

Worse, because these artists are using these separate services there is no way to limit who accesses them. They do provide a way to upload media but the UX is awful compared to Mega which has arguably the superior UX of those 5 options. This seems like money Pateron is leaving on the table if they'd provide for a similar service at similar prices. It's telling that so many artists use google drive, dropbox, mediafire, or mega to distribute their works. If you want to do it again tomorrow, or if the site crashes which it does, you have to start over at post 1 and page through again. The stream is JavaScript driven so if you want to go 100 posts back you have to page through multiple pages of posts. There just "here's the stream of posts by the artist". Patreon provides a piss-poor UX for getting to this content.

Fans sign up to support them but also to get access to their library of content. There are lots of independent artists running Pateron accounts with 200-5000 patrons. I have no idea about the financials of Patreon but their site leaves so much room for improvement.
