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<blockquote data-quote="Ryujin" data-source="post: 8490699" data-attributes="member: 27897">Patreon courted, and received, an infusion of venture capital cash so of course they had to show profitability. They announced that they were going to add a per transaction charge, on the patron side, to payments for creators. If you had a horde of $1-$2 Patreon contributions that you were making then suddently you were going to be paying 20-40% more per month. Not such a big deal if you had larger payments, to fewer creators, but substantial if you were an average person, supporting a bunch of creators, at a lower level. My own support costs would have jumped from roughly US$50.00/month to US$70.00 per month, by my calculations, with no increase in payments to those I support.The whole idea was (edit: &quot;seemed to be&quot;; this is my assumption) that they wanted fewer but larger creators, presumably because it would require less infrastructure and internal costs to maintain them.People left Patreon in droves. Creators moved to alternate platforms, if they could. Patreon soon walked back their statement but the damage had been done. Many supporters have never come back.[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.brendanschlagel.com/2018/01/07/the-great-patreon-debacle-and-what-it-means-for-independent-creators/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ryujin, post: 8490699, member: 27897"] Patreon courted, and received, an infusion of venture capital cash so of course they had to show profitability. They announced that they were going to add a per transaction charge, on the patron side, to payments for creators. If you had a horde of $1-$2 Patreon contributions that you were making then suddently you were going to be paying 20-40% more per month. Not such a big deal if you had larger payments, to fewer creators, but substantial if you were an average person, supporting a bunch of creators, at a lower level. My own support costs would have jumped from roughly US$50.00/month to US$70.00 per month, by my calculations, with no increase in payments to those I support. The whole idea was (edit: "seemed to be"; this is my assumption) that they wanted fewer but larger creators, presumably because it would require less infrastructure and internal costs to maintain them. People left Patreon in droves. Creators moved to alternate platforms, if they could. Patreon soon walked back their statement but the damage had been done. Many supporters have never come back. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.brendanschlagel.com/2018/01/07/the-great-patreon-debacle-and-what-it-means-for-independent-creators/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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