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Howdy All. All kinds of things happening behind the curtain. Most of it is admin/techy stuff and troubleshooting. But I did make a nice improvement to our SSV Supporter system and simplified the process! We now have 1 screen that shows all of the subscription options for SSV Patrons. You can only have 1 active subscription active at one time and this will easily manage that. You'll have the option of switching between plans, which is much easier with this new system. Updating and renewing is also easy to find without having to dig through menus. You can find the subscriptions or manage your subscriptions under the Support SSV tab in the navigation bar. You can also manage your subscriptions in the pulldown menu in the upper right corner of the website (next to your avatar). It's located under the Settings section and called Manage Subscriptions. On your profile page, you'll see a new block in the left column showing your supporter status, which is a nice touch. I've also changed the Supporter tiers a bit. The standard supporter level remains at $10/yr and that works pretty well. We have a handful of folks who choose to support SSV on a monthly basis of $5/month at the gold level. We also had a silver level at $3/month, which was a complete flop. I had several folks want to support SSV a bit more, but the jump from $10/year for the SSV Patron to $60/year for SSV Gold Patron pretty steep. So I changed the Silver level from $3/month to $20/YEAR instead. So I figured the $20/year easier to digest. All options now offer Paypal or Stripe to process payment and offers handy recurring payment. Payment info isn't stored on SSV for securtity reasons and payment processing is taken care of by either Paypal or Stripe. Anyway, the new system should be a bit easier to manage. Everything seemed to go well during the conversion. But if you see anything strange or you need help switching between plans, please let me know. I'm happy to help. Again, thank you for your continued support! I greatly appreciate it!

Howdy all. We've been on our new server for 3 months now. Everything seems to be working well. I've been monitoring our server usage, and we're in the green! So that's great news. Thanks everybody for your patience as I went through these severe growing pains. Naturally, when a little site like SSV begins to grow, things get more complicated and considerably more expensive. @Scrappile suggested a good idea in offering different levels of support for SSV patrons. So I thought I'd give it a try and see how it goes. I have created 3 levels of support for SSV Patrons; Bronze, Silver, and Gold. The 3 levels offer the exact same benefits. The only difference is the supporter title and the color of the supporter badge below your avatar. Bronze is $10/year and is the same one we've always had (still says SSV Patron). Silver is $3/month (cost of a cup of good coffee). Gold is $5/month (cost of a cup of fancy Starbucks coffee). I'm using a new payment processor that can handle recurring payments. So these new subscriptions will auto-pay until you cancel it. So you don't have to worry about trying to remember to resubscribe. None of the credit card information is stored on my server and I don't have visibility into your information. Payments are processed by Stripe which is embedded into SSV. You can upgrade and downgrade your plans at any time. Upgrades will charge the prorated difference between the two plans. Downgrades are also prorated with the difference given as account credit. I'm going to give this a try for awhile. If it becomes more trouble than it's worth, I'll revert back to the old way. But if it does work, it is a nice way to pitch in a few extra bucks to cover the cost of running SSV. If you're interested in becoming an SSV Patron, or you want to upgrade, you can find the new badges here. Thank you everybody for your continued support! I really appreciate it.

I want to become a Supporter,But I don't want to do the PayPal thing.I have had some not so pleasant experiences with them in the past.Can I pay another way? J Lawson/lawson56