There are two big problems with Patreon that come to my mind immediately. One is repeated issues with kicking creators off for poorly explained reasons.

The other is that they seem to hate the idea of batching transactions. For me the biggest draw of Patreon is that I can have 10 $1 pledges and only pay one credit card fee each month. But they keep messing with the backend and they've forced new creators into a completely different system that does separate charges. According to them they don't even make more money off this, so why are they so stubbornly insistent on charging these pledges a 40% overhead?

Overall they don't listen very well, and they grabbed this big pile of VC cash to do god-knows-what with and motivate them way too much to increase fees.

> Patreon CEO says the company’s generous business model is not sustainable

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21550645