New features:
New Art Blog:
- I host my own art on my websites now, but will continue to post on other platforms.
- Located at Weresdrim.art
- I will post on these sites 1 week earlier than other public releases.
- This sites have existing art placed on them with .PNG downloads.
- Future art will have higher resolutions restricted to Patrons.
- Plans are to place advertisements on these sites in the future to earn additional revenue. (Sorry but I need to earn a living somehow!)
- My hope is to remove ads at a later date but I cannot do so while I’m still young and poor.
Speed!:
- Much much faster than the previous website, a lot of effort has been made to make this the case.
- Moved to new VPS hosting instead of shared hosting (if you don’t know what this means, it means the site is faster).
- Each site is purpose built. Weresdrim.art should load incredibly fast as some of the quickest pages in the world judged by Google’s speed rankings. Weresdrim.com is slightly slower but stil fast, but is this way to facilitate the greater amount of varied features.
I opened a Patreon:
- Here: https://patreon.com/weresdrim
- Currently in Beta mode, with official release and rewards to be started on May 1st. Any pledges till then will be considered as donations.
- I ended up opening a Patreon after a lot of dev time working on self-hosted memberships that ended up not quite being worth it at this stage. This may see a comeback in the future depending on external circumstances out of my control.
- All of the features I planned are on Patreon instead.
New Look:
- All sites have new and improved ‘dark mode’ style that’s easier on the eyes and highlights illustrations better.
Shop:
- Better purchasing experience for commissioners.
- Products can be added easier in the future. I have plans to add products to the shop at a later date.
Commissions:
- 2/3 Patreon tiers now give significant discounts to commissions.
- Now open only in short time windows.
- Utilises a timer to display when the next commission period is open.
- Commissioner Patrons can exclusively reserve some slots per month depending on their tier. They can still attempt to take more slots per month if any remain.
- Commissioner Patrons can ignore the open window with their reserved commissions, and can instead submit request and payment whenever they like in the month.
- Payment and official prices are now in $AUD only. I have listed conversion tables in places that prices appear to help you know any estimate of how much you will be paying.
- Slightly lowered prices in change to $AUD as it is a good exchange rate right now with the $AUD having dropped significantly in value.
- More details at: https://weresdrim.com/commission-request