I need to hear your opinion
Added 2025-06-03 10:47:10 +0000 UTCI'm going to change the reward system a little.
I plan to switch to a monthly pack of materials. On Patreon, I will publish web size preview images, and I will publish the work in Discord with a link. At the end of the month, I will send a link to a folder with files. Depending on your tier, there will be high-resolution materials, step by step, speedpaint and possibly PSD files (I'm still thinking about it, because I'm not sure if anyone will be interested.).
Please share your opinion, how is it more convenient and enjoyable for you to receive content. Do you use Discord? Are you subscribed to other artists, how do they publish their materials and which method do you like the most.
Please contact me on Telegram or Discord @/Danomil if you have something to say!
Thank you!
Aaaand I have news, I figured out the Timelaps recording and now it works again. So I'm resuming the ability to watch Timelapses of arts for tier $10 and $25.
Comments
foxovh is a good example of someone who applies the above strategy.
ShadyCrafts
2025-06-04 11:53:06 +0000 UTCHeya, I have been supporting people on Patreon for a good few years now. Usually, a thing I'm super happy to find is when an artist has their gallery uploaded to a hosting service that allows for easy browsing and download. I understand that comes with downsides, but when I start supporting a new artist, it's always very painful when Patreon is the only way to see their gatekept art. Patreon is extremely slow to load and browse, especially if an artist has a large archive. mega.nz is often used for that. Some artists will do separate folders per month and share that. They often share the per-month or full archive links in Discord only, to avoid it being scraped by Patreon scrapers. It's no guranrantee those won't leak, but it is something. Though, in my opinion, prioritizing supporting users' experience should be the first goal, over trying to protect content from leaking. It will basically always leak, so it's better to accommodate the supporting users firs and not worry about leaks too much. An often used strategy is 1 pinned patreon post with links to the archives for different tiers. Then each link goes to a post that's visible only to the specified tier. And in each tier post, there is a link to a mega.nz archive for that tier. To me, this is the best way of doing it + uploading normal quality versions of all posts to Patreon as well. That way, supporters get notifications when new work is uploaded + there is the big archive to access when necesary.
ShadyCrafts
2025-06-04 11:51:20 +0000 UTC
