The magazine and the weekly festival

The magazine collects stories found around CIGT and publishes them one article at a time. Reading needs no account; submitting a story, reacting, or sending a gift does.

• You can read articles and leave reactions
• You can gift points to an article you liked. The full amount goes to the author's channel with no fee taken
• Published articles are bundled into issues with a cover. Past issues stay available
• Opening the same article again does not add to its view count

Gifts cannot be undone — the points move to the other channel the moment you send them. You need your own channel connected to send one, and you cannot gift your own article or an article whose author has no channel connected.

1. 1Open the submission form from the magazine.
2. 2Pick a submission type. There are four: article, fan quest, weekly feature, and operations notice.
3. 3Write the title, a sentence or two introducing the piece, and the body. A draft is created as soon as you type a title, and it is saved automatically whenever you pause.
4. 4If you add a lead image, write its image description too.
5. 5Send it to the editors.

• A submission with an empty body will not go through
• A lead image without a description blocks the submission — that text is what gets read aloud to people who cannot see the image, so it is required
• Lead images must be within the allowed formats and file size
• Your drafts and their review status live in your submission list, where you can pick them back up

Every submission goes through the editors. Titles and wording may be polished before publication.

When a story is published as an article for the first time, points are paid to the author's channel. If that article is later included in an issue, an inclusion reward is paid once more. Both payouts only reach accounts with a channel connected, and editing and republishing a story does not pay the publication reward again. Operations set the inclusion reward.

Editing a published story and resubmitting it only sends the draft back to review. The live article is replaced once the editors publish it again.

An issue is a set of articles bound together with a cover and a table of contents. When an issue opens its cover contest, anyone can enter a cover candidate, and the one that is adopted becomes that issue's cover. Whoever entered the adopted cover is rewarded on their channel, provided they have one connected.

1. 1Open the cover contest page and see whether an issue is currently taking candidates. If none is open, the page says so.
2. 2Choose one of the five cover layouts.
3. 3Upload the cover image and write the cover title — neither can be left out. Add a one-line description and an image description as well.
4. 4Adjust the horizontal and vertical focus and how much the image is darkened, checking the live preview beside the form.
5. 5Confirm the consent checkbox, then enter your candidate.

Candidates entered by other people stay hidden until one is adopted. Showing them early would let entries be copied, which defeats the contest. Your own candidates are always visible to you.

Once entered, a candidate cannot be withdrawn or deleted by you. There is also a cap on how many candidates one person may enter per issue, and operations adjust that cap. Nothing can be entered after the contest period ends.

The weekly festival takes one theme, collects entries, and then picks winners by vote. The page shows only the festival that is running right now. When none is running, it tells you to wait for the next theme.

1. 1During the entry period, send in something that fits this week's theme. You need to fill in at least one of the clip link and the note.
2. 2Operations review the entries and promote some of them to candidates. The number of candidates is capped.
3. 3When the voting period starts, the candidates become visible and you can vote.
4. 4Voting closes at the end of the voting period.

• During the entry period you only see the entry form; the candidate list appears once voting opens
• Not every entry becomes a candidate — only the ones operations promote can be voted for
• Each candidate shows the number of votes it has received so far

You get one vote per festival, and it cannot be taken back or moved to another candidate. Look through the candidates before you choose. An entry you have sent cannot be edited or deleted from the page either.