hi, I'm one of the embers that came to warn everyone a few months back (at the end of Thundercrack, actually) about how I didn't have faith in the Dom Team to have stuff ready for this push and cited last year's problems.
The thing is, the majority of the team is fine. Most of the people had major issues with Duchess' handling of things, and if people remember the leaks of the Dom Issues thread in the Fire Flight Discord, the main problems outlined were:
- communication from the team to the flight - who can run events - lack of proper prep for the flight's push - wanting more pushes/more events
This may be outing myself slightly but I was one of the main vocal people in that thread trying to propose solutions, and a number of us very concerned people from last year decided to take on new roles to try and alleviate the issues we had with last year's push. I became an event runner, and Pessi was one of those people who also stepped up and joined the AA to try and help fix the issues.
I don't want to think that this is the case, but I had people warning me last year that the issue is more to do with a particular head of the team that wants to keep it so that they run things and not let the others deviate just slightly. It's most likely why the rest of the team were like "what do we do what do we do" instead of going to deviate and getting the thread up without the graphics so the attendants could actually do their jobs.
I honestly wished my gut instinct wasn't correct because it was warning me that this year's fest push would go up in flames (har har) spectacularly and I wasn't expecting this. Especially since I encouraged a lot of new people to help join the events and the raffle/public buy so that they felt involved and could help out.
Sometimes it feels like I've poured more into the community with what I've done than what the main lead has done over the course of the year alone and I don't think it's fair tbh.
Re: FF2023
The thing is, the majority of the team is fine. Most of the people had major issues with Duchess' handling of things, and if people remember the leaks of the Dom Issues thread in the Fire Flight Discord, the main problems outlined were:
- communication from the team to the flight
- who can run events
- lack of proper prep for the flight's push
- wanting more pushes/more events
This may be outing myself slightly but I was one of the main vocal people in that thread trying to propose solutions, and a number of us very concerned people from last year decided to take on new roles to try and alleviate the issues we had with last year's push. I became an event runner, and Pessi was one of those people who also stepped up and joined the AA to try and help fix the issues.
I don't want to think that this is the case, but I had people warning me last year that the issue is more to do with a particular head of the team that wants to keep it so that they run things and not let the others deviate just slightly. It's most likely why the rest of the team were like "what do we do what do we do" instead of going to deviate and getting the thread up without the graphics so the attendants could actually do their jobs.
I honestly wished my gut instinct wasn't correct because it was warning me that this year's fest push would go up in flames (har har) spectacularly and I wasn't expecting this. Especially since I encouraged a lot of new people to help join the events and the raffle/public buy so that they felt involved and could help out.
Sometimes it feels like I've poured more into the community with what I've done than what the main lead has done over the course of the year alone and I don't think it's fair tbh.