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V_Mags_Fox 🏳️‍⚧️:3@chirpbirb There’s just no possible way to get 12,000 people through in any expedient manner without a small battalion of volunteers. 12,000 people is a good sized town. To put some scale to it, the City of Bulter, just one county up, has a population of 13,000. AC just processed an entire city of registration.
Lockely 
Yeah, at this point we're looking at a problem of scale. I know some other large cons give the option to mail the badges for a small fee. The badges also have a small design printed into them with invisible ink so you can verify authenticity if needed. I'd be down with that even if I had to pay more for the convenience.
Eric Malves 
@chirpbirb my experience on Friday morning was pretty alright. 2 hours of wait and once I was at the table, it was less than 2 minutes of working with the person.
With how many people I saw digging in bags and talking to the registration people, I can’t help but wonder if they weren’t prepared or hadn’t done the registration in line.
Again, my first con so I’m a terrible person to be giving input on it all!
@EricMalves we preregistered, so our wait time was less than an hour. we also picked our stuff up on Friday, so we didn't get the full LineCon experience. I believe we're looking into options to alleviate that for next year, but we're all still recovering ROFL
@chirpbirb I was on site registration and was in line 10 minutes before opening. Not horrible and also skipped the line that was Thursday!
I wonder if doing mailed badges for preregistration folks wouldn’t help with the rush. At least then most pre registration people can skip the line. I have no idea how the logistics of that would work
@EricMalves an issue with mailing badges is that they can be counterfitted easier since someone can hold an original and clone it before the con. that's the biggest concern that staff seems to have right now, along with the people and $ needed to run that. but, like i said, we're all tired and need to regroup lol
Colin@chirpbirb @EricMalves I tried on Wed and Thurs and it was a disaster.
I don't know why they don't make Wed+Thurs entirely pre-reg only days, or at least Weds. Would be nice to keep the at-the-door reg way more separated from the lines. Or have them more separated so the lines don't end up mixed together.
Also doesn't FWA do mail-home reg? Thought I heard that.
@colinstu @EricMalves its an extra cost; we'd have to figure out either a volunteer effort or a mailing partner to get it done. most likely we'll discuss it during the staff wrap up we'll have in a few weeks once we're all settled
@chirpbirb @colinstu hopefully a good solution can be found. I can imagine the stress registration causes staff.
Would be neat to handle it like a cruise where your stuff is in your room when you check in, but that’s probably its own world of issues!
I wouldn’t be against putting some volunteer time in next year to try and help get more hands registering folks.
@chirpbirb @EricMalves also I'm curious if there were just some operational issues that first day or two. From what I've heard from others who did make it to the front, they were down to like half the possible stations for handling reg. Are those observations true? If so, wtf was going on and how can that be fixed? Maybe there's an easier fix here that I'm not aware of.
They definitely need to post correct hours of operation if they're gonna close off so early. False advertising ticks me.
@colinstu @EricMalves i think the reason they closed early was that they were overwhelmed. i'm not too aware of the whole situation but from what i heard it was a staffing issue and just a lot of people. i'm definitely asking questions for next year to avoid this tho lol
Evelyn fra denne andre øya@chirpbirb From the replies I assume this is about a specific issue, so fair enough, but my first reading was more as a generality, and I know some disabled attendees get treated like this when they ask for accessibility they're legally entitled to.
@evelyn this wasn't directed towards accessibility needs, which i am taking into consideration for our staff meetings. i'm more focused on the immediate concerns with reg, which everyone seems to have solution for lol
@chirpbirb yea dw, I understood the meaning from context, just without that context it has some uncomfortable echoes and might maybe be misread, that's all
@evelyn completely understand! đź’š