The landing page stinks. First thing everyone sees is a page asking for money. Our intro video or blog should be first. Even better offer some different layouts to chose from.
there’s been feedback given about the landing page update for over a year, and it’s all been ignored. so, unfortunately, don’t hold out hope in them upgrading it.
it’s a terrible landing page, most of us agree it’s a terrible landing page. it has giant columns of unused white space, it hides our tiers and our info, it’s uncustomizable, and it’s ugly. yet, they won’t change it.
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I can only agree… I don’t know anyone who likes it, and I’ve heard lots of complaints. For some reason they won’t fix it. I made a Buy Me A Coffee account, and it’s been cool so far, especially since they now support tiers! I won’t be ditching Patreon anytime soon, but will be running BMAC in parallel and maybe eventually migrating people over. I’m also working on building subscriptions into my website jimlutzmusic.com (hosted by bandzoogle). It’s a little bit more work, but I think Patreon is starting to outgrow its ability to serve its creators and patrons. It’s really too bad, but as seems to often be the case, scale has become the enemy of quality.
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I agree. The landing page is TERRIBLE. Especially for businesses like mine which are tithe-based.
My workaround is this:
(1) Create a video post that says what I want to say.
- It links directly to my Patreon payment / checkout page
- It also mentions options for 1-time tithes through Venmo, Zelle, PayPal, and check
(2) Then I make a redirect link (tinyurl or your own website) that points to the above video post.
I never share my main Patreon landing page. EVER. It’s so bad, I just won’t subject my audience to that torture.
The solution above, however, is a good workaround until Patreon figures out how to create a customizable block-based editor for their landing page.
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Quick tip: if you want to send people to your posts instead of your main landing page, just take your main url and add “/posts” to the end, then use that instead. Your modified url would look like “https:// www. patreon. com/(your page info here)/posts”.
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Th_Mole -
This is an excellent tip and an easy one to implement. 
Just adding one more amen to this discussion. The landing page has been the biggest obstacle for new patrons. It’s confusing for many and unfortunately the time someone will spend on a confusing page is almost zero minutes.
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I don’t mind the fact that you see the prices first! Personally I can’t stand being strung along for pages through loads of waffle looking for a price. On Patreon it is clear what the costs are and what for, straight up, no nonsense.
Hmmm…reading these comments makes me wonder if the landing page has been an obstacle to my attracting new patrons that I’ve been somewhat unaware of. I haven’t received feedback from anyone. Saw a message that admin is working on changes. I’d be grateful if the improvement encourages more potential patrons to become Patrons indeed.
Hey there folks,
I posted an update in this thread here, just wanted you all to know that we’ll catalog this feedback alongside it.