Completely forgot to post this here so this comment may be a bit outdated but oh well.

Thanks again to my current Patreon supporters. The support is greatly appreciated. If you would like to show your support my Patreon can be found at http://www.Patreon.com/Incognitymous

You can find my latest works at http://jabarchives.com/main/profile/incognitymous

Did this one a little while ago but never posted it publicly. It was on my site temporarily but anyone who has visited my site today may have noticed I tore down the directories. After finally having access to my payment/protection tools I realized I need to redo a lot of my directories, so I tore them down for ease of export so that I may work on my site locally for a few days. I'll try and have it back ASAP, but hopefully during this process I'll be able to better customize my galleries with some of the help/knowledge I've received over the past few weeks.

Now for a quick copy/paste of a Patreon update containing some good but equal if not more bad new.

tl;dr: My site will likely cost $15/month due to extra expenses on the end of my host and myself. I will be keeping my site separate from this Patreon but I may include my Patreon content on my site due to the difference in price. I may begin to reduce resolution of free images to increase incentive to join my site, as well as move my free gallery to my site instead of at its current location to increase traffic to my site. I will also be setting up a Patreon-integrated Discord channel soon exclusively for patrons.

If nothing stated above interests/concerns you or do not otherwise care for further details you may stop reading here.

I'd like to take a minute to explain where things stand with my site. For any new patrons that may not be aware, I like to draw different content that is not permitted here on Patreon. As most others are likely aware this caused Patreon to close my page around this time last month. I had found a host, purchased a domain and been working on getting a site up and running since then. I had slowed down most progress on the site as I had the overall layout mostly decided, so all I was really doing was behind the scenes coding to get things better optimized and to figure out how I could implement certain features. I had to wait for my registration/payment processing system to be made available to me by my host so there have been some steps I have been avoiding due to not knowing how the two would interact. I now have access to these features and thus will be trying to get my site up and running within the next week or so, but sadly in doing so I will still have to have this slightly slower progress of about a page every 2 days.

For the bad news, I'm pretty sure I will not be able to keep my site as cheap as I had hoped, and I know for a fact I will not be able to do so at the start. I'd like to keep to the values I use here on Patreon, but I will likely have to increase to around the $15 range. I am quickly learning that there is a very good reason why artists, even those that make several thousands of dollars a month, stick with Patreon as opposed to getting their own domain. Website design/maintenance is a pain if you don't want to stick with what generic templates offer, but mostly there is the issue of additional expenses. Patreon pushes a lot of money with a lot of creators and is thus able to charge individual users less than it would cost to host elsewhere. Hosting the site privately will result in extra costs such as server/bandwidth expenses, payment processing, more limited payment options, and sadly we will suffer from inevitable scammers hitting us with chargebacks.

All together the hit that I will be taking to income will be almost 400% of the portion that I shell out by using Patreon. There is also the fact that I will not be able to use PayPal as a payment option, and even for a lot of payment processors that allow pornographic content I will still be further limited by the specific type of content I wish to host. It is becoming increasingly difficult to support the kind of content I wish to provide and thus there are many sacrifices I am being forced to make in order to do so.

Due to these factors, unless my site really picks up far more than anticipated I will still be maintaining this Patreon. As decided previously I will be keeping my site in no way affiliated with Patreon to keep within Patreon's Community Guidelines/ToS. However, due to my site costing nearly double what my Patreon does it will possibly have access to all content, whereas Patreon will for sure have access to only Patreon exclusive content. I'm still contemplating my options on this as if my site builds up quickly enough I may set Patreon to a per page system as opposed to a per month system, where you only pay based on the amount of pages I release and you can set a limit to how much you are willing to pay total in a month. Doing so I would feel less guilty if I had a slow month on Patreon as a result of focusing on the new site since you would only have to pay based on my output.

The main consideration when factoring if I want to include Patreon content on my site is how quickly the site builds up but also how I decide to handle free content in the future. At this point in time most people agree that my free content is still quite fine in resolution, so if I DID choose to keep Patreon content OFF of my site I would feel a bit more comfortable with it as my content is all free eventually anyway. The subscriptions for my content is more intended for early access to help support what I make. I still do not want a concrete paywall so how I handle free content is something to consider. If I DO decide to keep Patreon content ON my site I would feel the need to further increase incentive for people to pledge to either location.

Discussing the free content with my users on Discord it seemed unanimous that people agree I should decrease the resolution of free content to 25% in these cases. This would make free content 60% of what is now. 25% is also the expected print size quality of a 300 DPI image anyway, which is the current resolution that I work with. In doing so I would keep images at 100% on Patreon and my site, but 25% publicly. While doing this I have considered dropping any other galleries outside of my site, such as my Jab gallery, to have my content in a more localized place as well as increase traffic to my site. My images on TJA get thousands of views over time so I feel this traffic would be better directed at my own site.

Onto the topic of Discord, I will likely be looking for patron feedback throughout everything from this point forward. For this purpose I will be looking into setting up a Patreon-integrated Discord channel with bots and such for the purpose of votes and discussion. I will give further status on this as they are implemented, but by requiring accounts to be patrons I should be able to setup polls with minimal risk of people cheating the results.

I'll continue to make new announcements as information becomes available.