Alastar Gabriel (but you can call me anything). I'm an ex-professional software developer, now I make weird art and music :p I will give you bug facts unprompted
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lmao the new Patreon logo is so bad. patreon is definitely going out of business, there's no question, these are the flailings of execs who have convinced themselves that there's no future for the company. fucking love it, great
imagine fucking up what amounts to an arterial toll bridge enough to make it fail because it wasn't making enough free money
shoutouts to the branding agency they paid doubtless fucktons of money to for this, take the money and run
I also had my doubts about the Patreon Cumstain until I saw they'd redesigned the homepage with matching mouseover blobs
its. so bad. oh my god. the full website is even worse. this is hilarious (and terrible)
Well that was just about the most egregious case of scrolljacking I have ever seen in my entire life. Who on earth thought it would be a good idea to make the scroll wheel only move the page five pixels at a time
the best website is the one that leaves you convinced "maybe my mouse is breaking?"
My first impression of the actual site was the links popped in because they fucked up the site in the sidebar
having had the timeline of investor money going in laid out next to the timelines of dumb feature changes and of when they got a massive growth boost from covid lockdowns, the situation does look pretty bad
You know, I'm getting really tired of companies that make a great product we all wanted that no one has yet to fill, only for years later the company goes public and suddenly profit and growth is their only motive. I hate the route that apps like Discord are going through, trying to find new ways to make money as the app and other systems the surround it suffer from unaddressed issues and bugs that have been there for years. It's like no company wants to be stable anymore. They just wanna keep taking blind risks to grow, then wonder why they went bankrupt when they didn't listen or care for their customers. I know this is kinda a different topic than the new Patreon logo, but when a company you like changes their logo and it looks bad, it feels like a red flag that the company is run by executives rather than people who actually know the product they run.
here's hoping cohost subscriptions are ready by the time patreon has an event spurring a mass exodus
All they had to do was collect money and skim a little off the top, and they can't even do that. ☹️
The new homescreen is. So fucking bad. There's multiple videos all autoplaying at once behind masks and it makes the scrolling painfully slow and it lags my browser at every opportunity
