Fuck closed off mobile stores, it’s all a scam.
Why are we ceding control over our personal computers to organizations who would limit our use of them?
If we have platforms capable of running arbitrary code then we should be able to do it.
This is exactly it. It feels like about 99% of the crap these companies are pushing has no reason to be an app. Patreon is already primarily a web page. I guarantee you everything anyone cares about in the app you can do on the mobile version of the web page. Without being locked to the App Store/Google Play, and on (practically) any device. Isn’t that what these companies should want in the first place? Totally device and platform agnostic, ready for the maximum amount of
suckerspotential paying customers to be able to access it?
I’m glad everyone is getting away from the Apple tax.
Normie has no problem paying… He is rich
Ain’t no billions of rich normies around these days.
This guy/gal fucks
Then why are they this willing to lay but then cry about price of eggs (which is criminal)
Why is he so willing to pay corporate tax without a thought but gasoline price will drive his voting patterns?!
I didn’t even know Patreon had a mobile app. To me, Patreon is just one of those Big Adult Things you have to do on a computer. Seems to work just fine on mobile browser (Firefox for Android) though. Apple being mega greedy as usual.
As someone who attempts to watch content on the iOS app, it’s a massive pile of shit and you’re right to use the browser only
The change from pay per episode to per month was a direct result of crApple’s 30% tax. This hurt Patreon directly because a bunch of creators were pissed about the change and blamed Patreon for not fighting back, so they left. So Patreon has lost revenue over this, how much I have no idea but I know several of the podcasts I listen to have stopped asking you to pay via Patreon and are now asking you to donate via Substack or their private donation page.
If you are releasing regularly - MWF, or every Sunday a monthly subscription works well. However if you are the type that makes good content but can’t release often you want pay per episode. If you sometimes release twice a month, and sometimes go months between a release it isn’t fair to ask your viewers to subscribe in months where they get nothing.
True, but the podcasters I heard about this from were posting at least once a week with one three times a week. They were all pissed and talked about how it would potentially hurt their subscribership. And most left because of the switch.
Having only been a patron and not a creator I have no way to back up any of this other than relay the things I heard from their rants… which there were quite a few of after the initial announcement.
Patreon app is literally their website. What does it do that the website does not? Notifications? Offline images? All of these can be done in your mobile browser.
Too little, too late. I only know 2 creators that I supported who stayed through all this. Most quit patreon when it was announced… this is hardly the worst of the fees they charge people.
Patreon’s own fees are too high and were restructured in a scummy way.
So how many quit? Can you name them? Where did they move to?
7 out of 9, yes, one went to self-hosted, another left in favor of youtube directly, the rest in favor of twitch. The last two I follow on Patreon (Techmoan and My Mate Vince) just sorta rolled past the whole thing.
Interesting. AFAIK YouTube takes a 30% cut on donations.
Twitch takes 50% of subs.
Sounds like the self hosted person is the only one who actually made an improvement?
I might be out of date on my numbers.
Ohh wow Tim the creep apple is doing an extortion?!
Deny this parasite profit and engagement 🐸
