#indieweb 2017-12-08

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gRegorLove
Patreon updated their fee structure. They're not passing the transaction fee along to the patron. 2.9% + .35 per transaction. A lot of people on Twitter annoyed by it, reporting they're losing patrons.
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gRegorLove
s/not/now/
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sknebel
unless they are changing their billing system (but why wouldn't they say that if that's what they have to do for X reason), it's not "passing transaction fee along"
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sknebel
oh, nvm, they added the explanation to the post
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@eevee
tl;dr of patreon change: - patrons will now be charged transaction fees separately; they used to come out of the pledge amount - $1 pledge now costs you $1.37 - creators get more, and it's more predictable and closer to the actual pledge total - patreon quietly gets more too
(twitter.com/_/status/938543853644128258)
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sknebel
so it *is* passing the fee along, because they restructured their billing in a way to remove one of the primary benefits of using patreon
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gRegorLove
Yeah, seeing reports that Paypal is 2.9% + .30 per transaction, so some people are just moving there.
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sknebel
yeah. it's really bad for people giving out many of tiny pledges, so either they thought those people aren't price-sensitive enough or that they are not important overall (I have no idea what the actual pledge distribution figures look like, so maybe that's true)
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@tmcw
next indieweb goal: quit goodreads
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tantek
what is goodreads
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Loqi
Goodreads is a silo for keeping track of books, reviews, and reading progress https://indieweb.org/Goodreads
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tantek
what is a pledge
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "pledge" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "pledge is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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gRegorLove
That's a big goal
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tantek
users of Patreon ^^^ want to define /pledge ?
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tantek
what is a donation
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "donation" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "donation is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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tantek
what is donate
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Loqi
open collective is a service for collecting donations and transparently tracking how the money is used https://indieweb.org/donate
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tantek
is a pledge a regular automatic donation?
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tantek
that's worthy of defining, as much as something that makes sense to do indie rather than silo
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gRegorLove
pledge is a recurring [[donation]]
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tantek
what is a donation
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "donation" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "donation is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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gRegorLove
what is payment
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Loqi
payment in the context of the indieweb refers to a feature on an indie web site that provides a way for the visitor to that website to pay (currency, gift card credit, etc.) the person represented by that indie web site https://indieweb.org/payment
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tantek
not really, payment is both more general, and tends to imply "for something"
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tantek
... in particular
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gRegorLove
With Patreon there's the option to pledge per-item created, e.g. $X per YouTube video uploaded.
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gRegorLove
Or it can just be a flat donation per-month
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gRegorLove
Some patrons are just being generous, I'm sure, but there's almost always patron-only content, so it's sorta for something.
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gRegorLove
I back a podcast I enjoy because I want to help them, but also because I enjoy the patron-only episodes they release.
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@manton2
Two new podcast episodes today: Core Intuition 308 is a full hour about the MarsEdit 4 release. Timetable 90 is a full… 6 minutes about IndieWebCamp and my week. https://coreint.org/308
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@ChrisAldrich
@briannaorg Thanks for the slides! I wish I could have attended in person. I've linked them on the #IndieWeb wiki for others in the future. https://indieweb.org/commonplace_book
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Loqi
[superfeedr] "@briannaorg Thanks for the slides! I wish I could have attended in person. I've linked them on the #IndieWeb wiki for others in the future." by Chris Aldrich on 2017-12-08 http://stream.boffosocko.com/2017/briannaorg-thanks-for-the-slides-i-wish-i-could-have
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Loqi
Just generated the first draft of this week's newsletter! https://indieweb.org/this-week/2017-12-08.html I'll generate a draft again tomorrow, so please add to it before then! https://indieweb.org/this-week#How_to
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@cleverdevil
@hartley Invite codes are temporary while the platform is under beta. It’s built on the #IndieWeb, and enables you to participate using your existing website/blog using something like WordPress. I have invite codes if you want one 😉
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jeremycherfas
Good morning IndieWeb
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schmarty
Good morning IndieWeb! I am off to the airport bound for Austin!
