinate things, etc etc) could disincentivize anons from doing things themselves and encourage complacency. Now this is not to say anything against him either, I'm glad he exists and is such a driving force behind things, but the whole production can't be all him either (not to mention I can't imagine the stress he'd be under to deliver, the con's supposed to be a fun thing to contribute to believe it or not).

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>>42341785
There seemed to be a lack of art and I guess you could call them "niceties" as well. There seemed to be only a single new pic created for /mlp/con this year (pic related), and it was used for the OP of the End of Day 1 thread.
Meanwhile, it feels like Marecon, even though it's considered the "lesser" of the two cons, really set the bar this year for what an online con could be. Between the abundance of art and backgrounds (algo's song is a bit of the con identity at this point, although /mlp/con's used it too) and the marepoints system engaging chat, anons, and artists, it seems like there was always something at the con to do or look forward to engaging with, instead of kind of just sitting in chat. Does anyone remember that /mlp/con 2022 had an opening animation and everything? Even /mlp/con 2023 had a neat 3d graphic spinning loop to open a lot of the panels.

And of course, having the con on 4th of July weekend meant many US-based anons were spending with their families and thus absent, not really helping attendance either.

Now there's a ton of stuff that I thought was still great this year: the bumper ads were great as always, firlin messing with the channel css was fun, there was the antithology and russian fiction panel and CYOA III and everything, and perhaps I'm discounting things that can only happen organically, like the absolutely abysmal way the Shawn Keller interviews were handled or getting streams cut off cuz the police got alerted to a fire you started under a bridge.
I also wasn't able to attend all the panels this year so my view may not be 100% objective, but it really felt like there wasn't as much high energy this year as there has been in previous years. Even the aftercon party has been pretty lackluster.

So then why are things the way they were this year? Are anons not putting enough effort into panels? Not enough jank, chaos, etc? Are artists who would regularly help out just burned out/feeling they need to focus their attention on Mare Fair? Is prepping for the Summer Cup putting additional strain on people? Are people just being lazy and hoping somebody else will step up? Are anons just plain burnt out on cons?
And is there something we can do about it for next year? Advocating for people to create more promotional stuff? Providing ideas for panels? Letting anons know they can do stuff like suggest emotes, panelists change the chat background/font, etc? Could rebirthing the minecraft or god forbid ponytown servers help? Or CELESTIA FORBID a second life hangout sim? I dunno I'm just spitballing here.

TL;DR con was kind of underwhelming this year, and the lack of unique panels, potentially complacent anons, dearth of art and promotional material, and dates of it all possibly being reasons why. is this true and why did it happen? what could be done to help things for next year?

also where tf is the end of con survey corp get on this

>>42341788
>Meanwhile, it feels like Marecon, even though it's considered the "lesser" of the two cons, really set the bar this year for what an online con could be.
To be clear, one of the big differences between /mlp/ con and marecon is that /mlp/ con is organized 100% on the board.
Purp does a lot of work with others behind the scenes for marecon, he contacts artists asking for art, works with devs off board to put together tools and things like the point system, etc.
/mlp/ con is what the anons in the thread are willing to put into the event, and in recent years most effort is being put into panels (I disagree that the panels this year were lackluster, there were some really great panels)
Corp just organizes everything, he doesn't reach out to artists behind the scenes and usually doesn't even reach out to devs (this year he did reach out for the new website and the anonbot 4chan embed script)
Nobody in any threads this year made suggestions about, for example, running a similar point system, and no devs stepped up to do so
Nobody volunteered to organize anything more than just panels
Correct me if I'm wrong or I missed something

I do agree that the magic that surrounded /mlp/ con seems to have dissipated a bit
do we make /mlp/ con more like marecon? have a /mlp/ con headquarters where a group of anons try to run things?
work off board to try and put the con together with a loose team of artists, developers, and others?
how do we encourage anons to do more organizing on board?

honestly it feels like most anons are over /mlp/ con, but I'm always surprised how each year the pre-con survey shows a huge percentage of people wanting to continue the con

>post-con survey
we didn't have one last year either, but I can put one up again this year. give me a little bit

/mlp/ con post mortem survey:

>>https://forms.gle/8YRC76JYSggtzWJP7
>>https://forms.gle/8YRC76JYSggtzWJP7
>>https://forms.gle/8YRC76JYSggtzWJP7

>>42341849
I kind of wanted to do more for /mlp/con as is usually the case most years, just hard to find time any more. I ended up making my thing in a couple of hours the day before the con. I ain't much but it was a little something.

