[MlMt] Length of Paid Mode for existing patrons

[Jolin Warren]

On 24 Dec 2024, at 7:50, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
> I'm glad you ask! The answer is yes, but I'd like to explain why and I'm also open to changing it.
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> 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.
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> 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”.
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> 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.

Fwiw, as someone who bought a licence and has subsequently been a $10 patron for some time, I do not feel the desire or need for a reward. My licence and patron payments were to support the excellent product I’ve been using for the last several years, and I had no expectation that they would entitle me to anything in the future. I would like you to be fairly compensated for your continuing excellent work, so would prefer to pay the normal price you’ve set with the new pricing model. In other words, I don’t feel like I’m ‘owed’ anything simply because I chose to be a patron before the subscription model was introduced. I did it because MailMate is immensely valuable to me and I wanted to support it.

I hope you manage to have some time off Benny!

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=> Jolin