r/patreon

genuinely curious because it feels like almost every creator i follow has a patreon for the money side and then something else entirely for the actual community side and i want to know if that's just the norm now

like patreon handles the subscription and the content delivery really well but it has always felt weirdly cold as a community space. there's no real back and forth, no live conversation, no place where your supporters actually talk to each other and feel like they belong to something together. it's more like a content library than a community

so people end up building the actual relationship somewhere else and just using patreon as the payment layer

i'm curious what platforms people are using alongside it and more importantly why that specific one. is it purely because your audience was already there or did you actually evaluate options and land on something intentionally

also for people who have been doing this a while, do you find that having a second platform actually increases your patreon retention or does it just create more work for you with no real financial difference

and for the people who tried to keep everything inside patreon only, how did that go because i've seen patreon add community features over the years and i've never once heard a creator say those features replaced what they were doing elsewhere

what's your current setup and would you change anything about it

For context my youtube channel posts a once a month podcast and not much else but if to add more videos, that very sporetic is it really worth it?

...That they sent you, in response to you inquiring seriously about bad treatment during an in-person event?

Rather than apologize or explain themselves, they just sent you more rudeness via PM?

Did you report them and get a result? Or something similar to that?

Thanks.

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I detest smartphones. Own one. Never use it except to make calls.

I prefer to stay on the web, via my PC. I'm not a gamer, so I've never installed an android emulator.

But it appears that the new promotional features on Patreon are app-only features. I am very angry about that, but not here to vent. (I've already vented to Patreon, for all the difference it will make.)

Is anybody using a lightweight emulator (I don't need a lot of bloat. Not a gamer. Not a web developer.) for the Patreon app? How's it working?

So Patreon is of course forcing everyone to combine profiles, so they can become something more like the Instagram of community support.

I created a profile at some point, a test account really, for a project that's not gone anywhere and I'm not using. But am I forced to become THAT profile specifically?

I have no use for my creator profile, I'd much rather merge the other direction, deactivate it, etc.

Patreon used to have goals but got rid of it and I don't understand why.

But if they are not gonna add that back, why can't they add an official tip jar or one-time contribution for specific things?

I'd love to find a way to "drive" my Patreons to fundraise a specific project without having them increase their monthly pledge. It's way easier to ask for an extra $10 one time vs an extra $10 PER MONTH on top of a sub.

It also needs to be easy, not "hidden" somewhere. I don't understand their rationale.

Genuinely curious how other creators handle this.

I sell on a few platforms and every month end I'm opening multiple tabs, doing math by hand, trying to figure out my actual net after fees. Patreon shows one number, whatever else I use shows another, and none of them agree on what I actually kept.

Do you have a system that actually works? Spreadsheet? Some tool I don't know about? Or are you just guessing like I was?

i have a creator page and it's still unpublished, so i can't 'unpublish' it, which is how every other source is telling me to delete it. i'm trying to get rid of it because patreon said it will merge both of my accounts soon and i don't want that, but i have no clue how to get rid of my unpublished creator page.

should i publish and then unpublish it? would that work?

I edit and share audio dramas/eroticas and I usually tend to post twice maybe three times a week since I only work a part time job IRL and Patreon and commissions help cover my other expenses, but I’m worried if posting even that much might be a problem; quantity over quality, as they say. i Haven‘t had anyone actually complain that my quality is falling off and my earnings are still healthy, though to be fair, I don’t really have many friends who are experts in audio editing to guide me. Am I overthinking this or should I post less to try and space out posts and maybe get new subscribers? Can anyone weigh in here?

I'm kinda stuck. I make music, and have a 3 tier patreon. Tier one is basic supporter, with access to discord, streaming previews, general updates and some bts stuff. Tier 2 gets mp3 with more discord access and early releases, tier 3 gets mp3 and wav files as well as one on one discord permissions, song suggestions, wip songs.

I want to give an early release of a song to my patrons based on tier. Do I have to make three posts? One post for each tier? I am trying to make one post that they all see, but are only allowed what their tier gives access to like preview for tier one, mp3 for tier 2, and wav for tier 3, is this not possible?

