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Community Based Feature Unlocking
🕑 Added 2021-02-15 02:04:28 +0000 UTCHowdy everyone,
I mentioned in the past that the way that the Patreon operates was going to change, and have finally settled on a solution.
What will happen is we shall shift to a community based feature unlocking schedule- where features that are paywalled will become accessible to everyone when we hit the target- i.e. the GMBinder Export feature is currently a $5 Patron only feature, but when we hit 100 patrons, I'll remove the flag for that, so any and everybody can access it (at the time of writing, I haven't implemented any hard paywall, as that's next to impossible to run on a static webpage, but plan to implement a password based system that'll at least create some friction for non-payers trying to circumvent the system).
This means that there's a great incentive for people that aren't Patrons to help profligate the generator, and the numbers show that there's quite a few people that don't mind kicking in a dollar or two. Patreon loves those sorts of metrics, and I think it's a decent compromise between trying to incentivise what is ultimately a tip jar, and avoiding the all-too-common paywalling of all of the good stuff.
If you want to access the paywalled features without paying for it, you will still be able to do that- just downloading the generator and running it locally will work fine for it. However, my analytics suggest that this is only a small subset of people (did you know that you can disable the Patreon button in the side? It's in the settings. Roughly two percent of people use it!) The intent is to create friction, but not obstacles- if you want to get at it, you'll be able to, but I don't want anyone that "needs" to access it to be unable to :) inconvenient to pirate, but easy!