>>42341858
Done.

>>42341858
Since I forgot to mention it in the form, maybe see if there's anything that can be done to make YouTube livestreams stay in sync better. I don't know if much can be done. But if there's any hiccup in the stream or you need to adjust the player at all during the livestream the stream will generally refuse to stay live and randomly reset to the beginning of the stream.

>>42341785
>>42341788
Personally I attribute this decline to Mare Fair, there's only so many creative anons around, and given the choice between the online and the IRL con everyone will choose the IRL one, so all the focus and creativity are siphoned there instead of being used on /mlp/con

>>42341867
i know and share that feeling so much

>>42341875
i know this feeling as well, it happened to me multiple times

>>42341858
Forgot to put in my survey, but perhaps don't let anons make the final decision on the con dates. Putting it in the 4th July weekend was a bad move. They can vote, but you'd choose when

>>42341971
I can kind of agree.

>>42338513
CUTE

>>42341971
This, I missed a lot because of the timing. The same seems to be true of many others. It's never a good idea to have an online con overlap with a major holiday or another con.

Unofficial addendum to the survey by someone unrelated to the con runner:
VENDORS
>Cheyenne
What the fuck were you even thinking?
>OTL
Why did you think it a good idea to shit on your buyers at closing maremonies?
>Others
Was vending at /mlp/con successful/worth it?

>the numget sound is from G! escape from midnight castle

>Playlist locked in cytube 1
See you space pony!

>>42342137
>cheyenne
probably couldn't get things together in time, chill out pal

>>42342339
I will NOT chill!

>>42341867
This. I had a potentially fun idea to play a game with some pony sprites modded in and take suggestions from chat. Just never got around to making the sprites. I had a couple other ideas for panels, but they'd require a lot more effort on my part.
>>42341785
Perhaps it could be that after being exposed to the grandeur of Mare Fair, in combination with this being the fifth or sixth board con, our humble little event doesn't seem as special anymore. The novelty has worn off a little. Of course, I'm sure people will miss it if it goes, like all things people take for granted. You have to also consider people are getting older. University students who may have hosted panels back in the early cons might be too busy with their careers or even families now.

>what could be done to help things for next year?
The best thing to do would be to spend more time preparing panels and making trailers/advertisements for panels. Conceptually simple, but it does take effort. Magic can happen in a panel that's done on the spot, but it can also be done in a panel that's planned out. People should be encouraged to make silly little trailers for their panels to build hype. Even if it's a simple shitpost video, that still takes some effort and will build some interest (they could also easily be linked in the spreadsheet).

People just need to know that a dumb idea with effort behind it is likely going to be a ton of fun.

Really should be getting to bed considering I haven't slept for shit all week, buuuuuuuut
>>42341788
>minecraft
We'd need a new team to either build a new map or take the 2021 version (or whatever version the Hidden Temple was in and still worked during) and update/expand it to be cooler, and a lot of hoping people will engage with it. It ended because everyone lost interest.
>art
There was also this, and an MGS themed one with Antithology text, but the mascots are hardly used at all, let alone any art of them. I can only remember 2021 when the guy who used to run /mppp/ got some chinese artists to draw a bunch of stuff being a time when there was a lot of con-specific art. It doesn't help that none of the panels or even things run by the con organizer really recognize that contard and conpone exist. Even anonfilly barely gets a role.
Maybe it does need that offboard organization or the organizer/anons invading generals and illuminati discord servers to try and get some art type participation and such going on.

