I was in the process of writing code for the backup Craig when it occurred to me to ask the patrons a rather obvious question: Do y'all actually *want* a backup Craig? Craig's been pretty reliable for months, so maybe my effort would be better put elsewhere.
If there's a consensus among patrons, I'd be happy to replace the (met) backup goal with the zencastr alternative discussed in the previous post and start work on that instead. It would have to be a pretty clear consensus though, because I don't want to renege without due cause. I'll put a simple up-down vote on #patron-information in the Craig support server, so if you care about one of these features, make sure you vote there—comment below if you'd like to add more detail or whatnot.
Clarification for the curious:
The backup Craig goal is to have a second bot running largely the same software as Craig but hosted elsewhere, so that if one goes down, the other will (likely) still work. I hope most people who care are doing their own backup recording, but it would be nice to have a backup that's also multi-track.
The *castr-alternative idea is a (patron-only?) web app associated with Craig recordings that would allow people to submit tracks recorded raw off the microphone, without Discord's processing, but with Craig's careful audio sync. For people who really care about getting the audio from the source to do their own work on it, such a feature could be valuable.
The former is in a sense a more "pure" patron goal since the reason for it being at a dollar value was that it costs money (as well as some time). The latter costs time.
Note that these ideas don't conflict with each other; whichever one I don't do will just become another "stretch" goal.