Seriously - Can We Please Have A Gallery?... Please?... Seriously?

[agentredgirl]

I am going to keep this very simple and short. As a content creator, we need an UNMISTAKABLE, UNAVOIDABLE, SIMPLE, EASY TO SEE, EASY TO USE, GALLERY to share our completed content.

Our users should be able to view all of our content in 1 easy to FIND and easy to USE place. Please. This is such a simple and necessary thing to have for a content creator. Imagine joining to support a creator and having to scroll through pages upon pages of stuff just to find the content? (PINNED messages are a CUTE bandaid but NOT a solution).

Here is an example of where and how you can put it. Please, lets get this implemented ASAP.

[agentredgirl]

Here are some links to other creators asking for this or something similar:

Gallery view for visual artists (as opposed to infinite scroll)

Literally, for years, myself and MANY other creators have asked for a Gallery feature. I can show you hundreds of screenshots of exit surveys saying “too hard to find content”. EDIT: I can also show you many posts on this same forum from long ago where creators have asked for this feature. This cant be that hard. Its just a folder where we can stick content. That’s it. Please, just give us a big fat, impossible to miss, GALLERY where we can post completed content for our subscribers. Please. …

Ability to add image link tabs to Cover Photo

Hello, can you guys allow us to have this kind of feature to our Cover photo. Or at least allow this portion to be modified by html editor. I am Struggling on how to make the patrons aware of my previous releases. I think this can help the patreon creators a lot. please check this image: [image]

Please [INFINITE SCROLLING] Do a Display contents as GRID / Thumbnails / List

I’m very frustrated as Creator because my patrons can’t have a good experience about seeing my contents… the patreon needs urgently an Update how the contents are displayed, like, Grid as thumbnails or List I’m losing many patrons because they can’t even watch the first tutorials posted… I mean, what on earth they will scroll down forever to see my old posts? since it’s only video tutorials? look here below one of my Exit survey reply… “its insane… i dont understand his platform … the cate…

I need a content calendar and bulk post management

I use scheduling heavily to keep a steady flow of stuff coming out even when I don’t feel like doing anything. Unfortunately, this is painfully slow even before considering the general slowness of the post editor. I have to open multiple new post pages, scroll around each to set common values (like tags), work through the intrusive pop-ins yelling at me about needing an image as I try to change it to a scheduled post, etc. What would help this is a way to select multiple days from a calendar an…

What's your biggest Patreon pain point?

Content creators need a GALLERY link so our supporters can quickly and easily access our works. This is a gigantic miss by Patreon. Please, get this implemented ASAP.

Menu or better category links

Hi, please don’t merge this to get lost inside another thread - this in important for the future of Patreon. You have been suggesting we use Patreon as a membership site and I can see that is the way forward. But, I’m reluctant to make the effort needed if there is no way to direct members or patrons to particular content, other than doing contortions with the categories tabs. 5 categories in the side margin are not enough and the blurred brown images of pooh are not exactly professional or ap…

[angelafineart]

Ditto! Long overdue.

[reyna]

Hi @agentredgirl, thank you collecting all of this feedback into one place. Like I mentioned on Discord, I’ve brought this feedback to the team. I’m unable to guarantee it will result in a change, but it’s important for us to hear feedback like this and I appreciate you sharing it.

[artbyemilyhare]

Yeah I have been wanting this for a long time, along with the choice to search through old posts as thumbnails, not endless scrolling.

[agentredgirl]

Got another Patreon today complaining about how difficult it is to find content =)

[JhonSSilva]

It’s time to talk with the Jack Conte, CEO’s Patreon by commenting on his video because seriously guys…

How many request should we do if we are not being listened?
My god guys, I work really hard to bring people to patreon… to have such frustration at display content.

It’s so obvious that the Scrolling infinite experience is annoying, try by yourself to look older posts… (do not tell me about the tag, it’s bad)

we have different type of creators and medias, videos, images and text. You guys already have this UI system in the POSTS / Dashboard Section creator tab.

I will try to e-mail some one higher on the staff directly, because this forum seems to be useless

[magicalboybasil]

Ditto. We produce comic pages every month with the process work and creator commentary, and there’s no reasonable way to organize these pages. I’m looking for a gallery that can be displayed right away for new and returning patrons and allows for easy navigation between posts within that gallery. In my case, I would organize my comic pages into a gallery which the patrons can then read one page at a time with all the additional material and also post comments per page.

This is a basic need for both patrons and creators.

