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December Update!!

🕑 Added 2024-12-03 12:45:38 +0000 UTC

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Kiwi76

Thanks for the additional details. As I said, I wouldn't have minded if these price updates were effective for everyone immediately. I just wanted to know if the old prices had an end date because surprise price updates are never fun. Announced price changes ahead of time are fine.

吠千ホーセンHOCEN

Members that are supporting to the current tier before the update, prices won't change unless they switch tiers. It was an advanced option given. By switching between tiers would refresh it to the date. So had a thought that could somehow be a benefit to my loyal members. How long you asked, until they decided to switch. Up till now, new members still able to access to older contents/posts. I can't keep them for myself forever, I had experienced lost 2 laptop devices among the journey along with the working files within. Thought of third-party paywall like Gumroad, they had advised risks of getting banned or removed. Plus, in case of former subscriber want to re-access the files, some would have to repurchase it. And thank you for understanding. Appreciate for pointing out the details I could've miss. Commission part isn't official. Just a few comes after several months, mostly through Discord.

Kiwi76

I'm a bit confused, I guess because you say existing members are staying at the same price unless they manually change tier, so the announcement for this almost seems aimed more at people who aren't current supporters? If people are "grandfathered in" (and sorry if the term is unfamiliar to you in your language), then for how long? I guess confirmation/more details would be helpful. Regardless, I think the price changes are reasonable, and I would think that even if existing supporter's pricing was going up a bit. After all, inflation exists and was rough on most of the world in the last many years, so most things have gone up to match that. Besides, you do (or at least did last I checked) offer access to your entire back catalogue for supporters, which becomes increasingly generous on your part as your catalogue grows. While many other artists offer this too, not all of them do. Some only allow you to go back X amount of months, often from the start date of support. The ones who allow full access usually aren't the ones with a long running back catalogue like yours. I don't want to come off as making suggestions, but that seems like it might lose you potential supporters (example why, people join for one month, get everything, and leave). That leaves the question of how to make old content available otherwise. The most common one was Gumroad, but well... Gumroad banned that content unfortunately. But yeah, no complaints here on those prices, regardless of if or when they kick in for old subscribers. Of course I can only speak for myself. Unrelated but I never knew you did commissions either. You might have announced it at one point and I just never noticed for whatever reason.