State of the Patreon - PLEASE READ AND RESPOND
So this update is to gauge interest and opinions on what the Patreon should be moving forward. I would like everyone who is able to try to respond or at least vote in the poll.
The patreon has now been running for roughly 16 months and I have a better idea of what I am able to accomplish on a monthly basis and how it affects various things such as reading order updates, site updates, new reading orders, etc. So moving forward there are basically two ways for the Patreon to go, although I am always open to other suggestions:
The Patreon continues as is. Basically a new reading order each week and other things like site updates, fixing mistakes, updating past reading orders, etc happens if I happen to have free time.
Rather then the focus being on a new reading order per week the Patreon moves to being a general support for the website. Rather than focusing on getting out a new reading order every week I focus on updating and improving the website. This means correcting reading order errors, updating the character reading orders, updating things like the Marvel and Spawn reading orders, adding new parts to the Master Reading Orders, etc.
In my opinion I would rather go with Option 2 but I want to poll the existing patreon members to see what your opinions are. There will be another version of this post going up for everyone so I can gauge the interest of non-Patreon members as well.
In practice Option 1 would look like the Patreon and website basically do now, generally a new character reading order per week and other updates being pretty sparse.
In practice Option 2 would drop the weekly reading order. New reading orders would still come out, like when a character is debuting in an upcoming Movie or TV show, or when a comic event finishes, but they would be more rare. However other updates would become much more frequent. For starters my first two priorities would be updating the Star Wars reading order and Part 15 of the Marvel Master Reading Order. There would also be a monthly Patreon post detailing things that had been worked on that month. New reading orders would still debut first as Patreon exclusives.
Feel free to leave comments on this post but at least try to vote in the poll. You can also comment in the discord if you want. And if you have alternate ideas or other things you would like to see I would love to hear about them as well.