hey pals!
first I want to say thank you all so much for your patience with all the changes in the Patreon, we've finally got everyone's billing updated, so going forward anyone in the old sticker club tiers will be charged the new price! all benefits in sticker club months will be based on all time support! If you think you're still waiting on a refund from getting charged the old price, send me a dm soon as you can!
I don't know what made me want to make a baseball kirby design, but I'm really pleased w the style of the smash style vfx, and I think it'll be a really cool holofoil bonus sticker for folks who have supported $100+ in the past along with the sticker sheet and die cut from previous buckets!
I haven't worked out a solid online system for members to validate their all time support that hasn't introduced some security issues. Ultimately this would be best handled on Patreon's side as they maintain user verification and security.
Continue reading for random ideas for an HTML static site to let users see their all time support:
I'm hoping to work something out that will make validating your all time support as immediate and transparent as possible, but the best option I currently have in mind is to run an html front end with an encrypted database of every user's email and all time support. Users could enter their email address which would then enter the database as a decryption key to return their all time support and current tier. This of course presents the security flaw that any malicious actor that might have your email address and wants to know how much you've supported my Patreon would have no trouble seeing that info. I think for 90% of members, this isn't a concern, but if even 1% of users are concerned about their spending being exposed to anyone with their email address, then I need to find a more secure solution. Alternatively I could host an email bot that receives requests from the html front end to send a key directly to the email associated with your Patreon account. This way all you need is access to your email address to decrypt your all time support from the html frontend. However this will require me to host a constant web service to process the emails rather than just hosting the static site on github.
Honestly I'm still a huge novice when it comes to this web dev stuff. I've read a little bit into the Patreon API, and it looks promising, but I'll need to see how well I can implement it into a github page. If you're a webdev/security specialist with interest in helping out, I'd love to collaborate and buy you a coffee!
Okay, thanks for listenin to the yapping! I'll be back soon with some more fun projects and sticker club stuff!