After being notified of the changes that Patreon is making to their fee structures and seeing the responses from all of my fellow creators about this – I’ve come to a couple of conclusions.
I’ll be pulling stuff off my Patreon probably before the end of the month, to spare my patrons those fees unless they change their tune before it’s effective. I will, however, leave it up until I make the switch to another site. I am still researching options, my dear friend and fellow creator, Kitty Chandler has a breakdown of different options other than Patreon here.
There’s been a lot of buzz about this lately. From the way this was handled to the way they are responding or not responding to the criticisms. My opinion on it is that it is absolutely crap timing, that I will be emailing all of my patrons personally to explain a little more about my rationale, where I’ll be heading and where they can find me. It sucks. It sucks and it’s not fair to my patrons and I hate being pinned between a rock and a hard place.
There will be a longer post later when I have a moment to really stop and compose my thoughts further and when I’m not be-bopping between places like a mad thing because December and because real life is crazy busy this month, even without bringing the holiday into it.