Suggestions for Patreon (the website/app/service, not the Dead Meat Patreon)
Hi folks! Since our Patreon is so successful (THANK YOU ALL OF YOU) we've developed a pretty good relationship with the people who run it. We've got a meeting with them in a couple of weeks and I'd love to bring any good suggestions or feedback you may have to them directly.
I already have a few things I plan on bringing up with them but they're mostly internal things for creators (like being able to pop out the chat during a livestream). Would love to hear what you want to see from a user/patron perspective. Anything to make this better for you.
Thanks so much you're all the best!
Comments (42)
Being able to mark episodes as listened to or done and then filtering to this in search :)
Xbox app
What do the Dead Meat Team compare the first 2 Terminator movies with? I compare them with the first two Christopher Reeves Superman movies because of how good they are I like the second movies more.
Streaming through Patreon has a very limited bandwidth, crashes a lot on the viewer end
This has been mentioned already, but I really really want to be able to search within a creator’s page. I used to be able to read an email notification from a creator, not be able to check it out right away, and be confident that I would be able to quickly find it the next week or whenever I have time. Since the new launch page is messy and mostly full of irrelevant things, I want to open the app less often. Which means that posts can get buried. If Patreon needs this messy and maddening launch page, they should at least let us search our individual creators.
I second this! It is deeply tedious and ineffective to find content I know exists only on Patreon and want to go back to - scrolling through everything take FOREVER!
Being able to search through videos would be great. I can only see them image order and if I want to see the old scream or saw ones I have to scroll super far
Sometimes it takes a long time to load up the audio commentaries. And it would be cool if every once in a while we could vote on podcast ideas. But other than that keep up the good work.
I haaaate the for you-like landing page. I don't subscribe to random Patreons just based on seeing that they exist. That's just not how the model works for fans. When i open the app i should just see the Patreons I'm subscribed to. I really like the "recommended by dead meat" section, that makes perfect sense, but I've gotten tons of stuff like crafting and styling-type Patreons suggested instead of what I'm actually opening the app to see. I understand wanting patrons to see other content to subscribe to, obviously that makes sense, but the ratio of suggested to desired content is way off.
I almost rage quit Patreon a couple months ago because of this. It’s gotten a little better, but I want an easy option to see all the stuff I pay to subscribe to in chronological order. Why is that so hard?
A media tab 🙏 so I don't have to scroll through a bunch of posts for stuff, or a more general file tab for minecraft world downloads and stuff. COOL.
An app for xbox or Playstation
This may or may not be a thing I haven't had patreon for long, but badges for subscribers could be cool. It could show who's been around longer or what teir they are. I don't have to many complaints other than the video players isn't very great so I just end up using the yt link. Idk, it's a pretty good site all in all!
I really miss when I didn’t have like a ‘for you page’ as soon as I open the app.
Playlists would be awesome, as everyone says, as well as a tab for videos/media, such as how Bluesky has. Makes it veeerry convenient when looking for vids specifically.
Podcast movie request!! (Like the kill count request but for the podcast)
Agree with the earlier comment on creating Playlists! I have favorite videos/posts from different creators I'd like to compile instead of just keeping everything in a generic "Saved" folder
Playlist making abilities 🙏🏾
Sometimes the accessibility with screen readers is not very good. I don’t know if that’s a phone thing, or a Patreon thing, but sometimes it tends to act up and stop working at some point. As a visually impaired user, that is very important to me.
I feel like it's gotten harder to navigate in the last few years. When I first started using patreon, it would open up onto a feed of all the posts I had access to from the pages I supported, and it was one click to go to the feed for any specific one of those pages, it was maybe one or two clicks to see the details of all my current memberships, and I could change payment details or membership levels from that same screen. It feels bizarre that it's not always like that anymore.
I've heard some patreon creators say they wish subscription options would allow patrons to subscribe to multiple membership tiers/plans at a time. One example was if you have multiple youtube channels and want to have seperate membership plans under the same patreon.
Make the homepage back to seeing the people you’re subscribed to. It’s very annoying seeing some random page every time I open the app
Hard agree that we need a TV app, but if that for some reason isn't feasible now, can we at least chrome cast from mobile to TV? I was surprised that that wasn't already an option. I'd also like to second the suggestion of making it easier to search for specific content, that would be super helpful. Lastly, thanks to the entire dead meat team for making such amazing content for us to enjoy. You all rock.
Was watching DankPods earlier and he mentioned he left Patreon partly because you had to have different PayPal accounts for different pages.
I was JUST going to post this!!! Putting the link here for those interested. https://youtu.be/WdJJdRHT0t8?si=Iebe7orlu3ZgOG82
I echo the need for an app on something like Roku! As of right now the only way I can watch patron stuff is the app on my phone or laptop
The ability to look up and filter posts based on the year and month it was released. It makes going through a backlog way easier
A smart tv app or one for the Xbox/PS5 would be amazing
The ui is okay but the chat should get more features also a separate app for tv and ps5/xbox would be cool
Yes id love to be able to watch the kill count early through my Xbox with an app or something
A smart tv app would be nice, i typically watch YouTube on my tv
Yes a tv app!!
This is by far the worst app I use regularly. It drains my devices’ batteries like nobody’s business, it’s ridiculously cumbersome to find the content I’m actually here for, the video player is awful, AirPlaying is awful, the auto-subtitles are awful, the logo is ugly… Okay, I may just be at the “petty venting” stage now, but I super-trust you guys to deliver my message in a friendlier way. (And I’m so grateful that in the meantime, you post your exclusive content as private YT links because at least that works.)
Yeah I’ve switched to using it mostly on my computer simply for how cumbersome the app is
Improve the video player. Myself and many others get a black screen with audio only when trying to view the video in full screen around 85% of the time.
Thank you for the content, James! The Dead Meat team’s charisma and passion is what is so attractive about y’all. It always helps when you have the GOAT, James Graessle to tag along too!
I would love for video playback to be more seamless between mobile and desktop. Always feels like there are hiccups when syncing.
What do you mean syncing?
Ability to change the app icon to match one of your subscriptions would be nice.
Are you the real Scott Steiner?
Wish the screen to manage subscriptions was on the front page (or whatever you want to call it)
Hi James and chilsee
