Just This Once, Everybody Wins (Patreon)

As you've hopefully seen by now, I'm thrilled to confirm that Patreon have indeed backed down in full over the new fee structure - https://blog.patreon.com/not-rolling-out-fees-change/

I think this is a win for all of you in the community, for all creators, and will in the long run be a win for Patreon itself.

And I want to thank you for helping - I've been communicating pretty much constantly with Patreon on this, but I'm only one person, and I know many of you made your displeasure known to Patreon by Twitter or email. Such a high level of negative reception will have helped shape this climbdown.

So just for today, everybody wins.

It is, of course, worrying that it got this far in the first place. In some ways, the most important promise in that blog post is the assurance that future big changes will come only after consultation with creators. 

When that happens, I'll be there to make sure the system is fair to you - and if it's not, I'll be just as vocal about why it's a bad system.

But tonight, we celebrate.

Cheers,

Jon