That is definitely where I am headed.

I've just been looking at Square and Stripe, and Stripe may be marginally ahead. Did you consider Stripe?

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Currently looking at a roll-your-own. It is a WP site, so with Stripe payments (and PayPal) and a couple of plugins I think I could do a reasonable job, leaving Patreon as it is.

For me, it has to beg per episode rather than per time period. Do you know whether that works with Drip?

I haven't jumped ship yet, but I have sent my Patrons an email and I am thinking hard about alternatives.

No, it is a flat file database.

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My friend aaronpk has a thing called quartzdb. It’s the presentation and search that has me stumped. Would also be a very fun learning project. If I wanted to do tags and things and pull in weather and all that, I would be better off paying.

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Yeah, always with the bloated feature creep. I was reading about an approach to flat files as databases that makes me almost want to try and roll my own. But it would not be pretty.

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Messing around with WP child themes, as one must.

I have set aside some time today to continue the search. Will try to report back.