November Patron Vlog And A Text Rant About Patreon's Dashboard (Patreon)

The Patreon dashboard for creators is absolute ass. I'm honestly shocked that it's as bad as it is. It's worse than going back to a 2006 install of Joomla. There's no unified landing page with important information summed up, it's just a blank wall until you navigate to the sub-pages via the menus, but even those don't do what you think they should.

You'd expect "Posts" to take you to a master landing page for, well, posts. A quick overview of published posts and drafts in basic chronological order. You know, like literally every other web based publisher on the planet.

No.

"Posts" just expands the menu giving you the options New, Drafts, Scheduled, Published, Posts Dashboard, and Engagement.

Now, why the living hell "Posts Dashboard" is its own thing five entries down from the top and not, like, the basic functionality of "Posts" is beyond me. Not that it does what you think it would do. It pulls up a list of only your published posts with some quick stats. No drafts, no scheduled posts. That's right: "Posts Dashboard" is actually analytics, not an actual dashboard for managing posts.

And all that's before the fact that it's unresponsive and prone to devouring posts.

Just attaching the video at the top of this post took twenty attempts.

Anyway, the old text post actually had a really good mini ramble about the way that I've been letting my tech get away from me that I'm going to briefly try to recapture and hope it doesn't get drowned out by how damn salty I am at Patreon.

All of these frame rate experiments, and jumping through the hoops to make 48p content, I'm actually starting to really like the aesthetics of 48, especially for this non-performative stuff. There's an immediacy to it that works really well for vlogs and documentary. But, like, why would you? It's murdering the data rate.

These days I'm recording BRAW 8:1 at 2.8k 48fps and, like, sweet mercy, why would you ever do that? The raw footage for this vlog is a hair over 100GB. You would have to be mad to do that for a vlog. It looks great, though. But still: why? What's wrong with me?

EDIT: I'm editing this because a screen capture that I embedded in the middle of the post attached as a file attachment instead. It turns out you just can't have inline images in a post that already includes a video. Literally worse than Joomla in 2006.