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@schmarty
BWI ✈️ AUS On my way to Austin for IndieWebCamp!
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Zegnat
Interesting idea, basically running a local email server so you can connect your favourite email client and that local server then takes care of all the encrypting of email etc before actually sending it away: https://thenextweb.com/security/2017/12/07/protonmail-bridge-is-an-accessible-encryption-solution-for-apple-mail-outlook-and-thunderbird/
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ancarda
Hmm, that's a neat idea, Zegnat. Do you know of a generic solution that isn't tied to ProtonMail? e.g. would sign all outbound email, and encrypt to recipients who have trusted keys in your keyring?
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Zegnat
No, this is the first time I ever saw someone to a local bridging server like that. Which is why I thought it was interesting.
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sknebel
I've seen that as a company-level thing a few times
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Loqi
[superfeedr] "Remote Goals for IWC Austin" by Michael Bishop on 2017-12-08 https://miklb.com/2017/12/remote-goals-for-iwc-austin/
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tantek
goodness 280 is so much
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aaronpk
Your don't *have* to use them all
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tantek
I know! it feels so weird
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tantek
what is a native app
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "native app" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "native app is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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tantek
what is an app
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Loqi
Apps are less functional versions of web sites that are usually restricted to one or more proprietary platforms https://indieweb.org/app
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tantek
native app is /app
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tantek
what is an app quit
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "app quit" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "app quit is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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Loqi
[Chris Aldrich] It’s not the bigger Twitter quit I’ve been debating for a while, but I’ve just taken the intermediate step of removing the Twitter app and its notifications from my phone. I’m going to be using a handful of feed readers to more purposefully c...
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Zegnat
Hmm. I am starting to see some people coming with “host it yourself” as a response to Patreon’s recent fee changes. That’s going to be interesting.
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tantek
Zegnat hence /pledge
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tantek
could you add those responses to that page as Brainstorming ?
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[jeremycherfas]
That’s definitely the way I’m leaning. I doubt that I will have anything implemented this weekend, but I have sent an email to my Patrons.
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aaronpk
Thankfully Stripe makes it super easy to do
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aaronpk
I wouldn't be surprised if there isn't already an open source project that solves this. Check the list of stripe apps maybe?
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tantek
what is Stripe
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Loqi
Stripe is a service for processing credit card payments https://indieweb.org/Stripe
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tantek
aaronpk - worth adding to /Stripe#Brainstorming about how to implement [[pledge]] support
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[jeremycherfas]
As the site is a WP one, I’ve already scoped out Stripe and two plugins. Maybe I will have something by Monday :)
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aaronpk
Stripe << https://stripe.com/works-with a list of services and open source projects that use Stripe for payments, possibly one or more of these could be used for [[pledge]] support
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Loqi
ok, I added "https://stripe.com/works-with a list of services and open source projects that use Stripe for payments, possibly one or more of these could be used for [[pledge]] support" to the "See Also" section of /Stripe
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tantek
pledge << [[Stripe#Brainstorming]] for how to use Stripe to implement pledge support on your own site.
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Loqi
ok, I added "[[Stripe#Brainstorming]] for how to use Stripe to implement pledge support on your own site." to the "See Also" section of /pledge
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@cleverdevil
Some great memories from my website's "On This Day" feature today – https://cleverdevil.io/onthisday/12/08 #indieweb #ownyourmemories
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Loqi
[superfeedr] "Some great memories from my website's &quot;On This Day&quot; feature today – https://cleverdevil.io/onthisday/12/08 #indieweb #ownyourmemories" by Jonathan LaCour on 2017-12-08 https://cleverdevil.io/2017/some-great-memories-from-my-websites-quoton-this-dayquot-feature
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gRegorLove
Howdy, #indieweb
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tantek
howdy, gRegorLove
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dgold
hey up
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dgold
Zegnat: isn't kickstarter about to launch a patreon-clone?
