(Dress Rehearsal) Feedback Post

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It's time to wind up the Dress Rehearsal for Miracle Live! School Idol Roleplay with a feedback post! Thank you once again to everyone who participated. I'd love for any players to comment about what they liked and what could have been done to make the game better that can be put towards the full round next year.

Full disclosure, I haven't modded in a very long time, and I apologize for my rust. There are some things that I noticed that I'd especially like feedback on to improve:
-Sustaining interest. While the Dress Rehearsal started with a burst of activity and there was another one at the Opportunity, play started to decline as the week went on. This was especially clear with the Live, which was supposed to be the goal that the entire week built up to, but not every player replied to the post and all but one of those replied only to the Preparation. I know that life happens and there are lots of other priorities, but I'd like to know what I could have done to keep things going.
-Communication. There were a few misunderstandings and some things that seemed to take people by surprise, and I'm very thankful to everyone who brought them to my attention (and sorry that the rules channel in the Discord was locked for weeks!). The best way I can think to improve this is to make it clear what time of day things will be posted, rather than what day; that way, if anything needs to change, it can be brought up beforehand (as happened with the Live, where the last two portions unlocked at 3 rather than 12 after feedback). I'm open to any suggestions here as well.
-NPCs. My intent was to have NPCs not only appear at plot beats but also respond to toplevels and/or post their own in order to give the players more to respond to. You could run into Wakaba at school, if you were reading B♡nd then you'd get a reply with the contents of today's news, and more, as teased by the appearance of another NPC in the ending to serve as a teaser for the main round as a "rival" character. In practice, this worked some of the time, but could have been done better, especially with regards to the Aftermath section of the Live. I'd like to hear any feedback on the NPCs, what made people tag them or not, and what could have been done better.

If there's anything else you can think of that didn't work, or conversely, if there's anything you really liked about the Dress Rehearsal, please let me know! The feedback post is open, and please feel free to discuss amongst yourselves as well.

Thank you all very much once again. This was a lot of fun and I'm glad it all worked out well. Hope to see you all next spring!