Always Moving Forward (Patreon)

My commitment this year was to try to take things to the next level. Try to make the videos better, try to make the rewards better, try to engage better, try to clear the backlog better. Things have been a little rough, but I've not let that dissuade me from this goal, and I appreciate that you haven't allowed these setbacks to cause your interest to wain.

In January, the rewards package expanded. The next step is to make this more convenient for you and me. I recognize that the system that we started with has wound up becoming a complication: previous rewards aren't easy to find, file sizes are huge, releases are sometimes delayed by setbacks on one or two items, and those of you who join during a month sometimes don't get all your benefits. 

I could use Patreon's system, as I know other people do, include rewards there with tags and everything. But I'm leery about doing that; as we saw with the (thankfully aborted) change to the pricing system, my control over how things work here is limited. If something changes or malfunctions, there's nothing I can do but try to clean up the mess.

So the plan I've hit upon is to do two things.

1) The rewards will now be on the website for you to access. I've attached a screenshot of the work in progress on it, but the gist is that you can easily get to whatever it is you want. You can also download/access only what you want rather than taking the whole thing. And the plan is to keep each page up for one year before adding the rewards to the archive, so getting to your previous pages should be easier.

2) Rather than dumping all the rewards up front, I'll be releasing them throughout the month. The webpage will include a projected date for each item. This will allow me to keep things coming to you rather than having to hold up everything because I want more time to work on a background video, for instance.

I've been working on this in my downtime, and I'm hoping to have this ready for you by tomorrow.

Thanks very much for keeping the show going! It would truly be impossible without all of you!