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Juan Linietsky on Twitter: "Thank you @patreon, great way to piss off our s...
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Thank you , great way to piss off our small backers. You are playing with actual people's income here, and we don't even have a say in all this.
What are they doing? I'm surmising that Patreon is taking an unreasonable amount from small payments?
they force a +0.35c on all pledges, so our $1 and $5 backers (which are quite a lot) are becoming pissed.
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well, this pisses mostly the small backers (we have a lot of them), i think it was a really stupid decision..
is Liberapay an option for Godot?
Government taxing the richest amongst us = BAD
Corporations charging exuberant amounts to people donating what little they can spare = GOOD
Way to go world, I'm proud of you /sarcasm
probably related to taxes or handling the payments.
O .O wow i lost the respect that i have about the thats a lot for 1 dollar donation, it would be better to do a minimum donation of 1.5 o 2 dollars that way at least people wont get screw with extra charges for donating. if this is on all patreons thats a lot of money
Most likely payment fees. 30 cents is common on e-commerce services, the main difference being it's often deducted from the seller's revenue rather than added to the client/supporter's fees
That's what they changed basically, and while it seems OK at first (creators get more, and the total payment fee is lower than before in average), it killed the $1 pledge model.
This system should be applied on the *total* amount pledged by a given user, not each pledge.
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It also doesn't make a whole lot of sense because Patreon does a single debit to cover all your pledges, so I don't get why they're charging per pledge.
Okay, I see they're going to split multiple pledges into separate deductions just so that they can be paid on pledge anniversaries? Who the hell thought that was a good idea or a solution to anything?
I have a lot of respect for you guys and I hope this post will be an opportunity for you to get things done the right way. Loosing "small" backers is a loose-loose situation for EVERYONE, you included. So please do something about it!
Ahi estuve leyendo un poco. Bastante eatupido lo que plantean. Espero que den marcha atras. Si lo que les preocupa es lo poco predecible del porcentaje de pagos deberian absorber y distribuir ellos el riesgo.
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