What are your expectations with this Patreon?
Added 2022-06-07 13:45:52 +0000 UTCThe title basically says it all if you don't want to read my likely rambling thoughts, etc.
When I set this up there'd already been a beta tester group in place for some time & I didn't want to make this into a pay to beta test option. However it's come up a number of times now that that's what's expected.
The aim was for this purely to be a means of providing financial support irrespective of access to builds but if someone was a patron & we'd had some interaction then I'd be more than happy to also add them as a beta tester (which is how I tend to do beta tester access).
I have also looked at what could be done to get access from here integrated in some form with the forum which I use to manage beta access but that doesn't have a clean existing solution to do it afaict. So for now it's still a manual process reliant on having a WACUP forum account or I alternatively just roll my own solution & have 2 systems being managed.
However with how Patreon works, my concern is that automatic access to the betas is not something I want to do because they're often not 100% stable which is why they're limited access. The other issue is that it's possible to sign-up, get access & then not pay the pledge which a number have done & I don't think that's right but it's how this platform works.
So what is expected & what should I be looking at changing?
-dro
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Like I said in another reply above, whatever the amount it's all appreciated & just knowing that there are those out there that believe in the usefulness of what's being done & want to see it do well. So thank you back for that & to everyone else!
WACUP (WinAmp Community Update Project)
2022-06-29 20:32:11 +0000 UTCWhatever the amount it's all appreciated as I fully get that things are tough & money towards things like this are probably frivolous which is why I don't take it for granted.
WACUP (WinAmp Community Update Project)
2022-06-29 20:10:51 +0000 UTC
