3rd Annual Demoscene Card Exchange
category: general [glöplog]
Welcome to the third annual Demoscene Card Exchange!
Join us for an end of year event about sending and receiving cards or postcards with other people in the Demoscene. All you have to is sign up, wait to get your recipients, then get creative! No purchases required (except maybe stamps). The deadline to join is November 5th.
Sign up at https://demoscene.exchanges.cards
Read the rules and get more details at https://demoscene.exchanges.cards/rules
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This has been running well for the past two years as a full demoscene exchange with no major issues, so here we go again! Some people have sent demoscrene postcards, water colors, papercraft, rendered covers, a whole bunch of stuff. So feel free to get creative, but even if you've got too much to do, sending a regular card or postcard from a store is perfectly fine.
If you do decide to post photos of what you get (some people like to see those), feel free to do so. If you post to a platform with hashtags, like Twitter, it would be nice to use #demoscenecardexchange so we can find them all. Don't forget to cover any personal information such as addresses before posting.
Like last year, there's still an opt-in feature that will automatically appear on January 9th PST allowing people to check who was assigned to them so they can work out who they should still be expecting if they haven't gotten all their cards yet.
New this year is a "last chance" exchange. This will automatically open when the deadline for the official exchange ends, and run for a week. However, I absolutely really truly encourage people to sign up by the deadline.
People I end up having to slot in after the deadline usually don't get the chance at many recipients, so hopefully this will fix that, and also give you good reason why you shouldn't miss the deadline!
Thanks again for participating! 🙂
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Stats page for the nerds (so, like, all of us). 😄
Join us for an end of year event about sending and receiving cards or postcards with other people in the Demoscene. All you have to is sign up, wait to get your recipients, then get creative! No purchases required (except maybe stamps). The deadline to join is November 5th.
Sign up at https://demoscene.exchanges.cards
Read the rules and get more details at https://demoscene.exchanges.cards/rules
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This has been running well for the past two years as a full demoscene exchange with no major issues, so here we go again! Some people have sent demoscrene postcards, water colors, papercraft, rendered covers, a whole bunch of stuff. So feel free to get creative, but even if you've got too much to do, sending a regular card or postcard from a store is perfectly fine.
If you do decide to post photos of what you get (some people like to see those), feel free to do so. If you post to a platform with hashtags, like Twitter, it would be nice to use #demoscenecardexchange so we can find them all. Don't forget to cover any personal information such as addresses before posting.
Like last year, there's still an opt-in feature that will automatically appear on January 9th PST allowing people to check who was assigned to them so they can work out who they should still be expecting if they haven't gotten all their cards yet.
New this year is a "last chance" exchange. This will automatically open when the deadline for the official exchange ends, and run for a week. However, I absolutely really truly encourage people to sign up by the deadline.
People I end up having to slot in after the deadline usually don't get the chance at many recipients, so hopefully this will fix that, and also give you good reason why you shouldn't miss the deadline!
Thanks again for participating! 🙂
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Stats page for the nerds (so, like, all of us). 😄
Yay, here we go again! Signed up
thanks for organizing this again! signed up! ✅
Thanks for running this again signed up!
Nice!!
Unluckily I missed the last ones, so I proudly subscribed!
Unluckily I missed the last ones, so I proudly subscribed!
Ho Ho Ho
I'm in!
I added country count to the stats page a few days ago: https://demoscene.exchanges.cards/stats
Not sure there's much else I can add that isn't revealing.
Anyway, definitely poke people you know in the scene who might like to participate. 🙂
Not sure there's much else I can add that isn't revealing.
Anyway, definitely poke people you know in the scene who might like to participate. 🙂
What about non-unique countries? ;D
Reminder, this is the last week to sign up for the card exchange! The deadline is November 5th!
Sign up at https://demoscene.exchanges.cards
Read the rules and get more details at https://demoscene.exchanges.cards/rules
Thank you to all participants!
Sign up at https://demoscene.exchanges.cards
Read the rules and get more details at https://demoscene.exchanges.cards/rules
Thank you to all participants!
Help make the dream of the person that wants to receive 49 cards come true!
