I just wanted to take a moment to remind those who are or who have been out of town to please leave a comment for your writers!

And even if you defaulted, please comment. The only thing we ask of participants outside of the story guidelines themselves is to at least say thank you for the gift you've received.

I had meant to announce this earlier, but the AO3 has a cool new feature this year, in time to prevent the annual faux pas of replying to comments on your stories, and thereby blowing your anonymity! From the archive ( Read more... )

We're trying several things to try and improve performance, FYI, so don't be surprised if the site goes down for a few moments or if performance changes over the course of the next couple of days -- sorry ( Read more... )

I've made a link in the sidebar of yuletide to the Dear Writer: I'll Be AFK for Yuletide post ( Read more... )

FYI, there appears to be a problem with our server such that it returns a 500 Server Error when trying to email copies of comments to you. Your actual comments should go through just fine, but you may not get an email copied to you as usual. We're aware of the problem, and I hope it will be resolved before too long!

One of the things we like to do is reward the top commenters who aren't Yuletide participants with the option to contribute 3-4 requests for the NYR Challenge. There are no guarantees of stories, of course, but there's always hope ( Read more... )

We're using an email relay system this year, but all notifications that go out should arrive looking as though they came directly from the commenter -- if they left an email address. Otherwise they'll show as coming from the yuletide address (and if you keep this in mind when it comes time to reply, and check, I will not have to mock you for ( Read more... )

We have two other nifty toys here at Yuletide! (and they take a bit to pull up)

The Top Commenters List

This lists the top 15 commenters for participants and non-participants. Note: some of the supposed non-participants are participants, they're just "signing" their comments with a name other than the one they signed up with.

The Give Love page ( Read more... )

Please check out earlier entries from early this morning, to be up-to-date on Yuletide!

Leaving Comments, and Notes to Authors and Recipients

Do not respond to comments until after the 1st! Do not delete emailed comments if you want to respond to them! (if the commenters left their emails ( Read more... )

If you comment on a story, and it does not appear to go through/show up when you look at the page, do not comment again, if you hit the "submit" button! The comment pages do not always update dynamically, and once the search pages are open, the numbers of comments on the search page will often not match the actual number of comments received, until ( Read more... )