Patreon vs. YouTube: Results Are In! (Patreon)

Patrons,

Hey, check out our new header photo (taken by Danny Unknwn)! Isn't T.K. Coleman a great addition to the pod?!

Okay, on to the real update...

Last week, we asked every patron who subscribes to the video version of our Private Podcast whether they wanted us to continue using Patreon's native player or revert back to private YouTube links (results). Because of its significant advantages (higher-quality video, ability to play songs, seamless in-app play), you voted to stay with Patreon's player—so that's what we're doing, with a caveat...

The main concern was that, at the moment, Patreon's player does not yet contain closed captioning. We've received only two requests for captions, but we want to be inclusive to any hearing-impaired viewers. So, we spoke with the fine folks at Patreon, and they informed us that they plan to rollout closed captions in the coming months.

In the meantime, Patreon's engineering team shared some great free resources for enabling live captioning on any platform that has audio. While the Patreon team works on building this feature into their native tool, any patron in need of captioning will immediately find one of these useful:

Google Chrome Live Captions

• You can enable live captions in Google's Chrome browser through the browser settings.
• Requirements: Chrome web browser.

WebCaptioner 

• WebCaptioner is a website that can use your computer audio output to display live captions via their browser application.
• Requirements: WebCaptioner works on a desktop computer using the Chrome web browser but can caption audio wherever your microphone/computer is picking it up.

Android Live Caption App

• Google Play has an Android application that can display live captions on your mobile device as a second screen.
• Requirements: Android mobile phone compatible with the Live Caption app. This app will caption whatever audio your mobile phone microphone picks up.

Joyous times!

—Joshua, Ryan, T.K.