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[personal profile] tinny2025-07-01 07:30 pm
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Retro Mod Feedback



I regularly contact mods of old lj communities, and usually I don't get a response. But in June, I got three!

From [livejournal.com profile] tinebrella, [livejournal.com profile] blueymcphluey, and [livejournal.com profile] _puchula_ . All of them were happy to be asked and gave us permission for their challenge posts. \o/

One of them, [livejournal.com profile] tinebrella, specifically sent greetings to all of us! She said:

Tell everyone I said hi, if there's anyone from the old days that might remember me, I miss you all!
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[personal profile] tinny2025-01-09 06:24 pm
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Preferred Comms Poll

Since it's a new year, I'm looking ahead at what we should do next. It's not like I've run out of options yet, but we've been active here long enough that maybe we could think about revisiting some of the comms we've had already.

So here's my question: from which comm of the ones we already did would you like to see another round?

Poll #32509 Retro_Icontest Comms
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 9


Preferred comms so far

View Answers

01 iconsomething
0 (0.0%)

02 theiconthrone
3 (33.3%)

03 calendarsquares
1 (11.1%)

04 technique20in20
4 (44.4%)

05 perioddrama_ic
4 (44.4%)

06 20muses
2 (22.2%)

07 the7days
6 (66.7%)

08 pokicons
0 (0.0%)

09 theiconquest
4 (44.4%)

10 shire_icontest
1 (11.1%)

11 paintedpixels
1 (11.1%)

12 character20n20
2 (22.2%)

13 pll_stillness
0 (0.0%)

14 a_mused
0 (0.0%)

15 watchnicon
0 (0.0%)

16 createandshine
0 (0.0%)

17 turbo_rumble
2 (22.2%)

18 oddlyspecificon
0 (0.0%)

19 10in30
3 (33.3%)

20 itshorrific
2 (22.2%)

21 nonstopicons
0 (0.0%)

22 au_rooms
0 (0.0%)



fair warning about turbo_rumble: the choose-your-own-adventure round there was a one-time thing. i'm unlikely to do that very same challenge again.

If you want to suggest other comms that we haven't had at all yet, I'm all ears, too! Just leave a comment.
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[personal profile] tinny2024-09-21 10:31 am
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Round 18 - Guessing Concluded

After one week of guessing we have uncovered the makers of 38 of the 50 submitted icons. \o/

If your icon hasn't been guessed and you would like to reveal it yourself, you can do that here:

https://retro-icontest.dreamwidth.org/48894.html?thread=201726#cmt201726

the next round is coming up later today - i have no idea what it will be yet :D
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[personal profile] tinny2024-09-08 10:34 am
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Mod Post

Hello dear participants!

Don't worry about how weird the screened submitted comments look. I can see the icon links just fine.

(And since I now know a few participants at this point, I won't participate in the guessing.)

Keep submitting to your heart's content! The more the merrier. <3

There's still time until Friday.
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[personal profile] tinny2024-01-17 04:22 pm
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Reminder + Challenge Repost





Since squidge.org was down for four days this week (due to power outages in the pacific northwest), all the challenge inspiration material wasn't visible.

I'll repost the challenge post ==NEON LIGHTS== right after this reminder, so you can all see it in its intended glory. I hope you'll enjoy the challenge!

The deadline for this round is February 16.
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[personal profile] tinny2023-03-02 02:19 pm
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in progress

After the poll at [community profile] icontalking was unanimously in favor of creating a community where we could enjoy old icon challenges again, I've created this comm for this purpose.

I'm currently in the process of setting it up, so please bear with me.

Rough idea: monthly challenges from all over the place, mostly/preferably from very old, dead LJ icon challenge comms. We'll adapt the rules (specifically voting: none, number of icons: unlimited, and allowed fandoms: all) for each challenge so we have the same rules for every challenge here in this comm, overriding the restrictions of the original challenge comm. This is done so everyone can enjoy our challenges without the rules changing too much from month to month.

The main goal of this comm is to celebrate the iconmaker community and the immense creativity of its members over the last 25+ years.

1) If you are an administrator of an active icon challenge comm, or used to run one that is now closed, feel free to let me know if you would allow us (or not allow us) to reuse your challenges in the context of retro_icontest. That will save me the trouble of coming to ask you separately. :)

2) If you would like to be a co-mod, please let me know.

3) If you have any questions, please comment to this post.