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This is a response to the Patreon story from last week[0]. The thing with Vimeo charging that much for videos is that it doesn’t look like they actually needed
by judge2020 5y ago
This is a response to the Patreon story from last week[0].
The thing with Vimeo charging that much for videos is that it doesn’t look like they actually needed Vimeo. Ya, it’s nice to have rich analytics, but it sounded like they would have been just fine simply distributing the MP4 to subscribers via some file transfer service, eg. WeTransfer.
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30686704 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30686704
- ohgodplsno 5y agoNobody wants to download a 20GB 4K video when you could just watch it online and have a bookmark.
- bobitsaboy 5y agoAh, did not see this one, sorry!
- judge2020 5y agoThat one didn't have vimeo's response IIRC so this is still useful.
- ModernMech 5y agoIt's so funny how that discussion goes exactly the same as the discussion in this article. It's like, you could have predicted all of the comments here before they were even posted.
- dang 5y agoThat's true of surprisingly many follow-up threads—nearly all of them in fact. Most don't contain significant-enough new information to budge the gravity of the discussion.
- BbzzbB 5y agoUnlisted YouTube video or Patreon's native video sharing both sound more appealing than some direct download.
- slenk 5y agoUnlisted Youtube Videos aren't great for content producers though, because if the URL ever gets posted publicly you are screwed.
- shuckles 5y agoFor what it's worth, I think Vimeo doesn't have great authentication support. Most of the Patreons and Kickstarters which I know used it for distribution had a single word password to gate access to content.
- slenk 5y agoAhh, I haven't used Vimeo much. I just know thats the issue a lot of creators have with youtube