Posted by Kim June 20th 2019, 3:58pm
Fundraiser news! I've finally nailed down most of the details of how the "bake sale" fundraiser will work, and am working on the art assets we'll need to officially launch the fundraiser. It'll combine some aspects of a kickstarteresque fundraiser with some aspects of more traditional RPR flower sales for something that I hope is fun, unique and helps to give us the necessary boost we need to complete Operation Audacious Phoenix.
As soon as I have the appropriate art, I'll start making announcements about it in the general site news.
In programming news: I've rewritten the store and advertising code.
Some of the stuff that got added:
As soon as I have the appropriate art, I'll start making announcements about it in the general site news.
In programming news: I've rewritten the store and advertising code.
Some of the stuff that got added:
- A subscription system that will let people auto-renew their Epic Memberships if they don't want to purchase them manually every month.
It auto-detects when you are about two days from expiring, purchases another month for you, and applies it to your account without needing to fuss with the inventory. Of course, you can still buy piece-meal Epicness as before if you prefer that. - I put in a lot of the necessary plumbing to make good on my erstwhile plan of selling ad space directly to members; that feature is probably not going to be in at relaunch, but it's at least properly possible to do in future now. Woot!
- I also set up a fair amount of plumbing for non-digital goods, so that one day we may be able to sell physical items like totebags and t-shirts right in our own store. Again, not something I anticipate being in the moment of relaunch, but we're set up so that it's very possible in future.
Community Feedback
- @Katia - So far that's looking like a thing that will happen! I have an artist working on the design right now.
@Auberon - One of the values I set out for Accolades at the beginning was that they could never be purchased... so I'm not sure we'll relax that rule now. However, there will be a lot of unique items that can be displayed on profiles that come out of this thing!
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A profile badge for supporting the bake sale would be a neat idea. I know I'd for sure shell out for that!
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Any idea selling Mission Patches/pins for the Undertaking of Operation Audacious Phoenix by The order of the Circuit Gryphon?
Some of us and expressed interest in that idea. LakotaSiouxWarrior
June 26th 2019
4:53pm
Can hardly wait. Thanks Kim you rock🎸🎸.-
Cheesecake!!!!
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It's really impressive to see how much care you have put into this site after so many years. More sites should run like you run RPR!
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I'm so excited for the bake sale!
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Thank you... I've been pulling some really late nights trying to make sure this gets done. Everyone is being so patient with the pause of development on the main site, but I want to end that ASAP.
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This sounds awesome! You're doing amazing, honestly I've never seen anyone add so much so quickly! Keep up the good work!
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Kim
July 24th 2019
10:52am