Hi Patrons,
I wanted to post an additional note to the Patrons only. Thanks for your continuing support!
As noted in my other post, we’ll go live again this month, but I’ll be posting from my archives while I wait on new content related to the Reno. Sorry about that, but there is a solution on the horizon.
The main point is that I am about the shake up the Tiers, I explain below. For now you’re going to lose a couple perks (Live Streams going public, Chat Community migrated to a public Discord server). We appreciate your patience with these changes and apologize for the last minute nature of this announcement so close to the end of the month.
Tier Changes — Live Streams Going Public
OK, Live Streams. Our first live stream went pretty well! At the same time, we learned our lesson. It’s really best to make those public from the start. We need to tap into the YouTube audience with these, not just the Patreon audience. You can imagine YouTube is a lot bigger than Patreon!
Bottom line, the next stream will be public, so that means I don’t have the live streams to tease the VIP Tier any longer.
Chat Community
Another perk we were offering to all Patrons was a Chat Community. At first I looked at something called Discourse for a private community. One of our Patrons joined and educated me that Discourse was just a cheap take on Discord.
So we did create a public Discord server called the “V&T Depot,” I’d encourage everyone to join there. There’s a lot of great conversation about the V&T past and present as well as other railroads being discussed. It’s a hard core group of railroad fans. I’m very happy to report that the environment has been quite positive. The mods haven’t had anything to do!
To join our Discord server, please go to https://discord.gg/wvXTKgrT, thanks!
So What Are We Offering?
Well, I’m trying to figure that out. I would guess that some of you are here for the content, while others would donate regardless of the reward. To all of you, I apologize for these Tier changes.
We will figure out something good for the VIP tier to incentive the higher level of contribution. Any suggestions, please make comments below.
Thanks for your patience with us while we evolve and adapt this Patreon channel.