Patreon laid off their security team

Re:Patreon laid off their security team by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 08, 2022 @07:44PM (#32773555)

Generally, their users don't need a platform, they need a payment processor.

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Re:Patreon laid off their security team by ZephyrBlu on Thursday September 08, 2022 @07:59PM (#32773672)

If they didn't need a platform they could use Stripe directly.

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Re:Patreon laid off their security team by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 08, 2022 @08:01PM (#32773687)

If stripe had a better UI and would batch payments then that would work pretty well, yeah. As-is that would probably not work out well.

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Re:Patreon laid off their security team by ZephyrBlu on Thursday September 08, 2022 @09:42PM (#32774329)

So you're saying that platforms are useful...

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Re:Patreon laid off their security team by Dylan16807 on Friday September 09, 2022 @12:15AM (#32775217)

We're talking about payment processing vs. platform, right?

"Good UI" doesn't make something a platform.

Doing payments in a fee-minimizing way definitely doesn't make something a platform.

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Re:Patreon laid off their security team by stevenicr on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:06AM (#32779404)

I've been under the impression that patreon makes a bunch of their cash from people selling nudes (and perhaps owes their brand popularity to the groups of nude sellers that were using them) and that stripe refuses to deal with anyone that does nudes (?)

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