Patreon Nonsense (Patreon)

I'm gonna talk about Patreon's new fees. Beginning with two apologies: Sorry I didn't say something sooner, and also sorry if you're sick of hearing about it. Most of the people I'm pledged to have written long takes about it, I don't know how many of them you've read through already. I've been complaining on Twitter since yesterday. I'm tired, I don't have anything new or interesting to say, and I've lost over 30 patrons since it was announced.

In short, this is a bad move that doesn't seem to benefit anyone, not even Patreon. The slight increase in take-home pay on my end isn't worth losing any of you.

All that aside, I'm hoping this isn't the end of the world. Hopefully most of you are not too inconvenienced and hopefully it doesn't heck with my numbers too much.

To deal with the situation, I tried to lower each reward tier by a dollar so folks could lower their pledges without losing content, but apparently Patreon won't let me do that without unpublishing the reward and relaunching a new one. So much for that idea.

Other thought: if I were to start a second profile over on Liberapay, which is a non-profit and doesn't seem to mess people up with fees, would some of you be interesting in transferring your pledges there?

Hit me up in the comments.

-I