A new year and a change of management (not really, but still kind of) (Patreon)

Hello my dear patrons & followers!

First things first: HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Now, to the topic at hand, the old and the new year. 2021 was a big disappointment, in many way. But, to stay positive, it somehow managed to provide me with a client project that was so incredible boring but also paid well enough, that I can start 2022 in a much better way. And at least for the first quarter of the year, I will put 100% of my time in my own projects.

That comes with a big change:

Heptamind (my own company) will no longer only just act as publisher of MMM but also as the acting developer. What might look like a cosmetic change at first actually means a few things:

The money from this patreon page will go to Heptamind (starting with the end of January).

I will no longer work on this project in my free time after work.

I will now work on MMM as part of my work, investing "company time". That should result in a more steady development.

Apart from these harder facts, it's a change of how I see this project. I hated how I didn't put as much time into MMM as it deserved, and while I am fully aware that the combination of free time and mental energy was a rare thing for me during the last 1.5 years, I still felt like neglecting MMM and all of its users and in a way the whole community.

But, as project management changes from me (as in person who spends free time on MMM) to me (as in a one-man company seeing MMM as a commercial project), you might want to re-evaluate your patronage. Though please don't panic over the implications of the last sentence, I don't plan to raise prices on MMM or anything, I'm quite happy how it does financially given the fact that it is quite a niche product. I just hope that MMM finally gets all those updates and features I kinda promised you all way too long ago.

During January I will update this project page and post status updates again. Other things I have planned is the first of a couple of tutorial videos and the return of early beta versions for patrons.

So, I wrote this directly from my brain and it might be confusing or badly phrased here and there. So, do you have any qustions? What are your thoughts?Comments are very welcome!