If I could interject an interlude of indeterminate interpersonal interplay into the interim of our interminable waiting process, I’ve intercepted a message which it seems I need to internalize. Pardon the interruption if it is not of interest.
One of life’s great questions is how many licks it takes to get to the center of a tootsie pop. But one of life’s other great questions, it seems, is how many times people have to tell me something before it gets through my thick skull. :innocent:
I’ve been dragging my feet about this, but I hear you. And I finally Did The Thing.
I haven’t been able to get any responses from Fritz since last year though, so I don’t really have a way to do a team donation thing… but I can at least set up a way for people to help me out a bit.
As it turns out, safely receiving money like this is more complicated than it might seem. So I went with Patreon, since they eliminate most of the risk and also provide some ways for people to be more actively engaged.
They use a subscription model, which is great for those who want to stay involved but a little awkward for one-time gifts. For a one-time thing, it means subscribing, waiting until one charge has happened, and then unsubscribing. Which is totally okay; I just hope it won’t be too much of an inconvenience for people. Fortunately, it happens on the first of each month, which is coming up soon so people won’t have to remember very long.
For people who would like to stay involved though, it has its own system for news and polls and messages and such, to make sure the people who really care are heard. And that can be used however people want. Maybe that could be a filtered feed for updates which are interesting or useful, maybe a place to tell me what to do next, maybe something else entirely. But you can be sure I’ll be paying close attention to what people there want.