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<p dir="auto">On 24 Dec 2024, at 4:27, Randy Abbott wrote:</p>
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<p dir="auto">I've been a patron for several years (since 2019, I believe), but MailMate states that my paid status will only lasts for 189 days. Is that correct?</p>
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<p dir="auto">I'm glad you ask! The answer is yes, but I'd like to explain why and I'm also open to changing it.</p>
<p dir="auto">The new payment model for MailMate is subscription only. It is completely equivalent to being a patron and existing patrons do not have to do anything. It'll work just as if having a subscription.</p>
<p dir="auto">A payment of $10 equals approximately 3 months of “Paid Mode”. That is, a user starting a subscription today will only get 3 months of “Paid Mode” if the subscription is cancelled. They will se something like 90 days left when initially adding the license key to MailMate.</p>
<p dir="auto">For older license keys, I have these rules: MailMate will stay in “Paid Mode” until 1 July 2025 or 2 years after the original purchase date. Whatever comes last. Someone buying a license key 3 days ago will see something like 730 days left.</p>
<p dir="auto">Now, your case. Your license key is old which means, at a minimum, MailMate will stay in the paid mode until 1 July 2025. You are also a patron, but although MailMate does take these payments into account, they have been added to the time since the original purchase date. When paying $10 this doesn't give you anything extra while someone having paid $20 or more would likely see a large value for “days left”.</p>
<p dir="auto">I'd like to give some kind of reward to $10 patrons, but I haven't decided how. I can do it server-side though and I have 189 days to do so. It might also depend on how the subscription model is received in general.</p>
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<p dir="auto">For me, it's mainly about what the user thinks is fair -- and on a case by case basis I might do different things for different users. I'm just trying to find the right balance for the overall approach. Two things to keep in mind:</p>
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<li>I stopped my primary income 2 days ago (license key sales at $50).</li>
<li>The difference between “Paid Mode” and “Free Mode” is minimal. The end of paid mode does not mean the end of using MailMate.</li>
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<p dir="auto">I hope that clears up things a bit.</p>
<p dir="auto">--<br>
Benny</p>
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