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Hi all,

To try and combat those individuals who are ripping my patreon content and posting it on other websites, I have decided to follow the advice of a few other artists, and relocate all the finished pieces to an online storage site (Drop Box/Google Drive), rather than posting them directly on Patreon. 

We have 2 options:

1. Goolge Drive - I can save artwork here and post a link to the folder at the beginning of each month. You must have a valid gmail email attached to your patreon account for this to automatically allow you access, otherwise you will have to request access each month via the link.

** If you request access and your email does not appear in your Patreon account, I will have no way to validate you. **

2. DropBox - I can save work here and then send the link to your Patreon email, but it will be a different link for each file rather than a folder share. This is because there does not seem to be a way to limit access to folders to memebers without a paid account.


Neither of these are an ideal solution and it is more work for me to do, but I can't think of a better way to stop the thieves. 

Please let me know which you would feel more comfortable with doing.

Berri.

Comments

Anonymous

Google drive I think is the way to go

Anonymous

Google drive

Anonymous

Yeah, think Google Drive is the better solution of the 2

Anonymous

If I don’t have a gmail account attached to our patreon, do you want to keep a list of people with alternate email accounts so that you can give us access?

wishberri

I've tried adding non gmail accounts the members list but it seems to have a problem with adding them. I've just granted your yahoo email access you requested. Can you let me know if it worked?

Anonymous

It looks like it did

wishberri

Great! You may have to do this each month though if you do not use a gmail account. Beccause patreons change each month I need to refresh the list to make sure they are still active. Importng a csv from Patreon does work with Google Contacts but when i try add they group with mixed gmail/hotmail/yahoo etc accounts it keeps failing. I will continue to try find a work around, but if everyone can make a free gmail account it will garantee access automatically each month.

Anonymous

Another option might be to have it set so that only people with the shareable link can have access to the folder and then mass send out the link in a message on patreon?

wishberri

I could just send out a link to everyones email on Patreon, but the trouble is that people join at different times during the month, and if they are not active when I send out the link they will miss it . I'd need to email each new memebr everytime someone joined. I could send it on the last day of the month, but then all of you have to wait to see the artwork until then.

Anonymous

Huh... Thanks for this. Just realised I've got the wrong email address attached to my Patreon account 😅

Anonymous

I just said screw it and made my attached address on here my gmail. Hopefully, that’ll make things more helpful in the future.

Anonymous

Yep Google drive is a good idea

wishberri

The email you requested access from is different from the one on you rPatreon account...

Anonymous

Yeah, idk why I had a personal account connected to this Patreon. I've just fixed that there 😅 the one currently connected is the one it should have been. Sorry for any confusion

Anonymous

Google Drive would probably be the best bet unless you were to use the Discord and set up locked channels limited to specific roles.

wishberri

I was thinking about Discord but sadly it seems they can scrape those too!

Dunder Thunder

My Gmail tbh, cause Dropbox at this point just takes up space, and I don’t know how to really use it anyways

Anonymous

FYI, the folder invitation you sent via GDrive shows the e-mail address of every receiver. Not cool. Otherwise I don't mind either GDrive or Dropbox, I know some other artists use a simpler system based on a password changing each-month via dropdox (so a patreon post is made to give the new password eahc month). Might be more convenient, this way you don't have to micro-manage each account individually (especially if they are not gmail based).

wishberri

I was having a lot of issues with trying to share the folder earlier, and I think during one of the times I was uploading the members list it failed and I refreshed the page to try again without checking the notification settings. Im sorry that your email was exposed to others. It was an accident and I really didnt mean for it to happen.

wishberri

Unfortunatly a password being posted each month would be scraped the same as the rest of the content.

Anonymous

They can, but not without at least paying for a month really, but that's still gonna lead to people just joining every few months to grab everything new.

Anonymous

I would say probably Google drive, I'm really sorry you're having to deal with this 😔

Anonymous

I know another creator on patreon who posts the password in the tags of a post