I don't want to make three posts for each song I upload, seems like it would make the page really confusing.

Any help is appreciated.

Not my copyright, but a Fanfic creator/translator recently moved to patreon from Webnovel, and scribble hub, and has re-released the translations and fanfictions they did behind a 50usd paywall per fiction.

So far I have reported them to the parent Studio of the works they are violating, so we will see what the studio says but does patreon not like check this sort of thing to avoid legal trouble?

I’ve been posting on Patreon for about 1.5 years. I write serialized fiction, so usually when people join, they stay until I complete the novel I’m currently posting.

Today, I made a new Patreon post after about a week-long gap, and I noticed something unusual. I got a lot of traffic, but not from Instagram, which is where my traffic usually comes from. This time, it seemed to be coming from Patreon itself.

I ended up getting four new members today, but all four subscribed and then cancelled almost immediately. None of them left an exit survey. This has never happened to me before.

I’m wondering if this could be because of the newer Patreon UI/recommendation feed. Maybe regular Patreon users discovered my page through Patreon, joined to check out the locked content, and then cancelled right away so they wouldn’t get billed again next month. Or maybe they joined, realized the content wasn’t for them, and cancelled.

Has anyone else seen this kind of behavior recently — especially traffic coming from Patreon itself rather than your usual external sources?

Does my theory make sense, or am I missing something obvious?

Also, would you DM the people who cancelled to politely ask why, or would that come across as awkward?

as some have said, the basic setup of patreon has worked well for a while; people pay to see your content and you share the content to them. but it seems like these new changes are going to a lot of harm somehow, unless I am misinterpreting the consequences of what they're currently doing.

is anyone here planning to leave patreon because of this? or is there a way to adapt?

I mean get grow from patreon and who in the website

I do not want my creator profile and fan profile merged together.

Zero idea why anyone thought this was a great idea, especially since they specifically acknowledge the 18+ creators.

I am going to have to unfollow everyone I support and pull my funding to them. Which is a shame because I have been supporting some of them for years :(

I'm not going to make a second patreon just to keep them separate either because THEY ALREADY ARE RIGHT NOW. Having 2 patreons and 2 different log ins is going to be annoying and inconvenient so they are just going to lose money.

Why do companies get restless and do random things no one asked for? Instead just enjoy the fact that no one is asking for it because it means you have a working system no one wants changed!!!

Hey patreon, please revert the change to welcome notes. They no longer display for members in their membership tabs for some reason.

Because patreon is unable to protect against people gaining full access to all locked content on patreon by certain external websites, many creators including myself rely on membership notes to give members access to content (via periodically updated links to sharing sites such as MEGA).

This obviously does not work if the membership note does not show up for members in their membership page. Please fix, thank you.

think about what patreon actually was in the beginning and why it worked. it was dead simple. creator uploads a video, fan pays to watch it, done. it was basically youtube but with a paywall and that was the entire genius of it. no algorithm, no chasing trends, no fighting for attention in a feed. just a direct transaction between a creator and the people who actually wanted to support them

that simplicity is what made it feel safe. creators knew exactly what they were building. fans knew exactly what they were paying for. there was no noise

and patreon just sat on that for a decade. barely touched the interface. didn't improve discovery, didn't improve the video experience, didn't improve payouts, didn't do anything really. creators built their entire income on the platform basically in spite of the product not because of it

and now after ten years of silence the big innovation is a scrollable feed

a feed. on a paid platform. where most content is locked behind a paywall. the thing that makes social media work is frictionless free content that spreads and pulls new people in. that is the opposite of what patreon is. you cannot build a scroll feed out of content that 90% of visitors cannot even see. At this point it is better I look at subscribestar, stagetown or kofi. however, kofi cant host videos.

they had the most loyal creator base on the internet and the simplest working model and somehow the answer was let's make it more complicated

does anyone actually want this or is it just me??

My profiles are combining soon, but I've barely used my creator account (did something for less than a month and then quit, already unpublished), only been active as a member lately and not planning to do pick up my creator account again. Can I somehow delete my creator account while retaining my member account so I don't show up as my creator account in the creators I'm subscribed to?