I think I'd be more willing to listen to the idea of merch kick starters if I knew what the money was going towards. It feels like most of the focus recently has been shoved into making custom items (A custom maker every 8 days and every event? Really?) instead of content for the general populace. It feels sort of unbalanced to me right now.

I appreciate all the work that being done and that you have a small team. I don't care about the housing stretch goal, honestly, though I can see why people would want previous promises done first. I just don't feel like the time and effort that goes into making assets, obtaining an appropriate company for making pins, managing the Kickstarter, and working out distribution is the BEST uses of staff time.

That aside, the only people who would be potentially interested on doing this is probably just Dappervolk users, and we're becoming endangered. I don't think the amount of people willing to pledge money towards something like this will be worth, again, the time and effort sunk into just working out details for a Kickstarter, when it could be put towards something more site-oriented.