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> if I'm reading this correctly this is just Discord becoming a direct competitor to Patreon

Man, really? That sounds great. Patreon sucks really, really hard. It's one of those websites & apps where you're amazed someone managed to screw up that badly. Like, you have to put serious effort into making software as bad as Patreon is. Quibbles about their business model aside, Discord actually knows how to make functional software and a usable UI. I would happily start giving money to Discord if they make a full-featured Patreon competitor.

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Can you elaborate on the issues you're talking about? I support a couple of creators and my interactions with the site have been fine, so I'm curious what issues you have with it.

I support a few web novel authors on Patreon, and the website on mobile is so bad that I read the new chapters in my email client.

In fact, I am extremely hesitant about starting any new subscriptions because of how bad it is. (and I do not look forward to reading all the catchup chapters on that interface, not to mention trying to search through where I left off on the publicly posted content without getting spoiled by chapter titles.)

It takes ages to load, content is not on pages, its all streamed in order, and there is just a ton of lag trying to scroll through and find things.

If you click away and try to come back, welp, good luck finding where you left off, better hope you had that chapter number memorized.

Did I mention the lag? It takes like 10 seconds to load a text only section.

There is search, but again the lag is aweful.

Seconded. The experience of reading book chapters through Patreon is utterly abysmal. I don't know why Royal Road hasn't added direct integration or at least password protection like pirateaba does yet.

I subscribe to a couple of podcasts and adventure/DND audio shows on Patreon. Their audio player works so poorly in Firefox that I literally ended up swapping over to Safari full time for daily browsing just because I was using it so much to listen to those podcasts/DND shows on Patreon.

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