It is excellent, thank you for doing it.

It would be good to make an announcement one or two weeks before the event starts which asks the users from different platforms (Piefed, Mbin, Misskey, ...) to test the Fedi Auth. So if issues are found there is enough time to fix them.

Maybe it could also help against vandalism if only accounts which are at least one week old are allowed.

Somehow, I find the Canvas event isn't getting much visibility on Lemmy and Mastodon. I am subscribed to the community and hashtag, but I will hardly see it popping in my feed without doom scrolling.

If the event visibility could improve,I think a lot more people would be interested to join and participate. Maybe we could reach out to admins from big and medium instances and ask if they are interested to pin a post for the next canvas, propose a template for people to participate in, something like that.

Adding to DmMacniel's suggestion - picking colors from pixels placed on canvas would be nice, as the color pallette differs when certain theme settings are set in browser. Also, template toggle button would be nice to see on desktop

If there are constroversial pixel wars (see the whole hungary saga) maybe make a subchat on the matrix for that

I got logged off a bit too often and had some issues with pixels not placing when I had an active overlay (whether it was a template or the grid), was that common/being looked into or was it just me? (Using Safari from mobile).

Other than that though, I had definitely less issues than the past years, and it was definitely a good time as always. Canvas size was perfect imo, unless the fediverse has significant growth by then (which god I hope it does), next year I’d suggest making it 500x500 again, or at most 600x600. I’d also prefer if it was in Fall or Winter instead, but that’s just my preference.

Either way, thanks for this year too!

This was great, as always. A couple of super minor QoL things:

• Would it be possible to keep the undo button available for a few extra seconds?
• Is better color detection for templates possible? I saw a couple of cases where certain pixels in the image were clearly one color, but the number/symbol/dot guides said they were something different (see the programming.dev template, for example).

Feature request: Audio chime when my pixel reserve is full.

Edit: Yes Sugar, I am aware of the audio chime for single pixels :)

I noticed a very minor typo: the login button labeled "I'm already apart of the fediverse" should read "I'm already a part of the fediverse."

Otherwise it was great. The canvas size and cool-down period both felt right. The final artwork looks good. Thanks for putting on the event again!

I really miss extending into a new canvas. Please consider doing one of those next time! :D

I would suggest looking into the colour picking from a template function. It is quite frustrating when it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't and also triggers when you use your middle mouse button to pan.

• I would even love it when there is an option to disable it all together, so that the one hardware element that is used for navigation in so many other applications is fully working on the canvas as well.

It was great though that the software and server was throughout the event so stable, so kudos to that!

Bug: I seemed to be able to effectively store up 7 pixels, not 6.

How? The maximum the UI displays is 6/6, but after receiving the 6th pixel, there seems to be an invisible 30 second timer which runs in the background. When I place my next pixel, the timer counts down not from 30, but from whatever the invisible timer was at. If the timer had reached 0, I immediately received an additional pixel.

I'm not complaining about the extra pixel, but it would be nice for the UI to match :)

Unrelated, but my last second pixel placement didn't work out. I waited till last second and it already said Canvas frozen :(