BETTER CONVERSATION ON THE INTERNETZ, HERE WE COME. (Patreon)

hello my dear patrons....

i am seriously beat. 

the record get mastered in NYC today, i'm in LA with family, and i spent until 2 am working on last-minute changes to the album. i've never gotten anything in so down to the wire. GOOD NEWS: the album is literally a triumph. i am so close to it right now that i can't see straight but there is a part of me that knows it's the best thing i've ever made. GOOD NEWS #2: jherek and i worked with extra musicians in LA to add all sorts of extras that will go between songs...and many of those elements will be on the vinyl only. basically the good news is that the album is weird as all get out and we made it even weirder and if you thought you knew what to expect from a new amanda palmer album you DO NOT. it's....special.

i am so tired.

hug me please.

........

NOW, some AMAZING news:

some of you may have gotten an email from patreon today notifying you of a new reward addition to your patreon, asking you if you want to claim your "reddit flair".

YES. YOU DO.

this is a really special thing that i am doing with patreon, it isn't available to all patron pages, just us - and some other beta people - at the moment.

yes we are awesome.

here's what that's about.

if this all seems too nerdy for you - don't worry. let the early adopter nerds here play around with it (and me, and each other) and we'll circle back once everything's groovy and try to explain it to the group.

for those of you who don't know what reddit is (IT IS POSSIBLE), it's basically a tool for discussion on the internet. it's a forum. it's a place to discuss things more easily than here, using pictures, and threads, etc. i have a "so-caled subreddit (i.e. a forum) at the address "r/amandapalmer". 

patreon is testing an integration/partnership with reddit to allow creators (me) to connect their "subreddit" (i.e. forum/discussion page) to their patreon page (and allow me to offer special "patron reddit badges" as part of our reward tiers - who knows how that will work but we will figure it out together). 

so now, when you post on the "r/amandapalmer" subreddit it will show as a patron.

this is one way patreon are adding and testing new community features and since that's something i'm ALWAYS asking them for, they asked me if i wanted to test this one out. i said HELL YES. so here we are.

i can not overstate how frustrating it is for me that everybody's community discussion takes plac not so much here on patreon, but over at facebook. i have nothing against the community (i fucking cherish this community), but facebook as a corporation really frustrates me, and it's always made me sad that our best option (because let's face it...) for deep community connection and discussion is at the current facebook patron-only group. i am not asking you guys to stop using it...USE IT. it's a glorious place and has done so many things for so many people, including me. but let's also experiment with this and see where and what it gets us.

and if facebook dies an sudden ugly death (who knows, right?) - we will have options :)

let's just see how it goes

you can add your reddit user name to your patreon profile by clicking clicking the link to "connect to reddit" from the email patreon sent and follow the directions there. it looks like this:

i don't know if this will work on mobile phones, but give it a try. on a computer, it'll open a pop-up to sign into reddit and connect it to your patreon account. do it.

right now you can connect your reddit account to patreon by vising the "thank you" page after you pledge, or after you've updated your reward tier selection.

once you connect your accounts, from here on, when you post in the r/amandapalmer subreddit you'll see a patron badge next to your name, indicating their you're a patreon. here's what that looks like if you're hayley !:

to see the badge on reddit, make sure you're viewing reddit's redesign and not their old design. you can change this by going to the bottom of your reddit preferences page: https://www.reddit.com/settings/

we're testing this reddit/patreon integration. REMEMBER: it's in beta, so there may be kinks to iron out. 

for example, when this first launched, patreon was directing you to the wrong subreddit link. yikes. that's fixed now though. whew.

we are the VANGUARD, BETCHES!!!!!

https://www.reddit.com/r/amandapalmer

if you have any trouble connecting leave a comment here so we can give feedback to patreon. you can also shoot hayley an email at patronhelp@amandapalmer.net. feel free to hit me in the comments with feedback, too.

GO TO REDDIT AND TALK!!!!

i am literally on family vacation right now, which means it's the worst time for me to be hopping on the internet and chatting excitedly on reddit, but i'll check in ASAP. 

nerds unite.

hit me with any questions below, hayley and i are reading.

xx

afp

------THE NEVER-ENDING AS ALWAYS---------

1. if you’re a patron, please click through to comment on this post. at the very least, if you’ve read it, indicate that by using the heart symbol.

2. see All the Things i've made so far on patreon: http://amandapalmer.net/patreon-things

3. join the official (MAYBE NOT FOREVER) AFP-patron facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/afpland

4. new to my music and TOTALLY OVERWHELMED? TAKE A WALK THROUGH AMANDALANDA….we made a basic list of my greatest hits n stuff on this lovely page: http://amandalanda.amandapalmer.net/

5. general AFP/patreon-related questions? ask away, someone will answer: patronhelp@amandapalmer.net