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G'day all,

TLDR:

  • Patreon billing pause ends 2nd of September.

  • I will be leaving the billing unpaused for a day or two, to give people time to change up membership.

  • After that day, I will pause billing for another month.

  • Chapters will continue to be released during September, even with the billing paused.

It finally seems possible to pause billing without massive technical issues for a large portion of people. As such, I will be moving forward with the plan to pause billing again for September.

The one issue that I've been seeing is that people want to resume membership or alter their tier, which can't be done while paused. As such, once the current pause ends on September 2nd (I believe US time), I will not pause it again immediately. That way, people can change up their membership before the next pause. I'll give it a day or so before pausing once again.

As a quick reminder of how billing pauses work: however you long have left when the pause starts will still be how long you have left when it ends. During the pause, you will have full access to content for your tier, but you will be unable to change your membership.

Comments

Izraifel

Thank you for the heads up!

Whicked

Thank you. I've been wanting to upgrade.

obiwann

Why you pausing if you still posting chapters?

Jim Butler

This isn't correct. You can change your membership at any time even if it's paused.

Jim Butler

You don't need to go through the hassle at al keep itl paused through September if that's what you're doing.

Beth Ho

Thank you so much! I've been trying to increase my tier but have been unable to do so.

Bb

Shirt is there a way to bulk download chapters? I need to download the chapters from when you came back from the hiatus up until now

Christian

Every single time I see you post it puts a smile on my face that youre still here.

Leo Ridgway

Real quick question do you send out mystery fan boxes to random patrons?

Matt Bullock

Check out the "WebToEpub" browser extension. It's great for catching up on lots of chapters without having to deal with Patreon's ux.

Chase Tollefson

Very much incorrect info. I haven’t been able to access chapters or anything since the pause started at the end of June.

Jim Butler

You can definitely join a membership when it's on pause because I did it a couple weeks ago.

Nathan

Cool! Didn’t even know that was a thing!!

Jarus Cox

He made a post earlier about it i think. Something about having to post all of the chapters for the lower tier groups, so instead of causing chaos or issues he just rolled with what he could do and was pausing it when everything was done. But lower tiers will have a longer delay before chapters resume.

🐐🍯

Yes, you can go from Free -> Paying tier, but not upgrade as in from Paying (no chapters) -> Paying (extra chapters) A workaround is to create a new Patreon account, if you are stuck in the $2 tier when the pause began & want to access chapters

Kate Gerry

No, the person responding as Shirt is a scammer. Check the join of Patreon date, Sept 2026.

Sarah

Fellow Hobart local here. HWFWM was my introduction to LitRPG. I only recently learned Travis is Tasmanian too. Just wanted to say thanks for creating such an amazing series! Looking forward to reading more Aussie humour ☺️

Shannon Bartley

I’d say awesome because I’ve been wanting to upgrade for a month so I can keep reading but…it appears that it paused again for another month rather than unpausing.

Anthony Simms

I found a different workaround myself because i wanted to read more chapters. If you cancel your membership, you can upgrade to whatever tier you want, you just have to pay the full price instead of just the difference going from a lower tier

Josh

It's unpaused right now and I was able to upgrade! I think he said he will re-pause it tomorrow. So for sure do it today if you want to upgrade.

Splutty

Patreon sent me 2 identical messages saying you paused my subscription, which made me wonder if I actually had 2 somehow. No I don't. Thanks Patreon :) Because nothing can ever just work. lol

Nathan

Wow. That’s nuts, thanks for the catch!!

Leo Ridgway

Really appreciate that thank you

Addie

I looked at my billing history and I've continued to be billed since April

Soli116

Insert that "take my money" gif here, please.

Different Minaga

So what I’m reading is that I have no way to upgrade from Iron and get into the next book for the next of the month? Niiiiiice

FancyAd

I can't subscribe, its giving me an error message, does anyone know how to get around it? I need some Jason in my life :,)

Hunter Williamson

Will you be unpausing the membership anytime soon? I’d really like to upgrade my tiers since I’m caught up as I can be now. Also, thank you for this incredible story and journey so far.

Caleb Barefield

Ran into the same problem. You can create a new membership with a separate account at whatever tier you want, you just can’t upgrade a current membership. I created a second account yesterday to keep reading and will switch back to my main account once the pause and the month I paid for are up.

Kylar

Is there any word on when the next break from pause is? I’d really love to up my membership to silver