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Stryxnine Amity Pulsatrix
(30/πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦/Saskatchewan)
NACRS Organizer
esports broadcast producer
plural, autistic, adhd
disability & queer activist
hobbyist archival researcher
bylines in Traxion.gg
loves @kadybat and @traumagotchi and @kaceydotme

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jkap
@jkap

the thing about patreon is that, regardless of any concerns about their business practices re: changing fees, source of funding, etc etc, it is just miserable dogshit awful software to use. trying to fix payment methods and the site just Doesn't Load Pages more than half the time and when it does they're slow as hell. everything is locked behind js click events so i can't even open in a new tab, and changing anything drops you back to the home page where you have to go four pages deep again to do anything. hell on earth


jkap
@jkap

i am stuck with a persistent "Your payment to [x] didn't go through" because, six months ago, i got a new debit card and forgot to change it immediately in patreon. it still has not attempted to charge these again despite me changing the payment method months ago. i have no idea how to even attempt to fix this because everything i would have considered (such as: cancelling and restarting my subscription manually) Doesn't Fucking Do Anything


jkap
@jkap

managed to trick it into working for (almost) everyone by playing payment method musical chairs. this sort of shit should not be necessary.

i say "almost" everyone because try as i might it refuses to acknowledge ANYTHING i do for @cathoderaydude. sorry gravis, i am trying but the software is blocking me.


jkap
@jkap

i'm dropping hints that jae kaplan just edited their pledge to $5


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Patreon works so fucking bad as a website, dude. I've hated it for so long but kept mine around because it's (just barely) done the job as a place to post project updates. Now that Opportunity's out I'm 100% shuttering it (after I spin up a proper gamedev sideblog on here)

Yeah, it's done that to me too. If you "retry payment" on every single line item that failed it will correctly pay that one and then bill on the next billing cycle.

Note that when you do that it sends individual transactions to your card, so your card can get locked for fraud when you do. I'd recommend doing a few a day until it's fixed. 😭

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For the longest time it kept giving me notifications for patreons I unsubscribed from for content I can't see even though it said I had unfollowed them too like bdhsjehd what am I supposed to dooo

We changed the patreon tiers a few months (maybe a year?) ago. If you were on one of the legacy tiers, it may not allow you to resub to it. Might have to unsub and sign up for one of the new ones?

I had the same kind of clownfuckery with CRD's patreon some months ago and I eventually fixed it, but I couldn't tell you which step finally did it. Glad you got it fixed, ish?

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