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X-27 wants to Reinstate Monica

02:55

Oh wow. So Shog got canned. Or left. But given SE's recent actions, I wouldn't be a bit surprised if he was forced out.

Soooooooo would anyone miss it if there was no Winter Bash 2020?

David

@AnkitSharma ok will post an answer.

@Panda very true. no idea how I missed you both.

X-27 wants to Reinstate Monica

03:14

Really though... why does SE think it is a good idea to remove their best staff members?

And remove Meta itself...

U10-Forward - Reinstate Monica

@X-27wantstoReinstateMonica Exactly.

Still no blog!

X-27 wants to Reinstate Monica

(On a side note, I think the only thing Sara Chipps could post and have upvoted a large amount would be a resignation notice)

David

@U10-Forward-ReinstateMonica I'm beginning to think there will be none.

U10-Forward - Reinstate Monica

@David Less and less hope for our blog

X-27 wants to Reinstate Monica

big sad...

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David

04:22

PS @Panda do you now own winterba.sh ?

David

04:33

@Panda and @eLRuLL sorry for excluding you from the stats. It was unintentional. I somehow messed up 2018's winners.

Panda

@David hmm actually yes! my posts gave it away right?

but I’m still not quite sure of the licensing of WB hats

@David nah it’s fine!

David

@Panda only kind of. I was doing some digging (looking up the info for the stats above) when I came across your site. I put the pieces together and figured you did.

Panda

@David ahh sharp!

I might considering putting up some stuff later in the year

David

nice touch having a tribute or history for the winter bash be on the original WB url.

Panda

@David yep thanks! I did manage to track down the original images of almost all of the hats except for the secret hats from 2012 & 2013 (around 13 hats missing)

my original plan was to include the images of past hats & also some stats such as the total hats awarded, etc.

David

04:47

@Panda hold on I might me able to find one of those. It was Sunday I re-found all that info.

Panda

I kinda envision the site to be something like this

@David but as seen, I don’t have the original sprites for the secret hats from 2013

David

@Panda right. and the links I thought had the hats do not :(

@Panda looks nice. but from the recent events I have much less interest in SE.

Panda

@David the closest I found is this post – meta.stackexchange.com/questions/214528/… but they’re rather small

@David actually same, didn’t expect the CM saga today, rather disappointing :/

eLRuLL

@David yeah don't worry about it and thanks for writing something like that. I was not participating this year so that's why I just notice it :)

Ankit Sharma

@David thanks

David

05:14

@Panda yah I can't find the originals either. I'm guessing you already have these

Panda

@David yep I have them; it's rather challenging to find secret hats, especially since each has a separate sprite file

only way was if someone saved them that year or if it's archived (I checked, but the ~13 missing aren't archived)

@David web archive's actually a really good resource, I've gotten most of the 330 hats I found there

David

@Panda indeed.

back before I kept all the hats on meta, that is how I found old triggers. was not easy.

Panda

@David HAHA if only someone had taken the extra effort to archive all the secret hats in 2013/14

David

you mean 12/13 right?

Panda

@David oops yes, 12/13

@David unexpectedly I've got all of the hats from 2011's Hat Dash, many thanks to balpha and Tim Post who found them last year

Q: Images of the hats from Arqade's 2011 Hat Dash

The present Winter Bash started out in 2011 on Gaming Stack Exchange exclusively as "Hat Dash". All the images of the hats that year seem to be located in a PNG file: http://hatdash.com/content/img/hats128.png. (On Gaming SE Meta, there are only images of the 6 secret hats.) Unfortunately, the ...

David

05:24

I saw that.

Panda

@David basically these are the only hats I couldn’t find

David

@Panda we could piece together them from reused hats and saved pictures.

I'll ask any old users you know, they might still have pictures. I'll ask on BSE.

Panda

@David yep that would work for the 3 repeat hats but won’t look that well for the rest

@David ahh thanks!! I’ll credit all the sources that I get the hats from on the site when it launches (probably sometime later in the year)

also a full page screenshot of how the site will look!

David

05:56

@Panda looks nice!

Panda

@David thanks!!

Ankit Sharma

hat pics are in hat list post every year?

David

06:11

@AnkitSharma not all the hats.

Panda

@AnkitSharma technically they are, but they are either too small & blurry or they have colored backgrounds

so the original sprites are still most preferable

actually the reason why it’s so difficult to find 12/13 hats is cause WB hats used to be in .png files

Ankit Sharma

ohh

Panda

but since WB14, they’ve transitioned to using SVG which’s just code so the newer ones are much easier to find in the web archive

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David

07:26

meta.stackexchange.com/q/214876/278094 just leaving this here for reference. 2013 images is not easy to come by.

Panda

@David thanks I remember coming across that while I was searching too

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Ankit Sharma

09:13

A: Do we have comparative statistics for Winter Bash 2019?

Here are the stats from all Winter Bashes. | Year | Users | Hats | Winners | # of Winners | |------|--------|--------|-----------------------------------------------|--------------| | 2012 | 46710 | 108924 | N/A* ...