July 2020 update

Hello!

Below is an image of the earnings for the BSMG Patreon, with an explanation underneath.

Breakdown

On the top you see the total amount earned by the Patreon for this month, and the total amount earned from the bounties and events tiers.

Below that, you see the costs that are subtracted from the total.
Currently this includes the $200 server costs, and the $50 going to Assistant from the single Patron in the "Letters" tier.

After subtracting the total costs from the total earned, we are left with the surplus to be used for the Bounties and Events.
$274 - $250 = $24

This is then split proportionally based on how much money is being earned by each tier.

• Bounties patrons account for ~75% of the funds, and thus get $18.05
  
• Events patrons account for the other ~25% and take the remaining  $5.95
  

These funds are then added to the total amount earned by each tier from the past few months.

Bounties

Total funds for bounties: $80.24

As a reminder, we plan on letting you vote on which bounty to assign.

Here is the current list of possible bounties we have come up with: 

• CustomPlatforms: Custom platforms in main menu. 
  
• Enhanced Stream Chat: YouTube chat integration. While this is a much requested feature, it is unlikely to happen. The free API is not enough to handle the amount of data required for this to work for a reasonable amount of time. In a previous implementation, the API would stop sending messages after the quota was reached.

Please send us suggestions for possible bounties!

Events

Total funds for events: $28.78

We do not currently have any events planned!
For now these funds are being set aside for future events.

Other notes

The BSMG Patreon is repurposed from Assistant's old Patreon, and there are still some loyal subscribers who haven't moved over to the new tiers, so it may appear that the money earned from the Bounties + Events + Letters tiers don't add up to the total amount.

Do you think we should use the bounties and events funds for something else?What would that be?