Heya.
So for a year and some change, we've been running this "Be a patron and get two chapters early across all the stories" deal, and I pivoted from the old system of "You get get see whatever the newest chapter of anything is a day or two early then it goes live" for a few reasons.
Firstly, I kinda felt like I was giving current patrons too little for their money. What I provide is entertainment, entertainment that will always eventually be posted for the public, and even a few dollars a month for entertainment with the wack modern economy can be too little a value for some. I can't give you anything real you can hold, I can't give you custom tailor-fit content, so I thought people would like the exclusivity bit. You know, you get to see more of the story than anyone else.
And secondly, I won't kid any of you, money factored into it. When patron numbers dipped amid inspiration slumps over the last year and some change, I wanted to reverse course on the losses and figured doing what every other fic writer/web novelist was doing might help. Did it help? No, not really. I've been keeping an eye on the numbers and it doesn't seem to have helped any. Whatever gains came from the change seems to have been offset by an equal number of losses. Or maybe it did nothing. I'm not a statistician
Being real, the change didn't feel all too good. Felt like I was selling out. It's also had the side effect of stifling patrons so they don't blurt spoilers in comment sections or in the discord server, which might also be hurting things.
Maybe you can see where I'm going with this.
I'm not going to change anything right away, but I would like to see what you all think, as this will effect you the most. For the patrons who joined after the change, when the 2 withheld chapters became standard, what I used to do was when I finished a chapter of something, I would post it for patrons to see first, then after 1-3 days, once patrons had their fill, it would go public. Nothing was withheld longer than that unless it was some one off, side thing. I'm wondering if we should go back to that, but that does involve me taking benefits of being subbed away, which I am loathe to do.
Let me know what you think below. This poll will run until Monday evening (9pm EST, Jan 26th)Thankee much,Fuggmann.