Patreon is being a dumb (Patreon)
Published:
2017-12-07 03:47:49
Edited:
2017-12-07 05:00:03
Imported:
2022-01
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Ok so heres the craic. You may have seen people bitching about this on twitter today in between the fire and politics.
Patreon, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that instead of deducting handling/processing frees from creators (which we were fine with) they're going to start charging Patrons extra for it instead. They're trying to sell to us on "you'll get more money this way" grounds but we're well aware that a lot of people are already giving as much as they can and throwing a mandatory 3% on top of that will result in a lot of people having to cancel their pledge altogether.
We're currently doing our best to talk Patreon out of this folly. If we don't succeed I'm going to consider other options like lowering each pledge tier by a few bucks to bring things back to the way they were before.
So just... Bear with us for a bit I guess :S
Dom
Patreon, in its infinite wisdom, has decided that instead of deducting handling/processing frees from creators (which we were fine with) they're going to start charging Patrons extra for it instead. They're trying to sell to us on "you'll get more money this way" grounds but we're well aware that a lot of people are already giving as much as they can and throwing a mandatory 3% on top of that will result in a lot of people having to cancel their pledge altogether.
We're currently doing our best to talk Patreon out of this folly. If we don't succeed I'm going to consider other options like lowering each pledge tier by a few bucks to bring things back to the way they were before.
So just... Bear with us for a bit I guess :S
Dom