melonland forum has closed for the last september monday! i think about six or seven people ended up participating in this… i’ve given out four early certificates, and i think two or three people posted today. not a massive turnout, but pretty good i think considering it was last-minute and i only posted about it on the melonland forum for the first three weeks of september!
it feels like a pretty small number, but if it was an in-person event i was holding at a library i think i’d be pretty happy with six or seven people turning up, so i think i’ll count it as a success!
a couple of people said they tried stuff they were hesitant to try, or that it helped motivate them to work on things, which i think is great! that was the whole idea! yippeeee.
folks seemed to like the concept, which is cool, so i think i will probably do it again next year! i guess i sort of already committed to that by implication… 
i’m curious if any of the same people will be around next year - the melonland forum skews young and a year is a really long time for a teenager!
doing pixel art for the little forum badges and being sociable were both pretty difficult for me; setting expectations as low as possible helped a lot with minimizing my Struggling on both counts i think.