Knowing a lot of creators, I've been thinking about Patreon's unsustainability and how something might be created as a social purpose corporation to compete with it, focused on the creator/supporter experience and on the open web. Might see what can done to prototype something like this.
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@stevestreza Have you written up your thoughts about its unsustainability anywhere? We just started up a Patreon for the Iconfactory, so I’d be interested in what you think the issues are!
@stevestreza That's a shame. Seems to be the way of everything now - someone comes up with a service everyone loves, and as soon as it starts getting big, they completely change what everyone loved about it.
Server run by the main developers of the project 
It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!
Meanwhile, they have a platform full of long-tail creators making hundreds or thousands of dollars per month that simply go unserved. Creators (of which I know many) have been asking for features that Patreon hasn't added. It took them years to add mobile apps; they still don't have RSS feeds.
In my eyes, they're focused on Growth Growth Growth Growth and that cannot sustain itself.