So before I begin, I'd like to thank you guys for the feedback. The work i do here is a direct result of your support, so I absolutely want to keep you guys happy with how things are run here.
So let's go over the main issues that were brought up in the comments.
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1) Timed Exclusive content prevents instant sharing with friends who are not patrons.
- I don't really think sharing with a few friends is a real issue, i just want to post to my fa/ib/twitter and have that be the first major public location they're seen in. People have their buddy servers and they share shit all the time, I don't have a problem with that at all.
And I'd also like to remind people that Haven : Chapter 01 was always 1 or 2 pages ahead on patreon, and The Mouse Hole was 7 pages ahead the whole time.
Additionally, when I posted The Mouse Hole publicly, saying that it was 7 pages ahead here, support literally doubled up to around $550.
Timed exclusivity has been something I've done here, here and there, the whole time, and would only be really formalizing it, with this change.
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2) 4 weeks is too long. Maybe 1, or 2 weeks?
- I did some looking around at my peers' patreons, and saw that the general exclusivity time was 1 week or 1 month. Some creators further break it down by having different pledge amounts = different numbers of 'weeks early', but that sounds like a dreadful amount of busywork on my end, and would be kind of rude to existing $1 dollar tier supporters.
The reason I chose 4 weeks was related to that bit above, about Haven and Mouse Hole.
While I'm in the Finish phase of a comic, i can put out about 1 page per 2 days of patreon work. (if it's rendered like i typically render my comics. If i used the sketch session render, it'd be a faster turnaround but i don't think it'd really look nice enough for people to want to support it? I'm not sure)
At $600+ per month, I have 2 patreon days per week, which basically boils down to One Page Per Week. 4 weeks is 4 Pages Ahead here on patreon, and would be in the middle-ground between the 1 week ahead Haven was, and the 7 Weeks ahead that Mouse Hole was.
I should note that, while people really seemed to enjoy Haven, support here stayed about the same during its run. This tells me that just wanting to support further page creation / seeing one additional page now was not enough for most readers to jump on board, and I need to offer more.
One week is exactly what i was doing with Haven, and apparently it wasn't strong enough?
Having explained all this, I do want your opinions regarding this, still. I'm hesitant to do 2 weeks, since i don't think it's enough of a difference from 1 week, but, please do tell. I'm open to it.
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So, yeah! For at least a few months, I want to see if this makes a difference. And for those of you who are going to leave because of this change, I hope you still continue to enjoy the stuff I put out.
Thank you for being here either way.
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Also, i'm considering setting up a patron discord server. I'm not sure if that's something anyone would be interested in, but let me know your thoughts on that as well.