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Zegnat
Could be, though it would be nice to see people self-host it.
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gRegorLove
I'd heard that, yeah
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Zegnat
With the new fee structure, it is actually more expensive for people to pledge to you on Kickstarter than if you had Stripe set-up on your own. Stripe adds a flat transaction fee of 30 cents, Kickstarter is going to add 35.
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tantek
wow that's nuts
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gRegorLove
Same with Paypal. They're 2.9% + .30
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tantek
talk about nickel & diming
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gRegorLove
Interesting thing that I didn't capture in the news yesterday is that they're moving from one lump charge for all your patronage on the 1st of the month to individual charges on the anniversary of when you pledged.
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gRegorLove
So if you pledge $1 to 20 people, you get those fees 20 times.
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Zegnat
That’s actually kinda why they are changing it. Because they want to change their billing system completely.
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Zegnat
They just forgot to communicate that clearly to anyone until they added an “update” to their blog post.
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gRegorLove
And all, seemingly, to avoid the issue of people pledging, getting benefits before the first charge on the 1st of the next month.
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gRegorLove
Which seems like the laziest way to solve that problem
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Zegnat
Because apparently a pro-rate system is totally unheard off, he
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Zegnat
I also thought it interesting how they are doing this after testing and communication from creators. And now all creators are freaking out together with their patrons :P
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Zegnat
Also yet to have seen a creator that knew about this beforehand.
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gRegorLove
Hank Green is on their advisory board and didn't hear about it beforehand
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Zegnat
Oh, I haven’t looked up if the Greens had any comment on this.
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Zegnat
But wow that feels like a huge oversight...
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gRegorLove
Looking for tweets...
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gRegorLove
Yeah, @hankgreen was talking about it a lot yesterday, and apparently had to backtrack because even he was confused by it at first.
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@hankgreen
@SuedeBlade They did not. I don't know what I would have told them if they had, though.
(twitter.com/_/status/938976839623622656)
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Zegnat
Their communication has been more than horrible.
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dougbeal|mb1
what is Drip
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "Drip" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "Drip is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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Zegnat
An example they cited for why the system needed a change to me just showed they were bad at communicating finances to creators:
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Zegnat
Yes, 1/11 is an expected loss, as 5% goes to Patreon and than another ~4% is going to the different payment processors. That’s exactly how Patreon works. As a creator, you should probably have that communicated to you.
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Zegnat
“I am in general very happy with the revenue and number of patrons, but the high fees put a serious dent in the gains. Of $11k, almost $1k goes to fees!”
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dougbeal
what is Patreon
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Loqi
Patreon is a crowd-based, recurring funding site to support and pay content creators https://indieweb.org/Patreon
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dougbeal
Drip is a crowd-based, recurring funding site to support and pay content creators. Created by Kickstarter.
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gRegorLove
dougbeal++
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Loqi
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dougbeal
I didn't see anything about pricing on Drip
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gRegorLove
Is it live, or upcoming?
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dougbeal
I guess its invite-only
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dgold
my issue with Patreon's change is that whereas before my creators were getting c.73% of my pledge, that now drops to c.55%
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dgold
(i only back at $1)
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gRegorLove
Of the pledge, or the total amount charged?
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dgold
and backing at $1 now cost me $1.70
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dgold
gRegorLove: total amount charged
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Zegnat
Agreed dgold.
