Patreon can go F....ar away.

I honestly don't understand why Patreon needs so many millions in VC funding

Don't get me started... My feeling is Patreon may have done well because they could afford to pay a marketing team to get the word out. I'm sure there were (and are) better platforms out there that just haven't got the exposure. Someone mentioned https://liberapay.com/ on https://www.patreon.com/foosel

Unless I'm missing something it seems relatively easy to knock up the actual tech side of things - it's just building the business... But seeing how self-destructive Patreon are being now it's hard to imagine they got where they are through well thought out business decisions :)

It looks like this is an ongoing developing story, so I'll wait until the dust settles before I pull the plug on Patreon.

Thanks! There are at least two Patreons who haven't waited though, and I'm sure there will be more - hopefully Patreon will do something to make this up to everyone, but I'm not optimistic.