[2020] One thing that I haven't seen addressed by Mediatonic in this whole Season 3 start date kerfuffle:

Hey!

Yeah, in that thread I did articulate this but I'll do so here again - it's a communication issue from our side that we will improve, I don't think we tried to say it was the community's fault at any point? I certainly didn't but let me know if there's something that makes it sound that way. And I also am not sure what gaslighting you mean in this instance but let me know (feel free to DM if you want?)

We're making sure we tighten up wording and how we handle the countdown timer / how season updates are articulated to you so that this is much better.

Ah I see!

Just re-reading now that work has finished for me - what Oliver articulated is correct that the timer hasn't historically indicated the start of the next season, but has indicated the start of "Thing that will happen between seasons before we show the next date", but with only a two seasons being done before, we haven't really have a 'standard' yet on what we do between seasons. The knock-on of that/poor communication has got us here. We certainly don't mean it as like 'oh no you misunderstood us and that's on you guys', more 'oh we did not communicate this properly'.

I'm not surprised you thought S3 was going to go the same way really, and sorry that it hasn't been clear at all - it sucks but I want to solve this going forward so we'll not have any issues like this again, as it really is a communication thing that can be solved by a few small changes (and something I can help with a lot in terms of getting word out / helping with visibility here)!