A Small Annoucement (Patreon)

Hello our dear patrons, 

We would like to let you know that you may notice a small change in our patron structure at the end of October. The current "Cobalt" Tier (with its commission request privilege) will wind down and its the current patrons will be requested to transfer to other Tiers starting in the month of November - no longer accepting new membership. This has been communicated to the existing (15 or so) members of Cobalt members already and is now being rolled out to all our pledging patrons.

This has been a difficult decision, given that Cobalt has been very popular and is credited with giving us a wide patronage/viewership base and that has kept savaster site, as a whole, successful. However, this attention has also become a challenge over the years due to limitation of time, as Saver saw growth in other non-Patreon projects while his health conditions have not been very optimal. It has been a regret that we have had to put newcomers seeking Cobalt membership on a waitlist that seemed to only grow, while it has become increasing difficult to even keep pace with the current three-month rolling commission cycle. Alternately, we could possibly have hiked up the pledge amount to curve demand, but that response seemed very blunt and alienating and was not something we wanted to pursue. Thus we have decided to pause and take a fresh start as far as commissions go. We haven't fine tuned our thoughts yet, but launching a new, simple platform with relatively small transaction costs seems like a very likely option. There will definitely be more to come on this front.

Cobalt members, 

As we are addressing the last of the current cycle commission requests, you have an option to do either of the following - as we cannot just relocate you from our end: a) transfer to another Tier; or b) continue to stay around in Cobalt, which will be renamed to "Honorary Cobalt" or something to demonstrate its nature has changed. And should not be able to transfer in time and get overly charged, no worries as we could refund you as needed. Please just let us know.

And...

Lastly, thank you for all your understanding and support. We cannot emphasize enough how we appreciate your patronage and that your presence is what drives us forward. In this turbulent and unpredictable times, may we have more of the 'breathtaking' and 'breathstopping' moments together. 

(And for those who are curious, the pic is young Eri)