Posts temporarily inaccessible (Patreon)

Patreon recently made us aware that posting adult content publicly is a violation of their terms of use. Adult content may only be viewable by patrons. Because of this, we've had to make most of our formerly public posts into patrons only. Furthermore, there doesn't seem to be a way to become a patron unless you pay, since you cannot create reward tiers for $0, which means that this content cannot be free on Patreon with their current policies and implementation.

We really liked the setup of posting information to our $3 tier patrons first, and then making it available to everyone. Unfortunately, that setup doesn't seem to be supported right now on Patreon. I have written a suggestion to them, asking for a way to make adult content free while not publicly viewable, so their terms are not violated and users can still read these posts for free.

The alternative is to post this content elsewhere after a week has passed, for example on a blog. However, I dislike this idea because it fractures the community. Instead of having all information and feedback contained in the same place, we'd have it in several places. Not to mention that setting up a blog on our server would take time from us - both now and later for maintenance reasons. It's something we'd rather avoid.

We're now awaiting a reply from Patreon. Until then, these posts are unfortunately only viewable by patrons.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

We hope you understand.

All the best.

- odes

P.S.

I just wanted to add that I think it's perfectly understandable that Patreon doesn't want NSFW content to be publicly viewable by anyone. It's quite common you need some form of login to access such content on other sites (for example fur affinity). I do however disagree that you have to pay to access such content. I'm not sure if that was an intentional choice they made, or just an unintentional consequence when they tried to limit this type of material to certain users. It may very well be that this was the easiest way for them to solve this issue, since a patron system is already in place, and they can easily limit things to patrons, while making NSFW system would require additional implementation. The requirement to pay might be an unintentional side effect of this implementation. At least to me it makes no sense that all content except adult content can be accessed for free.