Dear Yuletide, we have some questions for you. You may have some answers, as well as unrelated suggestions about the way Yuletide is run, or questions of your own. Please share your ideas, whether they concern nominations, rarity, matching, gifts, or timeframes... and so on.

( Our questions )

The deadline has now passed for assignments and pinch hits #1 - #99. Congrats to everyone who made it in!

Pinch Hits #100 - #152 are due 9am UTC December 20thWe will now briefly close the collection and default the remaining assignments. If you've got a later pinch hit or an extension, don't worry if your assignment disappears briefly in the ( Read more... )

Spam, Spam, Spam, Fics, and Spam
Because a high volume of spam is being posted, the Archive of Our Own's Abuse team is using a new spam filter tool that you can read about in a news postA small number of Yuletide works may be incorrectly marked as spam by this filter. We don't think this will cause a problem for Yuletide. However, we do have some ( Read more... )

We're not sure how it happened, but it seems to be December. How is everyone doing?

Yuletide in December cliff notes

• If you have a problem or a question, contact us at yuletideadmin@gmail.com! We hope we can help you with it.
• To discuss Yuletide with other participants, there are
  
  • the Yuletide LJ community,
  • the Yuletide DW community,
  • the Discord chat ( Read more... )

As I post, it is 9am UTC 18th November. That means it is exactly one month until your stories are due!

Please take this opportunity to check what time the deadline is in your timezone. Here is also a countdown to the deadline ( Read more... )

Hello! We hope writing is going well.

We have switched the settings on the Yuletide 2017 collection and the Yuletide Madness 2017 collection to Moderated (they are usually Unmoderated). This is temporary while we and AO3 staff chase down a bug to do with works in collections ( Read more... )

If you have requested a person or a character played by a person who, since signups closed, has been implicated in a scandal that means you no longer wish to receive a gift featuring them, or you would like to make changes to your request, please contact us at yuletideadmin@gmail.com. We can discuss possible options with you. Thank you!

We can announce that, due to popular request, we will be crossposting to Dreamwidth in future at http://yuletide-admin.dreamwidth.orgThank you for all of your comments so far. Whether you have agreed, disagreed, or offered alternatives to the rules we have proposed, there has been a lot of thoughtful feedback ( Read more... )

The second chat will be happening in half an hour (9pm EDT - What time is that for me?). Link to campfire now chatroom. This is a guest access link and you'll be asked for a name so you show up in chat. If you are an AO3 volunteer, either join us in the Public Discussion chat while logged in as usual or log out before you click the link ( Read more... )

Hail, Yuletidees! I trust you are all busily at work finishing your stories (or at least procrastinating on your stories), but if something has come up and you won't be able to finish, you have until Sunday, 15th December, 11:59pm EST (When is that for me?) to default without penalty. Defaulting is done through your assignment page on Archive of ( Read more... )