New site feature: removed ads for Patreon supporters!
Here’s something I’ve been tinkering with over the past few days. The ability for my Patreon supporters on the $3 tier or higher to remove all the ad banners on this site!
Truth be told, ad revenue on my website has steadily decreased over the years, mostly due to social media taking over, and at this point ads are probably more of an annoyance for the reader rather than an actual source of income for me. Previously when ad revenue was more lucrative, any income I got through ads usually covered the hosting and domain fees for any given year. This isn’t the case anymore, unfortunately. Don’t worry, the site isn’t going anywhere (probably), but I figured it would make more sense to strip the ads away for people who actually financially support Optipess: that is, my lovely Patreon supporters!
There is a new “connect with Patreon” button on the site (placed all the way at the bottom!). Clicking and connecting your Patreon account will remove the ads and instead show a heartfelt thank you-message. Aww!
And even though this feature is for the $3 tier and higher, any and all support from $1 and up on Patreon is of course immensely appreciated. Thank you!
Very nice feature! (Unfortunately I’ll have to stick to worship using dark prayers in hooded robes for the time being, but I appreciate it none the less.) Thanks for all the great (and free!) comics.
If you’re interested in diversifying your revenue streams, you should consider accepting Web Monetization payments and hiding ads for Web Monetization supports too. It’s super easy to implement: 1) add one invisible meta element to your HTML to receive donations. 2) hide ads when people are paying. Learn more with ad-hiding code example at https://developers.coil.com/ (There’s also a WP plugin if you don’t want to do the work.)
This is exciting! I’ve logged in with Patreon even though I’m only a $1 supporter and so still see the ads — just because I didn’t want to be left out.
Hah, thanks for checking it out anyway – and also confirming that it doesn’t work for $1 patrons as intended. Of course, you can always upgrade!
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