Explanation of gold tier post dates and notifications (Patreon)

I'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.