Thanks to Daniel Goldsmith for both the shoutout and, even more so, the recommendations. But if Tanis turns out to resemble a recent podcast series about the Polybius Conspiracy in any way I will be well cross.

Good point about the transaction fees -- which is why I offer primarily a season ticket for six months of Eat This Podcast, at different levels. Of course I'm also happy to accept one-off donations, but the season ticket is what I'm hoping people will buy.

Entirely by coincidence, I am sure, this morning I once again turned my attention to the possibility of beefing up my raging iMac's performance buy adding an external SSD as startup disc. Seems a lot more doable than cracking the computer open, and a lot more affordable than a new machine. I'm in the land of cheaper for a little longer yet, so time for more research, but I think I am going to continue down this road.

Patreon's change of heart is indeed welcome, although I am withholding final judgement until I see exactly how things pan out. In a sense you can of course take your patrons with you, as a download of the basic details, and with all the other tools available I suspect it would not be too difficult to reconstruct a similar experience that might even be better for managing privileged content. I've yet to do that myself, but it is in my plans. I'm also having a little trouble with Stripe, which was easy enough to set up, harder to get working efficiently.

Overall, I'm glad to have been goaded into doing something to make it easy for people who don't want the hassle of signing up for Patreon, perhaps because they only have one person to whom they want to donate.