>>>They did NOT present it very well, and pretty much sprung it on
>>>people. When you're handling money for people, this is not a good
>>>level of transparency when you want to make such a sweeping change to
>>>the system.
>>
>>The timing is really unfortunate, too, given that I've just spent the
>>last month watching people on YouTube say things to the general effect
>>of, "Don't sweat the adpocalypse too much, my Patreon is where it's at
>>these days anyway."
>>
>>In fact, now that I've said that, the air of undue haste hanging
>>around the Patreon thing starts to look more explicable.

And it looks like the screaming was too much to ignore. They've backed off, publicly apologized, and said they'll move forward with what they SHOULD have done from the first, which is to talk to creators and see what sort of changes they can make to solve the problems the "move fees to patrons and increase them" was "intended" to solve. Which I still kind of suspect is that they really want the $1 tiers to start going away.