Change of Plan.
Buttondown still hasn’t addressed my billing problem, and so I’m removing all paid subscriptions. I’ll be setting up a Patreon at some point to do what I was trying to do here (monthly charitable donation funded by newsletter subscribers).
YOU WILL NOT BE CHARGED FURTHER.
I’m going to leave the archive up for a while until I can move the writing elsewhere.
For those curious about the details, for whatever reason, automatic monthly charges just weren’t happening. For the numbers of subscribers I was hoping to have, I simply don’t have the spoons to contact each of them individually every month to collect money from them. Soul-crushing.
And none of you should have to log in every month to re-pay for something you are allegedly subscribed to.
Cannot recommend Buttondown unless you’re planning to keep your newsletter free indefinitely or just take spotty occasional donations. They acknowledged I wasn’t the only person with this problem, and then never got back to me.
But we acknowledge our mistakes and move on, yes?
Watch on Bluesky for info on my Patreon!