What do they even do besides providing a website and payment system?
“What do they even do besides provide the entire platform for the creators?”
Come on man lol. If they were not needed they wouldn’t exist.
They might not remember the days befoee sites like patron
Our prices are increasing for creators who publish a new Patreon page after August 4, 2025
Basically this. So translating from corporate to human they see their business model is stagnating ?
Liberapay is looking pretty good right now.
“Why we’re updating our pricing” mostly says more people are using it than ever, not that they’ve made enough changes to warrant getting extra money.
And I guess that’s technically true. If people are too locked into their platform, then that’s a great reason for them to update their pricing: to benefit themselves over creators.
more people are using it than ever
We’re making more money than ever! But what if we could make even morer money than ever!?
Hey, it’s expensive to host nude comics in s3 and pass payment info into stripe.
They need to double head count because the middle managers need fiefdoms.
They took very large sums of money from venture capital firms. As in many millions. Those now require constant and perpetual number-go-up. This won’t stop getting worse, let alone get better. There are other services. If you’re a creator, use them.
not that they’ve made enough changes to warrant getting extra money.
They’ve added video, which is a pretty substantial expense.
Touché.
They doing soooo much innovating work justify the price. You’ll see guys!
/s
Yeah, have at it, the barrier to entry on taking some payments and distributing it to people is so high that no one else can possibly get in that market…
Reasonable
Why?
Some went up 2% some went down 2%. The cost of doing business is up on every single sector from egg farmer to cloud hosting farmer. It’s childish and ignorant to think costs of services don’t go up over time.
You know it’s a percentage right?
