Paid version

As the userbase is growing, the projected expenses for the next upgrade in server will be significant (beyond what I'm willing to pay as a "hobby"). I've been squeezing water out of a stone with the server for a while now, and slowly it starting to show signs that an upgrade will be required. Also I'd like to be able to afford automated backups, which I currently do manually from time to time; not ideal.

As such I've been exploring new ideas for making Vine Helper financially sustainable while keeping it's fairness free.

For the next update, there will be likely be a Patreon subscription system.

The first tier (likely 3$) is intended to provide videos tutorials explaining some of the features.

The second tier (likely 6$) will unlock the following features which will become paywalled (I'm still thinking about it, so this is not a final list): - Expanded pagination - Display variant icon - Experimental features: - - Arrow navigation in modal, - - Search open See Details modal, - - (new) hide OptOut button from account page - CustomCSS - Remote Storage (hidden & pinned items) - (new) Keywords list to Blur items

And I'm still pondering about finding a way to keep the keywords sync'ed between devices sharing the same UUID. If I can figure it out, that would also be a paid feature.

As you can see I tried to pick some of the most "advanced" features which are very much optional to the core of the user experience.

It would be easy to say "Notifications are no longer free", but I'd personally find this to be unfair to those who, for whatever reason, can't or don't want to support the project financially.

I want VH to remain free and open source. But I think a very optional subscription model would bring more financial stability and ensure I have the resources to sustain the users growth.

Let me know what you think: feedback, suggestions, etc...