<2022-11-01T05:46:17.000Z> chudbere: thanks! i used to do 3x or 4x a week
<2022-11-01T05:46:26.000Z> chudbere: so are you also Micheal Games on poast?
<2022-11-01T05:49:58.000Z> chudbere: okay can you link me to a public profile you have somewhere else like youtube, twitter, etc
<2022-11-01T05:50:13.000Z> chudbere: even a git is fine
<2022-11-01T05:52:29.000Z> chudbere: just a link to an account where you can post a message or something saying 'this is me'
<2022-11-01T05:52:33.000Z> chudbere: then delete it afterwards
<2022-11-01T05:53:16.000Z> chudbere: yes
<2022-11-01T05:53:56.000Z> chudbere: got it you can delete it
<2022-11-01T05:54:43.000Z> chudbere: you have your check now :)
<2022-11-01T05:55:33.000Z> chudbere: lol you don't need to do anything in return
<2022-11-01T05:56:25.000Z> chudbere: I posted about this earlier, i feel that the bar of entry for a check should really just be "are you a content creator of some sort? do you have another account where you do that creation that you are willing to link to this one? if both are yes, then you get a check
<2022-11-01T05:57:31.000Z> chudbere: :)
<2022-11-01T06:07:27.000Z> chudbere: adorable!
<2022-11-07T04:33:06.000Z> chudbere: what's your idea
<2022-11-07T04:33:56.000Z> chudbere: how do you mean, can you give an example?
<2022-11-07T04:40:00.000Z> chudbere: oh i gotcha
<2022-11-07T04:40:09.000Z> chudbere: yeah i want to have some community event nights
<2022-11-07T04:40:17.000Z> chudbere: I'm also hoping that the blog will bring people together
<2022-11-07T04:41:38.000Z> chudbere: it's gonna be a place where people can submit Chudly news
<2022-11-07T04:41:48.000Z> chudbere: about lolcows, drama, the fediverse, whatever
<2022-11-07T04:41:54.000Z> chudbere: or they can submit more creative stuff
<2022-11-07T04:42:04.000Z> chudbere: essays, poetry, creative writing, art, music
<2022-11-07T04:42:37.000Z> chudbere: it's a separate website, but I can probably make an RSS feed bot that posts here when something gets added to the blog
<2022-11-07T04:44:11.000Z> chudbere: Yeah i have quite a few that were interested in writing on the blog regularly
<2022-11-07T04:44:31.000Z> chudbere: and I've set up a "guest post" submission form on it, so anyone can submit something that gets held as a draft for review
<2022-11-07T04:45:16.000Z> chudbere: I'm still getting the website created currently, in process now
<2022-11-07T04:49:07.000Z> chudbere: thank you! I will let you know for sure
<2022-11-07T04:49:19.000Z> chudbere: working on a better donation system right this moment
<2022-11-07T04:49:31.000Z> chudbere: will probably make an announcement tomorrow on all the new features
<2022-11-07T04:54:28.000Z> chudbere: I've got a couple of solutions already set up, a primary and a backup. Patreon is good for recurring stuff but the solution I'm using allows one-time or recurring donations with CC through my Stripe account, which is the simplest way to handle it. 
<2022-11-07T04:55:44.000Z> chudbere: If you use Patreon they will send you an 1099-K, so it gets reported as self-employment income. We already deal with that for the Patreon for Chris' comic so I prefer to keep this separate
<2022-11-07T04:56:04.000Z> chudbere: Stripe charges a transaction fee like any CC processor
<2022-11-07T04:57:05.000Z> chudbere: yes, I know lol
<2022-11-07T04:57:10.000Z> chudbere: I've been doing our taxes for years
<2022-11-07T04:57:14.000Z> chudbere: we are both self-employed
<2022-11-07T04:57:57.000Z> chudbere: but I want to keep the CC transactions from Chud Buds completely separate from Patreon, which is why I'm doing it this way
<2022-11-07T04:58:46.000Z> chudbere: Chud Buds income will go as business income on my portion of the tax return under Schedule C
<2022-11-07T04:59:43.000Z> chudbere: I'm trying to keep things as separated as possible from our primary income sources so that if someone tries to come along and deplatform either of us
<2022-11-07T05:00:00.000Z> chudbere: it won't be connected to Patreon, Paypal, etc
<2022-11-07T05:00:19.000Z> chudbere: the most they can go after is my Stripe processing, which I can live without 
<2022-11-07T05:01:12.000Z> chudbere: I don't plan to let chud buds grow indefinitely
<2022-11-07T05:01:31.000Z> chudbere: Will probably cap membership at 5000 max
<2022-11-07T05:02:30.000Z> chudbere: Yeah and I don't want to outpace our resources by growing too big too fast
<2022-11-07T05:05:51.000Z> chudbere: I enjoy talking to you as well!
<2022-11-07T05:06:00.000Z> chudbere: And I appreciate the offer of help
<2022-11-07T05:06:09.000Z> chudbere: what kind of coding do you do
<2022-11-07T05:06:45.000Z> chudbere: what do you build games with?
<2022-11-07T05:19:23.000Z> chudbere: sounds good! I'm pretty okay with HTML and PHP, CSS and Bootstrap
<2022-11-07T05:20:00.000Z> chudbere: need to learn Tailwind CSS for future customization of the Soapbox front-end we use here on the site whenever I get around to forking our distro of it