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Zegnat
This graphic someone made on Twitter, with actual numbers instead of Patreon’s own nice percentages and stuff, really shows the money that disappears: https://twitter.com/wombatoverlord/status/938849760198447104
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@wombatoverlord
@KBSpangler @UrsulaV Yep. And their messaging is sloppy. I decided to redo their explanatory figure to show the actual impact. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQd24IAWsAAFQFG.jpg
(twitter.com/_/status/938849760198447104)
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gRegorLove
$1 should be $1.38? (Not that it makes it much better. Agreed with you)
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dgold
gRegorLove: no, mate
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Zegnat
Although to be fair, I think that was made before it was made clear that they were planning to start charging differently
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dgold
$1 becomes $1.38, then you stick VAT @23% on top of the whole lot
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gRegorLove
Ahh, VAT
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gRegorLove
Yeah, no bueno :/
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dgold
as I said on one creators conversation about this, I could swallow 23c when I was informed by (at least one) creator that she was getting 90c
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tantek
definitely interested in helping figure out (and prototype, etc.) indieweb ways of doing patronage
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dgold
Zegnat: bugs the crap out of me that that graphic doesn't account for VAT
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Zegnat
Yeah, but I got used to USians ignoring that in their graphics, dgold...
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Zegnat
It does show a projection of what gets lost on $1 pledges. So I do wonder if Patreon is going to see a shift away from $1 pledges.
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dgold
a shift to 0 in my case
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tantek
I wonder what is/was their long tail of $1 pledges
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dgold
I'm not paying them 23% vat on a service charge of 35c
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Zegnat
Example of indie Patreon that I saw mentioned in one of the twitter threads btw: http://www.bradfordloomis.com/patronage/
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tantek
what is patron
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "patron" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "patron is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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tantek
what is patronize
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "patronize" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "patronize is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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tantek
what is patronage
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Loqi
It looks like we don't have a page for "patronage" yet. Would you like to create it? (Or just say "patronage is ____", a sentence describing the term)
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Zegnat
And seeing loads of examples of specifically low pledges dropping off. E.g. Mastodon dev: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/99135019381341007
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Loqi
[Festive Eugen] I'm a bit worried about this whole Patreon business. -9 patrons so far, although I'm still positive on pledge changes this month. I also realize I'm much luckier than other creators having so much support and being able to do this full-time. But it's...
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@brucehs_ld
@jdelgadoesteban Cool. Thanks for the info. I do like their support of the Indieweb (http://Micro.blog in particular), but I think I'm going to look into some other options too.
(twitter.com/_/status/939225338231640064)
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tantek
what is pledge
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Loqi
pledge is a recurring donation https://indieweb.org/pledge
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@brucehs_ld
@jdelgadoesteban @DreamHost Cool. Thank you for the info. :) I do like their support of the Indieweb (http://Micro.blog in particular), but I think I'm going to look into some other options too.
(twitter.com/_/status/939225470964465667)
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Zegnat
Also, this is the beautiful view that greeted a web comic artist on his Patreon dashboard today. A screen full off cancelled pledges: https://twitter.com/ryanqnorth/status/938878800854704128
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@ryanqnorth
@Patreon Hey @Patreon: this is just today, and just the *first page*. I don't blame anyone who has to leave: you joined to support me, and you did until they made it untenable. Thank you for supporting me for as long as you could<3 <3 <3 🌠💖🌠 https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DQeQgkaWAAEkZ6t.jpg
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dgold
notes that the 'block payment' thing doesn't apply to me; I use different accounts for all my creators, because the idea of being like some Roman paterfamilias doling out coin to supplicants makes me ill
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dgold
but for anyone who does take that approach, the block-payment thing is a pure moneygrab
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Zegnat
I still do not know why pro-rate is unacceptable. If all they are worried about it people downloading all exclusive content on the last day of the month for less pay: charge a full month when someone signs up, subtract whatever they paid “too much” on the second payment. Keep everything else the same as now.
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@amandapalmer
the frustrating thing is that if we artists all jump ship and crate our own islands and platforms, the artists and supporters are equally screwed with the payment processing problem. this is all really annoying. https://twitter.com/herbie555/status/939195393954295808
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tantek
not quite equally, has has been pointed out here re: Stripe being better than the new Patreon
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Zegnat
By 5 cents, yes.
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echarlie
I'm still not clear on why people are annoyed with the change in patreon's fee scheme.
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dgold
because it means I get charge $1.70 for a $1 pledge, and my creators now get just 55% of what I pay?
