Migration to the new site: What you need to know and do (Patreon)

Hey folks, Phil from the admin team here. I wanted to provide as clear as possible information about the migration to the new site to ensure everyone has as smooth a process to move as possible.

Firstly, Patreon is going away. It's served us well for many years but has never been a good way for people to explore and find our older content, and is very slow. The new site is a dramatic improvement over Patreon and we're getting great feedback from members that have already made the move!

We'll keep Patreon running until subscriptions have run out. Right now that is one month from today. This means that we'll be turning off Patreon on July 16th and no more content will be posted here. It's important that you take action ASAP to prevent double charging.

Canceling your membership here

We initially thought that when we unpublished the tiers that subscriptions would not renew. We've just heard back from Patreon support that this will not happen.

We heavily recommend canceling your Patreon subscription ASAP after reading this post. We are unable to do this for you.

Here is the guide on how to do this:

https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005502572-How-do-I-cancel-

Your membership will continue after canceling until your subscription period has ended.

Signing up for the new site

At the point of sign-up, you'll need to pay for whichever tier you select. Our recommendation is:

- For those who don't want to pay until their Patreon subscription is ending, wait until that's about to happen before signing up. That way you won't be paying twice in the same period. We still recommend that you cancel your Patreon subscription now.

- For those who just want to go ahead and sign-up to the new site, please go ahead and do so if you don't mind paying twice in the same month. We aren't able to offer refunds on existing subscriptions so you do this at your own choice.

The link to sign up is: futureforecastinggroup.com

Why the $10 is going away and small increases on the new tiers

We know that there are some who are disappointed with the new tiers and I wanted to add some more information. There's been some talk and comments about costs etc. and I wanted to address some of this.

Sadly, like most businesses and services we're not immune to costs going up, and they have been across the board. We've done our best to keep the prices the same ever since launching in 2018, but we're now at the point where we have to do something about it to ensure that we can continue providing content for a long time to come.

$10 Tier - Unfortunately, this tier represents over 80% of the bandwidth usage and overall costs but only provides 6-7% of the revenue. Every $10 subscription is running at a loss and we can't continue to run that way. We are looking at a separate platform to provide pay-per-view for some of the content for those who don't want to join the new site and increase their subscription. Providing the solution will take a little more time as we're just a small team and the focus is on migrating everyone to the new site as smoothly as possible. These decisions weren't taken lightly and we really genuinely wish that we could keep this as-is.

The new tiers - these were created through lots of feedback over the last couple of years. We're actually going to be upping the content for the tiers, it's not that we're taking away, we're creating focused areas for those that want either Crypto or Woo.

There will be more sessions across the board as we onboard our second RV team, and we're also adding frequent ARV experiments for each tier. Some of the previously Visionaries-only content such as the Exec Summaries are now available at the $25 price-point, and we're going to be heavily looking at how we can refine and improve everything we do and provide.

We know that we can't please everyone, and believe us, we'd love to be able to. But we are committed to making this as beneficial as possible to as many as possible. We love doing this, and we KNOW that this isn't possible without your support.

Edit:

ALL tiers get access to the Monthly World Events, RV Hits, Dick's World Views, and interviews. These are included as base-level for every subscription level.

Key Takeaways

#1 Cancel your Patreon subscription ASAP - Patreon is going away on July 16th.

#2 Decide if you want to migrate now or at the end of your subscription

#3 If you decide you don't want to move across and cancel, we still love you, and we're working on something else that may just take a little time. You will always be welcome back.