Personally, I’d kill off FEE3 entirely. 
Wait, hear me out.
Viewer fatigue is a big problem. If you read anything about building an online presence or youtube channel, it is highly recommended to:
- Share regularly
- Once a day or once a week is optimal
- Pick your timezones / days to release content
Perhaps we don’t need to strategize to this extent, but I think it’s worth a thought.
Project of the Week (PotW)
Make PotW an all-encompassing entity. A grotesque amalgamation of features - the good projects and the bad. Same time, every week, release a video & feature the project on feuniverse. Put the youtube video at the top of the featured project’s OP.
- One of our Let’s Players would record a LP for that week.
LP Details
- (The .UPS patch must be submitted a month or more in advance. Videos ready a couple weeks in advance, generally, and already uploaded, but only made public on the PotW date.)
- (Say you can’t record some weeks, between us I think we could pull off one LP a week. Someone might occasionally record 3 week’s worth all in a row, or we just alternate when various people are available.)
Users would submit their project for review.
Requirements
- A project can be featured once per year.
- All projects pass as long as they have a project thread or sufficient evidence of a hack being ready (eg. pictures)
- Eventually, there would be a steady flow of projects erasing the need to order them far in advance. But I expect that initially a huge number of people would express interest in being featured this way.
- I made a suggestion for PotW recently. Basically, a voting system where users can select multiple projects from a long poll that lists out a bunch of projects. This makes for a quick and easy way to vote for each other’s projects.
- If we ever have too much of an influx of self-nominations to be featured, we could potentially rename PotW to “Featured Project” and do it twice a week until things die down a little bit, assuming Let’s Players are up for that.
Mod Involvement
I want to minimize the amount of work for mods.
Ideas
- Is it possible to schedule & automate featuring a thread globally?
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- If not, a mod would need to do this each week.
- We could require users to edit in the youtube video link in their project OP 2 days in advance, otherwise they’d be skipped over that week. The video would be private still, so it would just be an eyesore in the OP for a couple days until it’s made public.
- Alternatively, if mods want to insert the video into the post each week, that would be fine.
- ALTERalternatively we do some sort of megathread of PotW and someone like Pandan can edit it to have the youtube video & to link to the current PotW’s thread. Or even a new thread each week could work.
FEE3’s fate?
Now… all of this doesn’t actually need to be mutually exclusive from FEE3. We could do both. 
But that’s too much work (and I think this idea would be much less work). But I know FEE3 must hold a special place in many people’s hearts. Therefore, I’d suggest severely scaling it back and adopting my above suggestions. FEE3 could become an annual recap of the year instead. Someone voices over 52 minutes of a random 1 minute clip from each PotW (that goes in order). We also might accept LTC/speedruns or videos under 5 minutes that people make. Event organizers will NOT do this for you. Let’s Plays are strictly for the PotW features. That way, FEE3 still kinda exists but it’s only the work of making one hour-long video. If editing random clips together to speak over feels like too much work, then just someone talking while browsing the forums here looking at each project thread could work.
Conclusion
FEE3 is a really cool event, but we can tackle the issues it’s been facing and improve the site & increase the amount of traffic we get at the same time. Everything said, this would not take place for this year’s FEE3. If anyone is in support of this idea, I’d suggest we aim for December to start it up. There may also be some issues to iron out. This is just my thoughts.
- Let’s rebuild PotW!
- No, PotW is a bad idea
0 voters
FEE3’s fate is not related to this poll, as both FEE3 and PotW could exist. This poll is purely for measuring interest in PotW’s revival.
I am terribly sorry for the length of this post.