2022 schedule and an announcement

[worldbuildingmod]

Nominations: Tuesday 4th-Monday 10th January
Sign ups: Friday 14th-Monday 24th January
Assignments out by: Friday 28th January
"Default deadline": Friday 11th March
Assignments due: Friday 18th March
Works revealed: Friday 25th March
Creators revealed: Friday 1st April

Everything will take place at 0755 UTC (except creator reveals, which will be at 0655 UTC, due to the clocks changing).

After a lot of consideration, I have decided that the 2022 round (the sixth overall) will be the last time Worldbuilding Exchange runs; I'll write a comment in reply to this post with more detail for those who want it.

Comments

[worldbuildingmod]

My reasons for stopping Worldbuildingex are entirely personal. A lot of things have changed in my life in such a way as to leave me much less time for exchanges in general and modding in particular. If all goes to plan, I am expecting some even bigger changes in 2022 that are likely to have even more of an impact. I nearly made an announcement like this last year, but didn't want to be making major decisions (on anything, to be honest, let alone what is ultimately a hobby activity) at the height of the pandemic. Having had another year to think about it, though, I've decided that I definitely need to step back. I did consider putting the exchange on hiatus rather than outright stopping, but the chances of me coming back to it on even a medium-term timescale seemed low enough that it was better to be certain about it, both for participants' sakes and my own.

I imagine there will be some who think I should try to pass the exchange on as a going concern, so to speak. There may even be some people who would volunteer to take it over, and I will admit that I did think about reaching out to a few individuals to see if they would be interested. However (and again after a lot of thought), I have come to the conclusion that I am much more comfortable with the idea of a new worldbuilding-themed exchange taking as much or as little inspiration from this one as its mod(s) wanted it to. So if there is anyone out there who wants to do that, please take that as encouragement to start planning for 2023 and permission to take whichever bits you think work well from worldbuildingex.

[narya_flame]

All the very best with everything and thank you for making this event such a wonderful experience. (I was actually going to sit it out this time, but since this is the last one, I may well change my mind and take part!!)

[(Anonymous)]

Thank you for running six iterations of this exchange. It's been great.

[crantz]

Thank you so much for running this exchange one last time! It's been a wonderful one.