A quick note about the new Service Fee (Patreon)

I hear Patreon is changing their pricing structure a little, so I wanted to send you a quick note!

Up until this point, credit card fees and transaction fees came out of my side of things, in addition to Patreon's 5% cut. This is something I've accounted for in the past.

It looks like Patreon is changing things to put those transaction fees on your end, which I understand might be annoying, because now we both need to re-do our budgets! No worries if you decide to lower or delete your pledge to account for the change, as this is money I no longer have to pay.

A good reason to do things this way is that now the number shown on the page will be a little closer to what I actually take home, and things are a little more predictable for everyone.

But I am more than a little annoyed that they made this change without warning. I haven't been notified by Patreon about it even now. There's something about expecting that if you're pledging a tau amount, then it should be tau, not tau+fee, so a heads-up would have been nice!

Not sure exactly how I feel about it all, but I wanted to send you a note anyway! Here's patreon's post on the matter: https://blog.patreon.com/updating-patreons-fee-structure/