Douglas Miller
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Explanation of gold tier post dates and notifications
🕑 Added 2024-03-17 17:45:24 +0000 UTCI've had a number of people on gold tier comment with confusion about the dates of chapter posts, and about how notifications of new chapters are working. So, here's an explanation for anyone who might still be confused but hasn't asked:
Each chapter is posted first for platinum tier and higher. Gold tier gains access later. The date shown on a chapter post is when it was posted for platinum tier. The latest gold-tier post being weeks old thus shows only that gold tier is behind platinum, not that the story is on break.
If you want the lowest tier that gets all chapters as soon as possible, reading each new chapter when it's originally posted, the tier for that is platinum. It technically always has been, and always will be; platinum will always have full access to all advance chapters and bonus content*. Gold tier happened to match platinum for several months at first, but I promised from the beginning in the tier descriptions that I would eventually add 3 more chapters to platinum tier, and I have now fulfilled that promise.
* I haven't actually made any bonus content yet, and I don't plan to ever make a large amount of bonus content, but I do intend to make some bonus content. However much of it I make, platinum tier will get all of it.
Now about notifications:
Patreon handles notifications for making a post accessible to an additional tier poorly. By default, it wouldn't notify at all. I've been taking an extra manual step to make it send notification emails when unlocking a chapter for gold tier, and I think this also makes it add a mobile notification if you're using the Patreon mobile app, but this notification describes it as if I just edited the post.
On your home page, or "recent", in the website or mobile app, I think the newly unlocked post is listed according to its original date of when it was posted, not when it was unlocked for your tier. I am uncertain what date Patreon uses for listing the notification on your notifications page inside the app or site. I can't easily test such details myself because Patreon does not have a feature for viewing my own page from the perspective of a specific tier of patrons.
Comments
Sinful
You can use BlueStacks to simulate Android on your pc, you can install Patreon on it and make all the tests you want.
TeFiLeDo
That'd splitt comments. And I could confuse people who upgrade or downgrade, for example if they have browser bookmarks.
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Carl Mason
As far as the Notifications page goes, I don't have any Notifications for your material, at all. Not for as far back as January at least. I just have to remember that I am subscribed to you and periodically check your listing on my Recents page. Usually several bubbles down. Oh, well, that's gold tier for ya.
Popsleo
I don’t know if this would be to much effort, but you could make different uploads of the chapter for silver, gold, and platinum, though I don’t know if you could keep higher tiers from being spammed by the release of old chapters for lower tiers
Kwame Speller
The only important question there is, is what time zone do you post in on Tuesday's.
pfreya
The behavior you describe for gold tier is how patreon handles it, for me at least; posts are indexed by their original posting date, but emails and mobile push notifications are correctly timestamped as when the post is unlocked. It’s rough that Patreon *still* doesn’t have a “view as {tier}” feature. Feel free to give a shout if you ever need to verify patron client behavior
Madgearz
"I haven't actually made any bonus content yet, and I don't plan to ever make a large amount of bonus content, but I do intend to make some bonus content." I got an idea for bonus content: - An explanation of the different soul structures Carlos and Amber have and how they interact with one another, along with any of the other characters who's soul structures we know about. - Spell structures and their known functions and limitations. - Diagrams to accompany the different explanations. (I'd be happy to help with this, lol) - A map of the country, and where everyone is known to be. Locations would be easy to update each week. "I can't easily test such details myself because Patreon does not have a feature for viewing my own page from the perspective of a specific tier of patrons." Gold tier: Chapter 55 says it came out February 20; it was March 12 for me (i think). PS: Love the story so far, btw. If I win the lottery, I'll sign up for Orichalcum. ＼(^-^)／
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Yeah, i sometimes get a notification for an older chapter on my phone even þough im platinum tier
