{"id":470,"date":"2016-05-21T01:59:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-21T08:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=470"},"modified":"2016-05-21T01:59:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T08:59:17","slug":"awards-ceremony-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"Awards Ceremony 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The XYZZY Awards ceremony for 2015 will be held <a href=\"http:\/\/ifmud.port4000.com\/\">on the ifMUD<\/a> on Saturday, May 28, at 8 AM Honolulu time &#8211; or, should you inhabit a slightly more populous slice of the planet, 11 AM US-Pacific, 2 PM US-Eastern, 7 PM UK. We hope you can join us as we announce the winners.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=429\">As promised<\/a>, I&#8217;ve been looking into possible alternatives to ifMUD; in that process, it has become clear that running the ceremony smoothly takes a pretty specialised setup, one which is very difficult to replicate\u00a0in any kind of plug-and-play chatroom. At this point, I&#8217;m not confident about running a ceremony successfully from any of the alternative platforms I&#8217;ve looked at, and I&#8217;d rather not delay the Awards any more. I&#8217;m still very conscious that ifMUD is a difficult environment for anybody who doesn&#8217;t frequent it regularly, and I&#8217;m hoping to have a viable alternative in place\u00a0by next year &#8211; even if that means recruiting a volunteer\u00a0willing to build a custom platform. In the meantime, we&#8217;ll be producing a ceremony-specific guide to navigating the MUD &#8211; we don&#8217;t pretend that this is a complete solution, but we hope that it&#8217;ll help for the time being.<\/p>\n<p>Voting is closed and will remain so through this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The XYZZY Awards ceremony for 2015 will be held on the ifMUD on Saturday, May 28, at 8 AM Honolulu time &#8211; or, should you inhabit a slightly more populous slice of the planet, 11 AM US-Pacific, 2 PM US-Eastern, 7 PM UK. We hope you can join us as we announce the winners. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=470"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}