Many people have noticed that despite being told we’d be uploading old content, and updating the site…nothing has really happened. We haven’t forgotten, but the transition from Dad doing everything, to unexpected family takeover, was (shocker!) not as smooth as we hoped.<\/p>\n
The haphazardly decided upon system and attempted delegation of tasks looked like this:
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Mom:<\/strong> Handles the Patreon, and does the site upkeep. She is the only competent programmer of the household, so the job automatically fell to her.<\/p>\n Bay(me):<\/strong> Writes articles on Fridays, and posts the DM of the Rings for Sunday mornings.<\/p>\n Peter:<\/strong> Writes articles when the mood takes him.<\/p>\n Issac:<\/strong> Puts together the remaster comic.<\/p>\n Elliot:<\/strong> Does editing for everyone.<\/p>\n This system has been flawed for many reasons. But the long and short of it is; Mom has no time or energy to actually work on the site or Patreon. It’s stressful to her, and not something she actually wants to be doing, but she just got put in that position because she was left with control of all the money to do with the site. Some people donate to support the family, and some donate to keep the site running, and everything was stressful and ambiguous.<\/p>\n The monthly budget looked something like this:<\/p>\n Mom:<\/strong> $400<\/p>\n Me<\/strong>:$400<\/p>\n Issac:<\/strong> $80<\/p>\n Domain and general upkeep costs:<\/strong> $20 ($250\/yr)<\/p>\n The money to Mom went towards making sure she could still pay the bills, and the money to me and Issac was for content creation and keeping things running. The donations we received directly after paid for his funeral, and our move back to my hometown.<\/p>\n But now, a year later, Mom is on her feet enough to not need the passive income, and it’s not worth the stress of the things she’s supposed to be doing for it.<\/p>\n The Patreon is being moved fully to me, and the budget put in my hands to operate.<\/p>\n I want to hire someone to move the site to a more stable platform that will require less constant upkeep. WordPress just isn’t keeping up with this place anymore, and it hasn’t been for a long time. I’m in contact with some Squarespace designers to get a quote for migration, although I shudder to think what it will look like.<\/p>\n I want to pay Issac way better for his work on the comic, he’s earned it, and $20 per strip doesn’t feel fair to me. I have a few people I’m speaking with on more content creation, my father-in-law is an old fan and commenter here, and I’d like to pull him on board if he’s willing. If not, I have other family available. We are a whole lot of nerds.<\/p>\n This isn’t going to be immediate, Patreon pays out next month for me, and we’re in the middle of getting a second car so we can stop turning down shifts at our various jobs because we don’t have a ride to them. I could potentially crowdfund it Something Dad would have never done, and I’m painfully aware would be a huge break from norm<\/span><\/span>, or, much more likely, I’ll be saving everything I can of the Patreon income to migrate over as soon as we can.<\/p>\n You guys make saving this place possible, and I will be forever grateful for that. I’m hoping, either way, if we can be patient, I can pour a little more attention into this place, now that I have the long-term resources to do so.<\/p>\n