{"id":78,"date":"2014-07-10T17:55:09","date_gmt":"2014-07-11T01:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spudlink.net\/?p=78"},"modified":"2014-07-10T17:58:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T01:58:19","slug":"patreon-in-june-milestone-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Patreon in July: Milestone Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can\u00a0hardly believe that the Patreon<\/a> experiment has been\u00a0going as well as it has.<\/p>\n

That said, I’ve been pretty slow to get around to those two milestone promises I made back when we got started. But there are reasons for that, as well as bonus complications to talk about, so\u00a0I will elaborate upon them now.<\/p>\n

Milestone #2: No Webcomic Ads<\/h2>\n

There are still ads on the Friendship is Dragons website! Why?\u00a0Well, because I’m waiting for one last payout, so what little money I’ve earned doesn’t go to waste.<\/p>\n

Yeah, simple as that.<\/p>\n

Basically, Google Adsense doesn’t pay out until you earn over $100, and the banner ad on FiD generally earns me about $45 a month. So it takes three months for me to get a payout. A welcome payout for sure, but if I’m only getting one measly payout every three months, it starts to get annoying.<\/p>\n

Thus, around the 22nd of this month, I’ll collect my payout and then remove the ads from Friendship is Dragons.<\/p>\n

Milestone #1: Proper Podcast Hosting<\/h2>\n

This one’s a bit more complex, and is part of the reason I’m putting the word out today.<\/p>\n

When we started Fallout is Dragons, well, I didn’t know much about podcasting. Since we passed this milestone, I’ve spent just about all month researching\u00a0everything<\/em> about podcasting – file sizes, formats, hosting services, best practices, sites to avoid,\u00a0RSS\u00a0feeds, iTunes policies, the whole\u00a0nine yards.<\/p>\n

To summarize what I’ve learned: One, just putting links on Dropbox is not RSS feed friendly<\/a> and that means we have to rehost everything, and two, we have a very large podcast on our hands here.<\/p>\n

Because we’re recording a tabletop game, our episodes tend to last 2.5-3 hours. Even at really low\u00a0bitrates, each file averages about 80 MB an episode. Publishing three or four episodes a month means we’re asking for a lot in monthly storage space.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, I think we’ve found a nice new home on libsyn. I’ve just started it up and you can even grab the first few episodes on there now<\/a>. But I’ve already reached my sizeable monthly limit with just those first five files.<\/p>\n

We don’t have to wait for it to play catch-up over the next several months, though. Libsyn does\u00a0provide a migration service where they’ll approve and archive whatever you need for a one-time fee of $0.05 per MB. To get everything up to Session 16, that comes to about $61.<\/p>\n

Sadly, this month’s Patreon funding (thanks for that, by the way) has already either been spent or preemptively allocated towards many other things. I’d rather not wait a whole month to get Fallout is Dragons up to speed\u00a0in its new host, so the remaining option is to crowdfund it.<\/p>\n

Sumarry\/TL;DR: If you’ve got a few bucks to spare, consider donating to my Paypal<\/a> (not my Patreon). If I can crowdfund at least $70 (adjusted for fees), I can get all of Fallout is Dragons up on libsyn as a legitimate podcast.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Otherwise, thanks for supporting me, either financially or just by looking at the stuff I make. Continuing to be creative is what keeps me sane these days, and your encouragement\u00a0reassures me that I’m not wasting\u00a0your time.<\/p>\n

P.S. I’m open to suggestions when it comes to extra stuff to offer on the Patreon page (new Milestones or Rewards, or rather the Milestones-as-Rewards scheme I’ve been using so far). I’m still very new to this whole shebang.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I can\u00a0hardly believe that the Patreon experiment has been\u00a0going as well as it has. That said, I’ve been pretty slow to get around to those two milestone promises I made back when we got started. But there are reasons for that, as well as bonus complications to talk about, so\u00a0I will elaborate upon them now. … Continue reading Patreon in July: Milestone Updates<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comic","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spudlink.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}