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Apps are more sticky. Users forget about websites more easily
by iknowstuff 9mo ago
Apps are more sticky. Users forget about websites more easily
- grishka 9mo agoIt's highly unlikely for someone to use the internet in 2020s but be unaware that Patreon is a thing.
- oneeyedpigeon 9mo agoPatreon isn't something you need to be checking all the time, though, unless you patronise a LOT of people. It can pretty much be a "setup and forget" kinda deal.
- cybrox 9mo agoA lot of people pay for the exclusive content which is curated on Patreon and their app.
- oneeyedpigeon 9mo agoOh, fair enough — I've only known Patreon the 'open' way before. So the Patreon app is actually an exclusive publisher of some content? Do they actually market that feature?
- debugnik 9mo agoNearly every Patreon creator I know of has subscription tiers with exclusive content. Posts can require a minimum tier to view them, creator pages list the tiers you can join, and your feed teases you posts you could access if you joined the right tier from creators you follow.
- Izkata 9mo agoBut not exclusive to the app, as far as I know it's just another interface to that same exclusive content available through the website.
- debugnik 9mo agoDiscussion here started on whether users check apps more often than websites and whether Patreon is the kind of platform that one might want to check often for new content. I'm not sure how has the goalpost here moved to app-exclusivity, I understood exclusive here to mean "exclusive to Patreon" as opposed to supporting a creator that posts everything for free somewhere else, which is the use case that made that one user assume one doesn't check on Patreon often. Also, mobile browsers easily cut out background audio so the website is nearly useless on a phone for audio posts compared to the app, as much as I'd prefer it.
- Izkata 9mo agoThey specifically said "app" which is why I interpreted it as exclusive to the app. The other way around is a little confusing as a question because that's the primary purpose of Patreon and is mentioned on the homepage marketing (multiple payment tiers with exclusive content).
- debugnik 9mo agoI'm willing to consider that they moved the goalpost and not you, but I still don't get how has this thread diverged. I too got confused by oneeyedpigeon's question but I assumed from their claim about it being "setup and forget" that they simply don't know much about it.
- oneeyedpigeon 9mo agoYou're half right; I just use Patreon differently, that's all. Upon reading your original comment, I remembered about the exclusive content, but that's something that's never personally interested me. I do use Patreon exclusively with a desktop browser, but I don't visit the site all that often because I tend to just subscribe to support a creator, then leave.
- cybrox 9mo agoI should have probably said: "[...] exclusive content which is curated on [the creators] Patreon and [accessible to the user via the web browser or] their app." Hope this clears things up. My main point was that there is in fact an incentive for users to check the app beyond setting up payment and forgetting about it. Even if it is not the only way such content is available, it certainly is a convenient one.