I do think things are getting spread a bit too thin anymore. IRL cons are back (even if only one is worth attending ^:) ), we now have two online board conventions and the anniversary, and of course a lot of the big creative types, artists and animators, they're wrapped up making things for mare fair.

>>42341849
>/mlp/ con is organized 100% on the board
Success and progress of the con would depend on activity on the board

>>42341858
This is a crazy idea, but add a 3rd cytube channel, only accessible for the panelists to test out their connection an hour or so before entering the main channels

>>42342137
>Shit on your buyers
Huh? All I said was that it didn't seem like people were too interested in OC stuff. That's all I was able to offer at /mlp/con. It's not a guarantee either, because LEGO doesn't have every brick in every color available.

>>42341971
not his fault retards voted for the 4th, where were all of you back when we were voting

FYI those randomized vendors on homepage seem to have wrong links sometimes, e.g. pic rel pardon phonefagging.

>>42342730
When asked about vending on live stream, you said, and I quote: "It sucked".

Mares!

It's ending

/mlp/con 2025 IS NOW... over

No more mares...
Only memories...
Slowly fading...
Meshing with older ones...
Unrecognisable from other /mlp/cons...
Undistinguishable from other online cons...
The times we shitposted together...
When we spammed the chat...
Will you remember me?
The Anon who called you a faggot?
I'll remember you.
Yes, (You).
Faggot.
Do you know you're all my very best :France:

/)

>>42343967
/)

/mlp/con? never heard of it.

PUT IT BACK ON! I DON'T WANT IT TO END!! I DON'T WANT IT TO BE OVER!!!

>>42344054
Derpy making love to that door.

>>42343083
It sucked BECAUSE I wasn't able to offer more than LEGO OCs. I didn't mean it sucked because of anyone.

So, what do I do now?

>>42344747
Start preparing panels for next year.

fuck shit I just got home and it's all ogre.

>>42344924
ucu

>>42344747
Already drawing the art for next year's con 2206

>>42344747
Wait patiently for the anni stream

>>42345445
Might be a bit early for that one anon

>>42344821
Yeah but I still feel a bit empty without the con, I listen to pony music but it's not quite the same alone

>>42342454
As much as I hate to say this, I think the con mascots are either bland or unappealing. Like the long horn is a funny joke, but the character isn't really fun to look at as anything other than a joke.

>>42345457
are we there yet?

>>42346277
design some new mascots!!!

>>42346277
>He wasn't here to see how it all started

>>42346653
I was. The point still stands. It's a funny mascot, but objectively not an appealing one. You're allowed to like it of course, but it makes sense why people don't have much interest in drawing it.

>>42346760
Make it appealing, STUPID. Fuck, people will try to make an abomination like Twist look attractive, but a homegrown OC? Nah that's too much effort, I'll just ignore the-WOW LOOK AT THE OCS PURP MADE FOR THE WINTER CON AFTER RESCUING IT FROM THE GUY WHO STOLE SOMEONE ELSE'S IDEA THEN NEVER ACTUALLY SHOWED UP TO HIS OWN CREATION

>>42346932
Am I the only one who finds the marecon OCs kinda boring?
They just popped out of nowhere whereas the /mlp/ con OCs were designed by anons on the board and they feel more soulful and less corporate

>>42347020
I loved the marecon OCs

>>42334262
Do you plan to upload Cytube replay for this con? I want to count all three unique anons attending my panel and jerk off at how popular I am

>>42347020
marecon mascots > /mlp/con mascots
honestly what are some traits for /mlp/con mascots that would be an improvement over the originals? they really dont have personality outside of anonfilly

>>42347142
:lul: cytube emotes during your panel feel like heroin

>>42347020
I feel the same way. The marecon mascots are fine, but they don't really have as much uniqueness. Contard came about more naturally on the board.

>>42347142
I think all panels have already been uploaded with the chat
>>42333754
If something is still being transcoded and you don't want to wait you can download the recording (there's a button under every video) and it works.

