This is complete rubbish, Jimmy. There’s no grand conspiracy out to get you. The data wasn’t blocked, and you made no mention of switching the data over to the other  (non-club) site. I have absolutely nothing to gain by shutting off the weather station data. I tried emailing you about it and you ghosted me after telling me to retrieve the data from the other site. I already did a whole lot of extra development work when building the site to accommodate you so that you wouldn’t have to make any changes, and now you make an arbitrary change and expect me to spend a whole bunch of extra time redoing what I already did. What happens when you get in a bad mood again and decide that you don’t like Gavin anymore? Do I need to code around your moods?

Absolute bullshit. The club is better off not having its weather data beholden to one person that’s (already proven) to just switch it off cause they have a beef.

On top of all that – the data on the website (from all the stations) is easily accessible by anyone that asks (its JSON data which is very easy to consume and write scripts against). You just had to ask (but you didn’t).

I also made you a page to check the power on that station and sent you a link to it (the link is even at the bottom of the main weather page).

1. Not a screw-up at all, but memberships are now good for one full year from the date of purchase. So your renewal will be due next year on May 2. This is also the reason for the long grace period on the coupon codes (if folks want to eek out every last day of this last membership year and pay at the end of June, they’re free to do that). More on this in #3.
2. We turned off all of the auto-billing stuff (we can definitely do that, but thought that more people would be against it than for), so you won’t be auto-billed. Next year, 2 weeks before your membership expires, you’ll get an auto-nag email from the site reminding you to renew.
3. In the auto-nag email (mentioned in #2), you’ll get another coupon code that will again waive the sign-up fee (so same process as this time), making your next payment $100. Here’s what the email will look like (your coupon code will be unique to you).
4. Feel free to remove your payment method under your account if your payment has already been processed. Just remember to update it before the next time you renew.

Hope that clears everything up. If anyone has any issues, feel free to email info@crestlinesoaring.org.

EDIT: Also should have mentioned, in case anyone has security concerns: We do NOT store your credit card information on the website. If you have a payment method stored, that is completely handled by the payment processor (Stripe – for those who aren’t familiar, it’s like PayPal only better; they are fully PCI compliant with all of the necessary security protocols in place).

That’s awesome – by the time I thought to snap a pic, that closeup shot of him carrying the pole was gone.