Swapping Platforms CONFIRMED (Returning to Patreon, people here can probably just ignore this but I want to keep you in the LOOP!)

Greetings and good day and hello,

I will try and keep this one a bit more brief and explain everything up front, and go into detail afterwards. That way if you haven’t got much time, or attention span like me, it should be a 30 second read. If you have even less time I am going to write big things in bold, so you can read what is relevant to you, this isn’t meant to be condescending but instead to help facilitate speed.

- The transfer to Patreon is going ahead, opening on November 1st
- If they make significant changes before we swap platforms we will hold a vote.
- Cancel your Ko-Fi IMMEDIATELY (yes right now), unless you absolutely cannot stand or use Patreon at all.

- Patreon will be the only platform with tiers and rewards.
- All backer rewards will remain active from today until November even if you cancel.

- If your sub runs out between now and then, no rewards will change, names will not be removed from shoutouts until Patreon is active.

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What’s going to happen next:

So, after a huge amount of responses and some things I hadn’t yet considered, I have decided that the transfer to Patreon is going ahead, opening on November 1st unless they make significant platform changes between now and then. I will not be reopening tiers until late october to try and discourage people from joining early (as some of you already have, which is appreciated but unnecessary yet and I haven’t set everything up so can’t give rewards!)

Why we’re waiting:

I am delaying it until November because of some great points made in response to the last post. Specifically, we don’t know if Patreon can be entirely trusted yet, they may have rolled back the problems we had but there is nothing stopping them returning things to how they were before. They made the original changes on the 15th of September, so we’re giving it a good month and a half cooldown to see if there are any announcements or alterations. If they make significant changes before we swap platforms we will hold a vote. If you guys aren’t happy about the changes we won't finalise the swap.

What you need to do:

Cancel your Ko-Fi IMMEDIATELY (yes right now), unless you are not interested in rewards or tiers. Patreon will be the only platform with tiers and rewards. Patreon offers the ability to track rewards so I will only be doing it there. It has an actual built in tier system unlike Ko-Fi, and the systems I built were a complete failure, so keeping up with Ko-Fi rewards is extremely time consuming. As a result I will basically leave Ko-Fi alone from now on, I’ll give an occasional update and copy-paste behind the scenes stuff over there where I can, but I won’t be doing shoutouts or names or anything for Ko-Fi.

What about my shoutout/names/etc:

As I have to manually keep track of rewards and backer perks with Ko-fi all backer rewards will remain active from now until November even if you cancel right now. I won’t be doing a reset until November 6th rolls around anyway as that is when the current Ko-fi cycle ends. That also gives Patreon a couple of days to process payments and any delays that might occur. If your sub runs out between now and then, say tomorrow, no rewards will change. I’m not going to remove any names between now and Patreon.

What happens to Ko-Fi/What if I HATE Patreon:

Ko-Fi I am keeping as a platform for those who don’t want to support/cannot support via Patreon. I know there is some bad blood towards Patreon due to some of their policies (I’m poorly educated on this subject) so Ko-Fi is an alternative in that regard. I know that some regions/payment methods are preferable via Ko-Fis system then Patreons, so that’s also there for you guys as well.

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I will ping the Discord and make a final Ko-fi post on the subject towards the end of the month when the Patreon page is live and polished and open for business!

To sweeten the deal, I’ve worked out some issues, and will hopefully be able to do the supporter sunday idea over on Patreon as an early exclusive, with public access after that! I’m still a big supporter of no exclusive content because it’s not fair on people who can’t afford to support a channel, but early access is fair.

And I think I’ve covered all the bases and feedback people sent in response to the last post. If I’ve missed anything feel free to scream and ping and kick until I see and can respond. I’ll add further responses to the posts on Ko-Fi/Patreon, and on Discord!

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