>>42347273
>all panels with chat
That's cool and I've already watched all panels that I missed live. Many thanks for that! But I was talking about json/zip thingy with Cytube events that Firlin usually makes for Rewatch

>>42347020
I like Nawni, she's a nice pone

>>42347272
I FUCKING LOVE CONTARD.
She's on my list of ponies to make a plushie of after Mare Fair.

>>42347142
CyTube Replay day 1:
https://firlin123.github.io/cytube-replay/load?zip=https://rp.oc4.pp.ua/0_PublicData/Replays/mlp-con/2025.07.04.zip
Most livestreams would be broken.

Cytube chat cloud generator: https://mare.pages.dev/CyChatCloud/
Replays archive: https://mare.pages.dev/
Capture userscript (v1.2.4): https://firlin123.github.io/cytube-replay/assets/replay-capture.user.js

>>42347142
CyTube Replay day 2:
https://firlin123.github.io/cytube-replay/load?zip=https://rp.oc4.pp.ua/0_PublicData/Replays/mlp-con/2025.07.05.zip
Most livestreams would be broken.

Cytube chat cloud generator: https://mare.pages.dev/CyChatCloud/
Replays archive: https://mare.pages.dev/
Capture userscript (v1.2.4): https://firlin123.github.io/cytube-replay/assets/replay-capture.user.js

>>42347142
CyTube Replay day 3:
https://firlin123.github.io/cytube-replay/load?zip=https://rp.oc4.pp.ua/0_PublicData/Replays/mlp-con/2025.07.06.zip
Most livestreams would be broken.

Cytube chat cloud generator: https://mare.pages.dev/CyChatCloud/
Replays archive: https://mare.pages.dev/
Capture userscript (v1.2.4): https://firlin123.github.io/cytube-replay/assets/replay-capture.user.js

>>42348275
>piss
cyoa chads keep winning

>>42348275
Seeing :chad: as the top emote for cy2ube makes me feel quite good. I'm thinking about what to do next con— if I should find and interview another golden era cringefriend/fag, or something different. I'm keen to host another panel though. Next time it'll be live.

>>42348275
did you get all the videos until the channel was closed?

>>42348762
Yes, here's recording after day 3:
https://firlin123.github.io/cytube-replay/load?json=https://files.catbox.moe/0yzwpn.json

>>42348853
Love you and your spam nonny (full snowpity)

Seeing Marecon and Marefair, it would be interesting if /mlp/con's mare mascots had some backstory to them

>>42349146
Do it!
Nothing's stopping you
They're our mascots, so we can give them whatever backstory we want

>>42349200
Tell me about Contard! Why does she wear the horn!?

>>42349335
It's vestigial

Quick concert notes for next year, since I have adventures in Cyrodiil to get back to.
TODO:
>preview visualizer in a dark room to make sure nothing generates migraines
>probably skip the "make this bit bounce to the volume of the audio" because it takes forever to do anyway
>have enough time before go-live to do a final check so it's not off-sync and the "crying applejack as she says 'if mom and dad were still here'" bit is actually running properly
>{secret things}

>>42350005
>I have adventures in Cyrodiil to get back to.
Have you heard any word about the other provinces?

>>42350411

>>42349200
My headcanon's been
>Contard: Goofy, energetic unicorn mare, but a little dumb. Kept consuming growth pills for her horn, thinking that a longer horn would mean having stronger magic.. until Conpone told her that's not how it works. It's irreversible, but the other ponies came to accept it. You might think she hates it, but that horn is unique and makes her special, so she insists on keeping it that way. She can control where/how to bend her horn, so speaking in meta terms, any art of her horn is acceptable. Friends with Conpone.

>Conpone: Fiery-spirited, level headed earth pony. Liked going to cons since she was a filly, and got her con cutie mark quick. She liked cons so much, some questioned if "Conpone" is her real name, or she changed it to that. She's a responsible con goer, and adheres to con etiquette. Spends her money wisely, bathes before going to cons, and still knows how to enjoy it to the fullest. Friends with Contard.

>Anonfilly: Anonfilly. Is just there having fun. Friends with everypony.

>>42350962
I like it
Except contard's horn is vestigial

>>42350478
He's literally me