Re:We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change
by myth_drannon on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:17PM
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Well at least LiberaPay got their minute of fame from this fiasco. Their stats shot through the roof.
https://liberapay.com/about/stats
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Re:We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change
by QAkICoU7IDNkpFu on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:39PM
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MakerSupport also gained from Patreon's mistake:
Their rank improved 8,324,736 positions vs Liberapay's 824,569 positions. MS is now rank 578,982 and Liberapay is 586,177 vs Patreon's 461
Data from alexa.com:
Re:We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change
by craftyguy on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:29PM
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Hopefully folks continue to migrate to them. It's pretty clear Patreon is only looking out for themselves at this point, and the "sudden" change in direction is because their bank account started to bleed.
Re:We’re sorry, and we’re not rolling out the fees change
by gkya on Thursday December 14, 2017 @06:09AM
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Every enterprise has to earn a decent amount of money to survive, let alone succeed in a financial way. They'd just start out as a NGO otherwise.
WRT dumping Patreon and the like, I'd rather see community-efforts and enterprise compete. That has lead to some very high quality products from both (e.g. clang vs. gcc, chrome vs. firefox).