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dgold
I don't know how to explain it better than that
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dgold
oh, and if you have 40 $1 pledges, patreon now collect $15 in 'service charges'
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tantek
dgold that's an excellent summary - definitely worth adding to /Patreon#Criticism as a specific example
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@ChrisAldrich
@jimpick Can one interact with #Rotonde in a decentralized or #IndieWeb way? Has anyone tried or is it locked off within @BeakerBrowser?
(twitter.com/_/status/939234930147676160)
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Loqi
[superfeedr] "@jimpick Can one interact with #Rotonde in a decentralized or #IndieWeb way? Has anyone tried or is it locked off within @BeakerBrowser?" by Chris Aldrich on 2017-12-08 http://stream.boffosocko.com/2017/jimpick-can-one-interact-with-rotonde-in-a-decentralized-or
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Zegnat
“someone pledging $10 to one creator would see their payment increase to $10.64. But someone paying $1 to 10 creators each would see their payment increase to $13.79.” - https://www.metafilter.com/171040/Patreon-to-shift-payment-processing-fees-from-creators-to-patrons
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Zegnat
That MetaFilter topic has loads of good links and discussion
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Zegnat
And again, not accounting for VAT, of course.
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dgold
tantek: how's that?
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dgold
(as a summary)
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Loqi
Just generated this week's newsletter! You still have a few minutes to make changes, and I'll re-generate it 10 minutes before it gets sent out at 3pm Pacific time. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2017-12-08.html
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@jimpick
@ChrisAldrich @BeakerBrowser That's definitely on my todo list for my pipette project ... it's just the hugo static website generator, so I can start hooking up all the Indieweb stuff into it. It's trivial to do rel="me", and i've got some ideas around identity. Webmentions and micropub would be awesome.
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gRegorLove
dgold++ for /Patreon updates
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Loqi
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echarlie
dgold: thanks; I don't use patreon and thought that it would benefit creators for larger donations; didn't realize small (>$10) were so significant
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Loqi
Generated the final version of the newsletter! This will be sent out at 3pm Pacific time. https://indieweb.org/this-week/2017-12-08.html
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@manton2
The day before the event starts, we decided it was probably time to create a Facebook event for IndieWebCamp Austin. Priorities: blogs and wikis first. But feel free to RSVP on Facebook if you can make it! https://www.facebook.com/events/134934643858347/
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tantek
manton++
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Loqi
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tantek
just some minor shade ;)
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[kevinmarks]
I think patreon didn't understand the gratipay like model that has been wrecked by these changes, because they were adding up by value, and so over counting the big donations
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[kevinmarks]
Also, there may be a regulatory or payment processing ToS reason, like with gratipay. (The legal difference between being a money transfer service and a payment processor)
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[manton]
tantek Trying to spin the fact that I should have thought about Facebook earlier into something more lighthearted. 🙂
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tantek
manton I thought it was well said :)
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tantek
and now to send some multirsvps
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@t
going to #IndieWebCamp Austin 2017-12-09…10, the first ever in #Austin #Texas! Want more of your own website, less toxic social media? Join us this weekend and we’ll set y’all up! RSVP: https://2017.indieweb.org/austin #indieweb #openweb #ownyourdata #yallhands (ttk.me t4ro3)
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Loqi
[superfeedr] "going to #IndieWebCamp Austin 2017-12-09…10, the first ever in #Austin #Texas! Want more of your own website, less toxic social media? Join us this weekend and we’ll set y’all up! RSVP: https://2017.indieweb.org/austin #indieweb #openweb #ownyourdata #yallhands" on 2017-12-08 http://tantek.com/2017/342/t3/indiewebcamp-austin-own-website
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tantek
so did I rsvp? let's see
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tantek
done and eon
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tantek
wow the invite friends UI is FB sometimes takes a very long time to bring up a list of people to invite
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tantek
like over a minute - that's pretty unacceptable
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tantek
wonders if Bridgy POSSE's /invitation posts