Ways of distributing "media"

Some of you might have heard it already, but Patreon is changing again, and it's obviously not for the better.

Because of their stupid app that everyone hates, anyway, they're going to scrap the "Pay at the 1st of the month" option. Only the subscription option will be offered soon-ish.

That's the one where you join on day X and then get billed again a month later instead of on the 1st of the following month. In theory, that's more consumer-friendly because you always get the full month, no matter when you join, but that also means you'll get billed by Patreon multiple times a month if you support multiple creators, which seems like a mess for watching your spending habits.

On top of that, it sucks for a lot of content creators that have monthly rewards because they can't keep track of who's supposed to get a reward and who's not.

Even worse, creators will lose their fixed monthly income at the start of the month and get dribble payments all over the month.

Fortunately, that's not much of an issue for me because I do not do monthly rewards, and I'm not dependent on the money. After all, all of it is spending-money for art.

The only real immediate issue for me will be Discord. The Patreon Discord bot is broken and doesn't remove the member roles from people if their pledge runs out. Right now, I simply remove/reapply the roles once at the start of the month and be done with it. In the future, I'll have to do that multiple times to make sure everything's in order.

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Now to the actual issue, though!

Patreon blames Apple for having to make this change. They say they have to do this in order to offer Subscriptions through their App, as Apple says subscriptions have to run a fixed amount of time.

Which is a lie, but lets ignore that.

Everyone hates the app, anyway, so simply not offering subscriptions through it in the first place would be the best for anyone, but Patreon thinks otherwise.

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ALSO, NEVER GET A SUBSCRIPTION THROUGH THE APP BECAUSE IT'S 30% MORE EXPENSIVE THAN FROM THE WEBSITE!

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So, why am I complaining if it barely affects us?

Patreon caved into Apple's demand to change its billing system.

(Well, I'm sure they just use it as an excuse to force the subscription billing because that's what they've been doing ever since coming up with it, but that's a different topic.)

I'm sure most of you know what Apple's opinion on NSFW stuff is, right? Especially when it's on their App-Store.

It's almost guaranteed that it's going to be banned entirely soon after that.

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So, what do we do about the horny around here?

The main reward has always been the advanced chapters, and the spicy art grew and became a part over time, but it might be time to think about returning back to SFW on Patreon.

The horny is great fun, though, and I don't want to give up on it, either.

A viable option might be to remove it from Patreon and host it somewhere else. I'll make sure everyone on Patreon can look at it for free, though. It will still be in a similar fashion as the Google Drive/Photos links, just that there won't be a post with the link on Patreon anymore. I have yet to think of the best way of how to inform everyone that there's something new and give them the link.

Option 1: I'll send an E-Mail to everyone. (I can see the E-Mail everyone uses on Patreon)

Issues: Not everyone watches their E-Mails, especially when used just for creating an account here. A lot of work on my part. Lack of engagement. Will be extra complicated for new users to get the old links. Also, I'm not sure about the legal side of simply sending NSFW links to "random" E-Mails xD. As well as people simply not wanting lewd stuff emailed.

Option 2: Discord. We already have a server, and I could just use a channel to post the art. There even would be a place to discuss things. I would much prefer this because it would be the least amount of work for everyone while also being the most convenient.

Issues: Not everyone uses/has Discord. Is horny stuff enough reward to create an account?

If anyone has other ideas, feel free to comment!

Regular/Cure and "reasonably" spicy art will still be accessible from here.

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So, I haven't decided yet, and we might be lucky and have Patreon reverse everything, but I want to know about my options.

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TL:DR: How would everyone feel about putting NSFW stuff away from Patreon? Either distributed via E-Mail or over Discord. Again, it will stay free for supporters regardless of what we decide on.

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If you don't care where you get it from, as long as you do get it, please choose the Discord option, as this would be the most convenient for me xDD

(While at it, also join the Discord~)