Patreon Makes Itself Irrelevant

[rowyn]

I've talked about this a lot on Twitter, and I want to organize my thoughts into a single journal entry.

On Wednesday, Patreon started to email creators and patrons that they were changing their fee structure. First, they were increasing their transaction fees from "once monthly for all pledges" to "once per pledge". Second, they were going to

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[innerslytherin]

I have a Patreon that brings in enough for a tank of gas every month, and I lost one of my $1 supporters over this. She pulled her support from me to support someone else at a higher level. Which is fine--I don't rely on my Patreon and that other author does. But it's impacting everyone. *sigh*

And as a supporter, I'm annoyed that the creators I support will be getting less.

I ended up signing up for a Kofi account, and I applied for an invitation to Kickstarter's Drip beta, which is probably being inundated with applications after Patreon's idiocy this week. But again, I don't rely on this income.

[terrycloth]

Maybe Paypal will aggregate since it's already storing money or whatever?