TRANSPARENCY (Patreon)

For those catching up, I've launched a second site for Delta Green subscribers, now available at both https://delta-green.ghost.io and www.patreon.com/detwiller. Both sites will be maintained identically and indefinitely.

For the second time in as many years, and despite previous assurances, Patreon now requires a switch from per-post to monthly payments. As a result, the Delta Green Patreon will mirror the pricing of the https://delta-green.ghost.io site: $6 a month (or $15 for higher contributions), equivalent to the previous $1 per post (with 6 posts per month). The change will likely take effect on Patreon next month. I will post again before the switch over goes live.

Ghost.io is superior in many ways. For one, it offers a yearly payment option with a discount (get 1 month free when doing so), and second, instead of 5%, I am charged by Stripe 2.9%. Last, unlike Patreon, ghost.io is not between me and my payments, I deal instead directly with Stripe — a huge, stable and reputable service that (unlike Patreon) is not known for its fickleness.

So, on to some numbers from ghost. It's been 3 days since the www.delta-green.ghost.io site went live.

• 61 subscribers have signed up on www.delta-green.ghost.io.
• 41% have paid annually upfront (they get a free month by doing this).
• 59% have paid monthly.
• This totals $2,659.73 CAD upfront and $394 USD monthly recurring income.
• 51 have signed up for the Delta Green Clearance Tier ($6 USD a month).
• 10 have signed up for the A-Cell Clearance Tier ($15 USD a month).
• 38 have signed up directly.
• 11 were referred from the Patreon.
• 2 were from Gmail or Google.
• I have moved over 85 posts from Patreon to ghost.io (I should have the whole site ported by September 1).

Overall, I count this as a resounding success. My motivation was to safeguard against a more and more unstable behaviour of Patreon. With ghost.io, in case Patreon turn up some day and go, "sorry, we take a 50% cut" — which seems far less fanciful than it once did — I can move whatever subscribers might follow me over to an already live ghost.io site.

I'd like to take a moment to thank those Delta Green agents that have, throughout these trials and tribulations, supported the conspiracy, on Patreon and ghost.io and in print. Your support is amazing and deeply (deeply) appreciated. With your help, more horrors of Delta Green have been loosed on the world...

Thank you.

Be seeing you...