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Questions on promptathon

5:45 AM, Monday March 24th 2025

I wanna take on the promptathon, since I've missed my chance in the autumn season, so I wanna try it. I do have a few questions and I don't want to look like an idiot when doing the promptathon.

Timezones: Since no one is bounded to one timezone, I wanna know what time the promptathon starts. (The time zone on when the promptathon starts) Since it starts tomorrow. (for me at least)

Posting: Is it necessary to have discord to earn the badge and achievements as well? And where do we post the Artworks from the prompts?

The final question is how will the promptathon start? Like the website will update to give us the prompts?

These are the questions that I think are relevant to ask. I'm sorry for asking many questions, but there doesn't seem to be any specific rules/instructions to promptathon like the lessons. That's why I'm asking these questions that I think are relevant.

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11:23 AM, Monday March 24th 2025
edited at 11:27 AM, Mar 24th 2025

https://drawabox.com/announcement/SPRI2025

Give this a read. It has the answers for your other questions.

I'm sure you don't need Discord for the badges/achievements since you can see it here in the website.

As for the timezone, I can't say for sure. If you join the Discord server you can click the calendar icon and it will show you Spring 2025 Promptathon. You'll see what time the event will start in your timezone. You just have to click Interested so you can get notified.

edited at 11:27 AM, Mar 24th 2025
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7:11 PM, Monday March 24th 2025

Timezones: Promptathon starts at 12AM (midnight) UTC. So whatever timezone you're in (as represented by a + or a - and a number of hours), you can add or subtract that number of hours from midnight. Alternatively, from roughly the time this comment is posted, it starts in 12 hours.

Posting: This is explained in the announcement, here.

Discord: As LLBR11 noted, being on the Discord isn't required, but it can make it easier to realize that there's no specific expectation of quality for what we're drawing for this event. We're all just interpreting the prompts however, and producing whatever we can - and often it's silly nonsense.

How does it start: The drawabox home page will change to show the promptathon prompts where the "start your journey today" banner currently sits. It'll also move the sketchbook posts higher up and give them more room, since that's where promptathon posts will ultimately go, and homework will be pushed to the bottom.

1:47 AM, Tuesday March 25th 2025

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