2018: Swap! in the Name of Yuletide || SIGN-UPS ARE OPEN.

[kindness_says]

If you are new to swaps, or to Yuletide, and curious: FAQ here. If you are old to swaps, read on!


YULESWAPS 2018 SCHEDULE:

+ Sign-up forms are open now and will close on Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 9:00 PM PDT. Click here for a countdown, as always! Tell your friends! Tell your enemies! Tell yourself to set a reminder on your phone!

+ Match-ups will go out in late October, personal life and technology permitting. Probably over a 2- or 3-day period, because of mail merge sending limits.

+ This year's SENDING DEADLINE (for now) is Monday, November 12, 2018. Before signing up, please do a reality/calendar check to make sure you will have the money and time!


REMINDERS, ALWAYS REMINDERS:

+ Swaps Central: our all-in-one check-in form! You remember it. Still a thing.

+ Email: if you are new, we strongly suggest emailing us at yuleswaps at gmail dot com, just so your email will know we're not spam when we send match-ups.

+ DW/LJ: we will post here after match-ups go out, so everyone knows they definitely did. Please see the FAQ for instructions on how to track the various yuleswaps tags!

+ Sign-ups: PLEASE read instructions carefully, and take particular care not to typo your AO3 name or email! There's always someone whose poor sender is like, "gmail.co????" #yes really

+ Defaulting: look. If anything untoward (money, anxiety, life) should happen to you AT ANY POINT in the swapping process, please don’t just disappear. Tell us, and we’ll work it out! Promise. We are very nice.


And now...
Swap! in the Name of…
CANDY || BOOKS || DRINKS

Questions? Comments? First check out the FAQ, and then, if that doesn’t sort you, feel free to comment either here or there, or email us at yuleswaps at gmail!

(Us = me and anialove, who has very kindly agreed to help again.)

Comments

[liz_mo]

YAY! All three sign-ups done! I wish I could code, so we could do a proper website and I didn't have to fill in the same information three times every year.

That said, THANK YOU SO MUCH for all your hard work each year. This is my favourite Yuletide part!

[kindness_says]

Yeah, I know, I saw in my notes that you said that last year, and I've also thought about it before, but... I think with the current Google Forms/Sheets setup, it would be a situation where it'd just make one giant spreadsheet, which I would then have to manually break out into three separate sheets. Which isn't a prospect that like...thrills me, haha. Not to mention the time it'd take to put the new form together. (To give you a sense, I probably spent about 15-20 hours on this this week, which isn't like THAT bad, but I was only editing existing forms.) It might not actually be that bad, but I'd have to open sign-ups earlier in order to give full brainspace to fucking around with it, and I just don't know that that's ever going to happen.

Also, I don't know how I'd make it so that everyone didn't have to land on every page/it wasn't DEEPLY annoying for me to write (e.g. currently, to look at pages 2 and 3 of the bookswap form, I have to fill out page 1 in the preview thing every time I edit something). *thinking emoji* Unless it was just, like, an EXTREMELY long one-page form, which seems inelegant on your end. And then I wouldn't be able to control, like, what was required and not. *more thinking emojis*

Anyway, if you know somebody who's interested in being the swaps coding person, send them my way. Until then, most likely it's going to stay three sign-up forms.

Also, to be honest, people are bad at stuff/things happen, and I GUARANTEE YOU despite all these warnings someone's going to typo their information, and when that happens it's kind of nice for me to be able to check the other swap they signed up for and be like "ohhhh!" l o l.

ETA: Speaking of "things happen," hahahaha, thanks for the note on the c&p error in the drinkswap form. I edited it. I wonder if that'll fuck up the response spreadsheet? I've never touched a form after opening it before. Guess I'll find out!

ETA2: It WOULD also be nice to be able to like archive/edit people's past preferences and info. But again, not sure how without investing a ton of time to figuring it out. If anyone should pass by here and have an idea... :D