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I do art, sometimes


SamKeeper
@SamKeeper

hilariously, I tried months ago to switch my patreon to a subscription model and they wouldn't let me because they switched that functionality off. now, magically, it's back, because Apple is twisting their arm about it. lots of "fuck apple" takes going around but... if this is what forces patreon to actually do their job uhhhhhh I'm not complaining lol


SamKeeper
@SamKeeper

they've essentially been letting all infrastructure not attuned to the subscription model rot for MONTHS, they WANTED to force people onto this model before. it feels like Tumblr whining about how they can't have porn even though twitter can "for reasons idk", when it's become SO fucking obvious that they just wanted to ban porn and apple makes for a convenient scapegoat.

I firmly believe that the reason they turned off the ability to just switch from per-creation to subscription because they wanted to force all of us with grandfathered in lower fee rates because we signed up in the first few years of their business to just remake our patreons from scratch. if this forces them to just let us switch normally that's a good thing, though part of me still is waiting for the other shoe to drop.

also, lol, remember when the ENTIRE PITCH for Patreon was "we can keep service fees down because we charge cards ONCE in a big lump sum then distribute the earnings"? it's funny how that fell by the wayside over time...

anyway fuck this company, they're doing a great job of making it look like apple is responsible for what for the most part is their own infrastructural incompetence and fecklessness.


SamKeeper
@SamKeeper

when you convert to "subscription" they come up with a "multiplier" based on your last 3 months output and use that to determine what your new prices are, so you can't do, say, what I was intending to do and raise my prices AND ALSO LOL LMAO if someone has set a limit on how much they're charged a month (always an INSANE thing that they had this tbqh), that person is now grandfathered in as paying that amount regardless of what the multiplier is. so like you could triple your monthly tier amount and still have people paying a third of that price.

actual madness. I hate this company so much.

oh and you can only change your prices... if you're already in the subscription model, because they effectively stopped developing features for any other fucking model like 3 years ago without ever outright telling anyone that all other forms were deprecated, and without allowing anyone to change before now.


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