Notifications Poll
Added 2024-09-09 23:06:30 +0000 UTCIn which you decide if the notifications will continue or will go away.
I have no dog in this fight. Honestly, I provide the notifications of lower tier chapter access to be nice. If they go away, my life would actually become a tiny bit easier because there would be one less task in it.
I'll let this run until tomorrow afternoon or there is a clear majority.
Comments
It's a two-sided problem. Granularity is the problem on MY side. Notifications are the problem on the OTHER side. I can't change anything in other people's settings, so I have to focus on what I can control which boils down to granularity or the lack thereof. I also can't change how well people understand and manipulate the settings in their dashboards.
Eric Dontigney
2024-09-10 20:32:02 +0000 UTCI'm not sure I understand the issue. If people want to turn off notifications for patreon posts, there is a setting in patreon where you can manage notifications based on who you are subscribed to. If the problem is the granularity of the notifications, then that makes more sense to me.
GreenB
2024-09-10 12:27:42 +0000 UTCI actually only use the notifications tab to keep up with Patreon posts, so I'd love to keep them.
Newbie_101
2024-09-10 02:02:44 +0000 UTCI think I assembled my last piece of furniture yesterday.
Eric Dontigney
2024-09-10 01:16:29 +0000 UTClol it certainly was, but I do appreciate the context. Shirtaloon does have an assistant that keeps track of his posts, heβs been open about that. Frankly I am amazed at your productivity and that youβre writing multiple stories simultaneously. Kudos to you. I hope you have a wonderful night and that youβre done putting together IKEA items π
Matt Schmauss
2024-09-10 00:45:53 +0000 UTCI do wish that their messaging/notification system was a bit more robust.
Eric Dontigney
2024-09-10 00:44:00 +0000 UTCI used to strive for supreme consistency and being super up front about when I thought chapters would post. Then, I missed on a day and got some very, very, very unfriendly comments about it. So, having learned my lesson, I no longer make any promises or predictions about when chapters will post. As for how other authors do it, I know that some of those authors have hired people specifically to do things like manage their Patreon pages and their discords. I don't know that that's the way Shirtaloon does it, but he might. If I were just handing chapters off, and it was entirely someone else's problem to make sure they got scheduled appropriately, I might handle things differently. As it stands, I'm a one-man show here on Patreon and over on Royal Road, which means I have to strive for what is efficient for the way my brain, emotional responses, and writing process work. I have actually thought about writing ahead, but that would ultimately make my life harder rather than easier. Why? Because I'd be constantly searching back in whatever my current document is for the right chapter to post today, rather than just copying and pasting the chapter I literally just finished. Again, other authors handle document management in a variety of ways. I personally know authors who write each chapter in its own individual document. I know some who use GitHub to deal with it. I'm (relatively) old school. I have one Word document that contains the entire book. I start on chapter one, page one, and write the whole thing until it's done. So, if I'm five or ten chapters ahead of what's most recently posted here, I'd have to do a search for the right chapter heading or scroll back 10,000 or 15,000 words to find the right chapter...every single day. Doing it once might not be annoying. Doing that permanently would get old very fast. I'm like anyone else. Having to do something I'd find irritating over and over and over again would ultimately make me angry, or I'd get passive-aggressive about it. Neither is a good outcome. So, that's more or less how we ended up with the system on here as it stands. I won't make promises about timing or set a schedule for posting because people get angry if I miss. Because migraines are both stupid and mysterious, I can't know ahead of time if I'm going to miss on a given day. I don't write ahead because writing ahead would ultimately make my life more complicated and annoying. And angry/annoyed writers tend to write less, rather than more. That was probably a lot more answer than you expected.
Eric Dontigney
2024-09-10 00:01:12 +0000 UTCI like the notifications bc I'm horrible at remembering schedules, even my own, so I like knowing I'll get a notification. But, if it's a serious hassle then I'll remember whenever I'm missing the story too much. π
Angela Roberts
2024-09-09 23:54:14 +0000 UTCIt's not hard for those that don't want notifications to turn them off for themselves. Please continue to send them out.
BigFun
2024-09-09 23:22:38 +0000 UTCHmm. Maybe take a week off, get a supply of chapters and post them at set times/days during the week. Shirtaloon does a nice job with that. By the way, no criticism or pressure. Iβm just enjoying your writing. Cheers
Matt Schmauss
2024-09-09 23:15:39 +0000 UTCIt's a shame Patreon is so lacking in several big areas that this cant more easily be an individual choice thing. Im not subbed to a "current" tier though ($10 one) so nothing shows up in my feed for this story except all-tier posts like these 2 just now. If the notifications go away, id have to just randomly check throughout the day/week and hope for chapters. No other way to easily see that I know of and im terrible at remembering release schedules.
Emily Gurnavage
2024-09-09 23:13:00 +0000 UTCYes, but I am not consistent. Sometimes, new chapters and fresh chapter access hit in the afternoon. Sometimes, they hit in the middle of the night.
Eric Dontigney
2024-09-09 23:10:50 +0000 UTCIf youβre consistent with when you release material, and let everyone know when that is, no one needs notifications.
Matt Schmauss
2024-09-09 23:08:26 +0000 UTCI check my patreon feed pretty regularly, fine by me if the notifications slow down/stop β€οΈ
Neal Callahan
2024-09-09 23:08:07 +0000 UTC
