Patreon un-launched my page today. Now, if memory serves, if a "founder" voluntarily un-launches their creator page then when they re-launch it they lose their founder benefits (basically they stop being on the old fee rates and get hit with the new higher fees). So is Patreon deliberately un-launching creators for any random reason they can come up with, to force founders on to the higher fee rates? Or are they actually not evil and don't withdraw a creator's founder status if they (Patreon) cause a page to un-launch? The message I got from Patreon was (paraphrased): "we've un-launched your page. We do this periodically with all creators, and in your case we did it because you don't claim payments from your patrons very often." I've now re-submitted my page for re-launch, and it's under review. To be honest I use Patreon so rarely as a creator and am never fussed about the payments/fees anyway, so even if I've lost founder status that doesn't bother me. I just thought I'd mention

Just a quick update for anyone who can actually still find people's Journals in Eclipse :) Things are quiet since I posted the Vipers story because I am currently working on a series that needs to be posted all in one go, rather than one or a few images at a time. More to be revealed in future! Things are happening, I just can't publish anytihng yet. As usual, a random crackpot idea to create something uniquely challenging has seized my imagination and so that's what I'm now pursuing. Hoping to be able to produce the results within a month or two. As this main idea progresses, I might still post some random unrelated images though.

Since Saturday the "ALL" tab of my notifications feed has been grouping different types of updates up, even though the group button isn't ticked. If I tick it, the ALL tab just behaves as if it's the Replies-only tab. All I can see is replies instead of watches, comments, etc as well. I thought I was going crazy - getting alerts but then when I checked nothing was there :P

Mild spoiler: Holy smoleys. Skye Larson is AWESOME! O.O If you have no intention of playing the game, just watch a playthorugh of the "Coming Home" mission to see what the villainous villainess did to her own mother, as practice for her master (mistress?) plan. Skye should go marry Zlatko from 'Detroit: Become Human' and form a diabolical power couple of ultimate evil. XD

Q: "Huh - why do new visitors to my DA page start favouriting the really, really old 'Space Story' images after they've favourited my most recent output?" A: Because I'm stupid and haven't organised my gallery folders properly - the oldest folders are shown first and so people automatically look in those before the much better, more recent images. :P - Now fixed! All the recent stories are up front. :D Also a serious question - why has DA changed my birthday? I think it's now showing my fake birthday from when I signed up decades ago, instead of the real date previously shown in the old website's display info... O.o I wonder if I can get it changed back. On a related note - what on Earth happened to the birthday tracker that was in the bottom left of the old website?! Come to think of it - where are my polls? :O