>>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

Day 1 is almost over, how's everypony doing?
You still alive? Enjoying the panels?

>What is /mlp/ con?
Together we're holding an online convention by and for /mlp/
It focuses on: 1) the show, 2) /mlp/, and 3) the fandom
Check out the website: https://mlpcon.online/

>When is it?
RIGHT NOW until July 6.

>How is the con being 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 will occur on the con thread and/or CyTube

>What now?
- Check out the schedule at https://mlpcon.online/schedule
- Check out the vendors at https://mlpcon.online/vendors
- Keep the event thread bumped
- Create short funny videos that could be shown during downtime
- Be a CyTube janny who does it >for free

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