*bump*
Phew, just on time.
Signed up, thanks for organising this again! :)
Signed up, thanks for organising this again! :)
No problem. :)
Three hours left to sign up for anyone who just saw this.
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If you miss the deadline, you can still sign up via a link that'll appear on https://demoscene.exchanges.cards/rules later, but you get a better chance at card matching if you sign up before the deadline.
Three hours left to sign up for anyone who just saw this.
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If you miss the deadline, you can still sign up via a link that'll appear on https://demoscene.exchanges.cards/rules later, but you get a better chance at card matching if you sign up before the deadline.
Assignments posted! (if you can't wait for the official email in about 12-13 hours)
Also I unfortunately can't control what some email providers consider spam,* so definitely check your spam folders if you signed up for an email, forgot your ID, and didn't receive anything by late Monday.
* I send plain text emails to be as nice as possible, and yet...
Also I unfortunately can't control what some email providers consider spam,* so definitely check your spam folders if you signed up for an email, forgot your ID, and didn't receive anything by late Monday.
* I send plain text emails to be as nice as possible, and yet...
OK, you'll get the official email in a few hours now, closer to 8am UTC, rather than 8am PST (which is only useful for me).
ooooo what a diverse bunch I got this year! Cheers
Greetings to my fellow sceners in , Norwary, and Country unknown! Your cards are on the way :)
I got all mine out this past Monday, just in case (all international). 🙂 No fancy tracking though.
Arf... Missed this again =/...
Well, next time =).
PS. Nice idea, thou ;).
Well, next time =).
PS. Nice idea, thou ;).
sim, I've thought about letting people sign up to get reminders when it goes live, but that'd be keeping data between years which I don't really want to do. It also doesn't guarantee people will see it, because of false positives in spam filters. If enough people want that, though, I could add this.
I did have a "last chance" sign-up the week after the main deadline, but unfortunately you and someone else missed that too.
I can say that this launches early to mid October every year, so next year's is likely to launch on October 9th, 2023, unless people tell me there's a better day of the week than Monday to start sign-ups. So you can put a note on your calendar to check. The website will always be the same.
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Also I'm not completely out of this year's cards, but I only have one of the final version. The other two are still fine just not exactly the same. So if you wanted, you could swap with me. Just contact me on Discord perhaps.
I did have a "last chance" sign-up the week after the main deadline, but unfortunately you and someone else missed that too.
I can say that this launches early to mid October every year, so next year's is likely to launch on October 9th, 2023, unless people tell me there's a better day of the week than Monday to start sign-ups. So you can put a note on your calendar to check. The website will always be the same.
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Also I'm not completely out of this year's cards, but I only have one of the final version. The other two are still fine just not exactly the same. So if you wanted, you could swap with me. Just contact me on Discord perhaps.
me: "I would like six 2.25€ post stamps, six 50 cent stamps, six 20 cent stamps, six 10 cent stamps and twelve five cent stamps."
teenager girl behind the counter: "We can print you these stick on labels with any amount"
me: *offended by the suggestion*
girl: *gives a deep sigh* "Ok so what did you say..."
All remaining cards sent, so now all cards should be on their way!
teenager girl behind the counter: "We can print you these stick on labels with any amount"
me: *offended by the suggestion*
girl: *gives a deep sigh* "Ok so what did you say..."
All remaining cards sent, so now all cards should be on their way!
my three packages are off to europe as of about 20 minutes ago :)
boxes ticked on the address page thing too :)
boxes ticked on the address page thing too :)
Two nice cards received from branch and enthusi, thanks a lot! Two more to two...
Quote:
me: "I would like six 2.25€ post stamps, six 50 cent stamps, six 20 cent stamps, six 10 cent stamps and twelve five cent stamps."
teenager girl behind the counter: "We can print you these stick on labels with any amount"
me: *offended by the suggestion*
girl: *gives a deep sigh* "Ok so what did you say..."
All remaining cards sent, so now all cards should be on their way!
Yeah, you had our postman quite intrigued. He actually rang to hand over the letter, to find out what this is about. And I was wondering if I'm now required to call up friends that still remember how to remove ink so you can have them back. :D