Re:GitHub Discussions Beta
by ljm on Saturday February 22, 2020 @07:31AM
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I’d imagine open source is just a small slice of the pie compared to the youtube/twitch/gaming audiences. And I imagine any project earning thousands on Patreon isn’t going to attempt to migrate all of that just to keep it in github.
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It will probably only affect Patreon’s share of FOSS-projects starting today (and thus doesn't already have a Patreon).
Of course if enough people start using GitHub Sponsors, end-users may make it a expectation/demand to be able to sponsor their favourite projects there if they are going to bother (much like users today won’t bother to sign up for a Patreon-competitor).
And then it might start having a noticeable effect.
That said, anecdotally speaking, today only one of my Patreon pledges are for software projects, and most are for youtubers.
If that holds up for other people too, I suspect Patreon will be fine.