This. I literally live off my Patreon and am one of the success stories, have been to Patrecon etc, talked to Jack Conte. I wish he understood that he could do

This. I literally live off my Patreon and am one of the success stories, have been to Patrecon etc, talked to Jack Conte. I wish he understood that he could do the Amazon model. Go 'screw you, investors: we own the entire sector and that will be your return, to have a piece of the only game in town'. I don't know if he can be that arrogant but we need him to be. Moving from a regular payment processor to Patreon involved knocking a decimal place off my revenue and slowly recovering (in a way that was more predictable and consistent). These proposed changes in commission don't alter that underlying fact: the business model is better for an independent creator than much higher but spikier revenue off direct sales. Doing a migration throws all that away. I don't even want to switch to an alternative. I want Patreon to be the Amazon of frictionless-caring-through-money, and my patrons do NOT come from Patreon anyway so there isn't anything really to lose. If they pull a 'Kagi' and blow up, vanishing one day and owing me hundreds or thousands of dollars, that's when I'll be pissed. So far they have not done that and I'm not convinced they will. They don't have to: they're earning shitloads of money quite legitimately. It is only investor logic that has ANYBODY saying they are doomed, and you could have said the same about Amazon all this time. They're Amazon for indie creators. Deal with it.