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2023 Updates & Changes

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The DA Poly Website has been fully updated for 2023, and boy were there a lot of updates to be made. Please read through the changes below the cut and let us know if you have any questions. Also don't forget:

Nominations open in just over a month!​

Changes​

Communications​

  • After a lot of thought and consideration, we've decided to shut down the exchange twitter. We're sorry for those of you who use that as your main source of news, but the platform has become openly hostile to small projects and creators and it's going to be impossible for us to post there and ensure you actually see our updates. Instead, you can follow our announcements in the following ways:

    • Our Website

      We have added a blog to our website which will have an archive of all of our posts from today onward. You can follow the blog in your RSS reader of choice! (Have no idea what RSS is? I highly recommend the in depth blog RSS for Post-Twitter News and Web Monitoring, but you can also find a more bite-sized intro on mod enigmalea's website here.)

    • Tumblr

      Our tumblr will continue to host announcements and information about the exchange and will continue to host Poly Sharing (the new name for the former DA Polyshipping Day/Week).

    • Mod enigmalea's Mastodon

      If you're on Mastodon, enigmalea will be posting updates there. If you'd rather not follow them directly, you can also follow the groups @dragonage@chirp.social and @dragonage@gup.pe and see the updates that way!

    • The Hanged Man Dreamwidth & The Hanged Man Pillowfort

      If you have an account on Dreamwidth or Pillowfort, we'll be sharing updates in The Hanged Man communities on those sites!

    • Fandom Calendar Dreamwidth

      We will be posting a schedule and reminder for each stage of the exchange on Fandom Calendar!

General​

  • Polyshipping Week info was renamed to "Poly Sharing" and updated to reflect that we reblog DA poly content at any time!

  • Collections for the exchange will remain open at all times for additional treats. If you have a prompt you still want to write from any previous years, feel free to do so!

  • Website has been updated with all new info. The tumblr pinned post has all updated info, as well.

  • The AO3 collection now features a short version of the FAQ to save space. Please refer to the website for the in depth FAQ.

  • The countdown was removed from the tumblr layout. The website homepage still has a countdown!

  • The website was updated to show all deadlines in your local time.

Rules Updates​

  • The rules have been updated to clarify that previously posted works cannot be added to the collection. An exception to this might be a transformational work of a work already in the collection (for example, if someone makes a podfic for a fic in the collection and doesn’t add it to the collection initially, it could be added later.)

  • The rules were also clarified to disallow works which are entirely AI generated. Our Exchange Info gives a more detailed explanation of what we mean.

Nominations​

  • There have been no changes to nominations.

Sign-Ups​

  • Sign-Ups require a minimum of 3 ships for requests and offers instead of one. We've received sign-ups with very limited requests and offers lately which makes producing a match very difficult.

  • Sign-Ups now allow for up a maximum of 60 ships requested and an unlimited number of ships offered. Please see Tutorials - How to Sign-Up for more details.

  • Your requests cannot consist of entirely ships which use a DNW to limit your creator to creating for only your OC. For at least one of the three ships you request you should be open to receiving any OC (generic, one created specifically for your gift, or your gifter's OC) or should be a ship which has no original characters. Creating for other people's OCs is complex and is not something that everyone is able or willing to tackle within the context of an exchange, so participants should be willing to be flexible for at least one request.

  • If you are requesting art of your OC we ask that you have more than one reference for both face and body. Otherwise, artists may have a difficult time filling your request.

Other Exchange Stuff​

  • Last, but certainly not least, the mods will be posting a separate Treatless list this year. The link has not been added anywhere yet, but will be shortly after sign-ups close!