Q&A for Club Bald Move
A_Ron_Hubbard
Cincinnati, OH
Jim and I announced our new, home grown crowd fan funding initiative, Club Bald Move today on TWD podcast. Our goal was to make it fan friendly, affordable, and easy to use and for us to maintain. We are eventually moving away from Patreon and Subbable to support all the features of those sites as well as much lower costs to you.
I'm sure people will have questions, so let's have them. I'm kind of self conscious about the multiple funding wagons we've had going, Kickstarter, Subbable, Patreon and now this, but this is pretty much the final destination. We were really all set to stick with Subbable and Patreon for the long haul, but there's a few things we couldn't do on those platforms, and ultimately there some things coming down the pikes from those channels that we were really leery of, so the time to start moving away from third party solutions we had no control over is now.
Thanks so much for everyone that has supported thus far, and I hope you guys will see this as an awesome value to get at a lot of bonus material and features you're actually interested in and entertained by. Anyway, I'm being longwinded again, let me know what you're thinking!
I'm sure people will have questions, so let's have them. I'm kind of self conscious about the multiple funding wagons we've had going, Kickstarter, Subbable, Patreon and now this, but this is pretty much the final destination. We were really all set to stick with Subbable and Patreon for the long haul, but there's a few things we couldn't do on those platforms, and ultimately there some things coming down the pikes from those channels that we were really leery of, so the time to start moving away from third party solutions we had no control over is now.
Thanks so much for everyone that has supported thus far, and I hope you guys will see this as an awesome value to get at a lot of bonus material and features you're actually interested in and entertained by. Anyway, I'm being longwinded again, let me know what you're thinking!
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Well, we're not sure about when we're ending Patreon or Subbable, just yet. Patreon is easy enough, but we want to give people time to cancel that and move over. Subbable we're not sure yet, for a variety of reasons which we'll talk soon, but the big reason is we want to make sure we can let people use their Subbable balances with Club Bald Move for doing the Commissioned Podcast stuff.
It should be very easy to access the new content. The content will be visible on the site, you just won't be able to watch the video/listen to the premium podcasts. If you click to view/listen/whatever, it will redirect you to the sign up page, or if you're a member and you're logged in, you can just access the content. And you'll also have VIP access to the forums instantly.
I have no idea how we'll actually transfer the balances, because that's not worked out yet. I can say that it could be as dirty as printing out a report that has people's balance and the manually entering that into the new system or crediting back a future purchase with the balance and marking it off. I know this part sounds a bit nebulous, and unfortunately I can't talk a lot about the Subbable deal for reasons which will become clear in a few weeks.
As far as cancelling Patreon, you could. As of today, all premium content will be posted to both places simultaneously, and we'll continue to do so until we sunset Patreon. I think if you cancel you still get everything until your monthly runs out, so that would insulate you against any bumps we might have on the Club Bald Move side.
Actually, I just looked through my email to figure out how to finally access ad-free podcasts and I realized I used to subscribe to Subbable and now I actually am on Patreon. I'm part dumbass apparently, but this should show you how confusing this is to us dumbasses. Also...how DO I get those ad-free feeds? I'm trying to reset my password to log in to the main site which is apparently different from forums.baldmove.com and it's not recognizing my email. Maybe I should take this off board and one of you can message me?
Edit: never mind... I see that you can enter your own price...
Two more questions though:
1. Would it be better for you guys for us to subscribe in one lump sum annually, or to do a monthly subscription?
2. Are we still working towards crowd sourced commissioned podcasts?
Happy to help ya'll however you want. Keep being fucking funny and please don't shit on Better Call Saul
Fuck it, I dont even use these forums so what do I care?
We don't have a page with the programming schedule, or actually we do, at calendar.baldmove.com, but we stopped using it after the whole Month of the Dead thing last year and now it appears to be broken. We will get it going again.