Important reminder: Charge-upfront billing (Patreon)

This is just a reminder post about an upcoming change that I announced recently 

I'm going to be moving my Patreon to Charge-upfront billings soon. What this means is new patrons will be charged immediately on their first pledge, and then at the start of every month going forwards. It also means if you upgrade your pledge, you will be charged the difference immediately.

The main reasons I am changing this are:

• I want to be able to provide the 1:1 help associated with my highest tier immediately, rather than telling patrons to wait a full month before I can help them.
• I want to avoid confusion where patrons wonder why they are not in the credits for new videos after pledging, etc. With charge up front I could know to update the credits list for every new video and it would be easier to filter the downloaded data from patreon.
• I have many resources, itch.io source code, etc that can be accessed immediately on pledging, and while I have run an honor system until now I want to close the loophole. I am unfortunately not really able to tell if many people have been exploiting this (I don't review all of my patreon/itch records closely enough) but I have certainly seen it happen in the past.

If you were considering upgrading your pledge it stands to reason that it is worth doing so now prior to this change while the old system is still in effect. As afterwards, upgrading will charge you the difference for the rest of that month. 

I am currently planning to change the system on the 28th of this month. My hope being to minimize the window of time where anyone looking to upgrade can be caught out and end up having to pay more for less time, etc.

Thank you all again for your support of my work.

-S