well, that went well

[totient]

A while ago I posted speculating that as conventions get larger it becomes harder to run them as three-day events and easier to run them as four-day events. But I was talking about conventions twice the size of Arisia, and so it took my by surprise how much easier this Arisia was to run than last year's three-day event.

We had 200 more badges picked up than last year, and yet traffic was easier and everyone was noticeably calmer. Everyone seemed to be having a genuinely good time. Some of it was having a chance to work out how to use the hotel well, and some of it was not getting as far behind on the schedule during the leadup. But I was expecting logistics to fall down hard because of the extra day and instead it worked *better*. Maybe people were getting some actual sleep instead of pushing themselves during the con trying to squeeze everything in.

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[dcseain.livejournal.com]

Ecumenicon is a tiny fraction of the size of Arisia. It was a four-day event for many years, then three-day one for 4 years. Both concom and attendees realized that Thursday night made a huge, and positive, difference on the flow of the con. So, it's four days again, much to everyone's pleasure.