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Future of Patreon

  • Continue with Patreon - no change to the system 38
  • Set up a members page through KB3D.co.uk - hopefully set up a drive 24
  • Set up a google drive which is available to the higher paying patrons 19
  • Hybrid, have a mixture of them all 46
  • 2023-08-08
  • multiple choice
  • 127 votes
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Hi all, I would love your feedback on how to continue with Patreon. So as more and more items are added, many items are getting lost in the endless scrolling list. So I was hoping to come up with a solution.


So far I have thought of a few options, and would love your feedback. Please comment below if you have any other suggestions.

Comments

Cyph

The Google drive option is probably the easiest in terms of creating a structure to it all, especially when making updates to files I would think.

Ari Aria

Having a custom website with the models or something actually would be better, and they can easily be in their own categories too.

CyberFoxar

The Patreon with tags works great -- To a point. As a new member it was hard to find some finer points, like your post on how to best print the rings and cages. If you setup a share/members area, it would be good to still keep the relevant (text) information. I'm partial to a drive myself, it makes it easier to bulk-download your works to quickly test different rings/cages.

Michael Calin

The biggest issue I have is that if I need a certain cage size, I can't just search for "femto" and get the exact femto posts because the search also searches the post text. So while it's helpful to have the sizing guides, it means that searching for a specific size isn't any different than using the v4 tag filter.

Michael Calin

I would think so. Or just changing how things are posted so that the posts with the files are easier to find?

KB3D

Frustratingly there is not really a better way at presenting the files on patreon. I could remove all the posts and put up fresh posts with all the files. But as I upload files as I finish them, there is not a great way to present them on patreon

Will Farec

I see several other options that would require less work and maintenance than a website section: 1. Printable member page. Quite like patreon but dedicated to 3Dprint. You can also have a tier with commercial licence 2. put something like a listing on airtable or google spreadhsheet and automate invite of people who are supporting you on patreon. It will be a multi-facet / reference DB of the different stls, that you can keep hosted here for being sure only patron can download them.