Patreon Membership Update (Patreon)

Hi everyone! I've been busy working on a few different features that I'm excited to complete and share with you. In the meantime, I've received an email from Patreon about changes to their membership/subscription options that I wanted to briefly discuss.

Patreon will be changing from offering a "charged on the first of every month" billing option - which I use - to only offering a "charged on the day you sign up and every month on that date" billing model. This change will begin happening from November 2024 (although I can potentially delay it until November 2025).

I have a few concerns:

• I mentally work on a "first to the end of the month" schedule, which helps me keep an eye on how much content I'm providing in any given month.

• Pausing my Patreon to allow me time away from creating - which has been necessary for mental health reasons in the past and may be again - could become difficult. I don't think I would feel comfortable pausing my Patreon at any point if there are patrons who only subscribed a few days before I paused, effectively "cheating" them out of weeks of content they signed up for.

That said, I'll try to adapt as best as I can and hope the subscription change isn't too disruptive.

The reason for the change relates to the Apple iOS app store, which brings me to an important question: Do any of you use the Apple iOS store to to access the Patreon app? There are some backend settings I need to deal with that relate to users accessing Patreon via the iOS store, so knowing how many - if any - people use this method would be helpful to me. Please let me know in the comments if you use the iOS store to access Patreon.

Thank you!