Filipis
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I can hardly understand you, but from what I gather, this isn't a one time deal: you are changing the system of Patreon rewards, so that the highest-Tier supporters get the <latest version>, lower-Tier supporters get <latest version -1>, while the Public version is now always going to be <latest version -2>.?
Public version is coming out with the next ee update. The only difference is that public version is delayed once for 2-3 weeks. After that it goes back to regular schedule where i release latest EE and oldest ee update goes into public hands.
The reason for change was that when i introduced tiers i was green and didn't know that some people can't read and they subscribe for stuff expecting something else. Which is why 'member tier' supporters who should wait 7 days for latest update would write to me constantly that they supported me and got in return nothing.
Obviously i tried to explain how it works but half the time i got "this is scam", "I want booba" with instant unsub.
Now one could argue that they are in the wrong... and they are dejure wrong. But thinking about it from their pov, they support me and in fact get nothing until that 7 day wait goes away. So they are kind of right defacto. Plus every time i get pm i have to explain at length this stuff.
Which is why i made the change to use two EE versions. This way 'member tier' supporters always get something + latest after 7 days and since that change i got 0 new messages from member tier supporters which seems to fixed the issues.
Obviously with introduction of new ee, public version has to one time wait for additional 2-3 weeks till next release for which i am sorry.
After that one time wait, things go back to normal and public gets release every time new latest is released which is on average 2 times a month.
Is that right?
Frankly, you are the first dev I've seen that implemented this "dual" version system for their Patreons. Basically every other dev simply has the lower-Tier supporters wait longer for the latest version, not give them an intermediary version. An unnecessary complication.