[reyna]

Hi all - just wanted to link this response from our product team lead:

Gallery view for visual artists (as opposed to infinite scroll)

Hello all! My name is Ursula and I lead the product teams focused on the fan and patron experience at Patreon. We deeply appreciate you taking the time to share your experience; the collective feedback from all our creators and patrons helps us identify how to best improve our product. We definitely heard from patrons about the difficulty in finding benefits and earlier this year we introduced a membership page that summarizes benefits, improved the filter functionality on the post page, and add…

Thank you again for providing your thoughts and feedback. We’ll absolutely let you know when we have an update.

[Michael_Loucks]

When a feature which is useful and common to other sites has been requested for years, and the response is platitudes, that indicates a lack of concern for creators and Patrons. I’m sure there are technical challenges, but Patreon has had years to solve them. This feature request ought to be a top priority.

[Tini]

A.M.E.N

I really don’t understand why such a basic feature has been ‘put asside’ or ‘down on the To DO list’ for SUCH a long time. Are there any reasons that in ANY way explain why you would choose not to implement a galerie into patreon? I mean… the pictures are uploaded anyway, so ‘space’ can’t be the issue.

[agentredgirl]

Reyna If your product team needs ANY idea on how and where and WHAT the gallery should look like, please reach out to me. I will happily provide examples. However, the MOST IMPORTANT THING is that the Gallery is SUPER EASY TO FIND! Look at the picture I posted in the first message in this thread.

We just need a BIG FAT BUTTON that says Gallery. That is impossible to miss. You can allow us to customize the look/picture for the button but thats what we want. a Big… fat… button!

[mongie]

I’m honestly really tired of the state of Patreon. I’ve been here for years only because there isn’t an alternative. They’ve really been sitting on their laurels and not making any significant changes or improvements to the platform. My patrons have been complaining for years that they struggle to get around and see the posts they’ve paid access to because it’s this long list of a post after post. I’ve gone through and tagged everything as best as I can, but it’s still a tedious mess and asking far too much of my paying fans to ask to negotiate through for this long. I’ve got messages on this forum from 2018 asking for galleries and here we are, still no changes or improvements. But their social media spam posts about getting more patrons. But once they’re here, the concern for their well-being in terms of interacting with the actual platform go by the wayside.

I’m an artist – I draw a webcomic, and having every one of my submissions stacked single-file in a long list doesn’t work well for my patrons. They get overwhelmed by the lack of intuitive design on our profile page and may bail the following month.

I don’t actually understand the point of this forum when suggestions outside of adding a checkbox or a label are rarely considered. The API is broken. The layout is stale and never really worked since the beginning. But Patreon has no competition, so why change the current status quo?

Patreon’s design needs to grow and evolve. Right now it’s a mushroom lounging in the shade.

[agentredgirl]

@reyna

I love this Platform in the sense that its given me a better life but I have to echo a lot of the frustration that @mongie is feeling. This Gallery feature is becoming a NECESSISTY at this point. The more and more content that is created, the harder and harder it is to find. I have been on Patreon for a few years now and for some reason this feature has not been added and I just cant understand why.

Please, help us make this happen. This is a basic level need for our Patreons. I feel like this could be added in a single day, I just cant understand why it hasnt been.

@ursula

Edit: Here are some more RECENT (IE last 30 days) examples of Patreons complaining about how hard it is to find content.

[sambeawesome]

@mongie

their social media spam posts about getting more patrons. But once they’re here, the concern for their well-being in terms of interacting with the actual platform go by the wayside.

It’s literally this. Sooo much work has gone into getting patrons, but if none of them want to stay, there’s no point.

They’ve built up the infrastructure to get patrons, their focus now should be way more on fixing bugs/issues and adjusting/adding features to keep them.

I know I’ve lost at least one patron who couldn’t find the posts they wanted, and I’m a small creator. I can’t imagine how many larger creators have lost. Let alone how many told them that was the reason they left.

I spent hours and hours over several days building a Google Doc with my posts organized and laid out in a more searchable/readable way. Patreon’s folders and tags just aren’t good enough. (Not to mention the insane lag that still persists which was a large contributor to why it took me so long to make that document!)

I honestly feel like most of us would be much less stressed and upset about things like this if Patreon was more communicative with what was going on behind the scenes. It feels like we always have to pry it out of the staff. Give us info on what you’re currently doing. What about updates for each quarter? “Here are our plans for Q1” That would be amazing! It’s not like it’d have to be super detailed, I get it there are things to keep private or a “surprise” (though previous “surprises” have been hit or miss). But /something/ would be a fantastic start.

[simrell]

same same same to everything above.

i shouldn’t need to make my own OFF SITE navigation for how to access my paid content.

infinite scroll does NOT work! it just doesn’t! i have thousands upon thousands of posts, there’s absolutely no way for my patrons to access my old content

[Christa_P]

Just echoing the sentiment that this would be a really helpful addition.

[TheFourthPlace]

This is absolutely the number one thing that Patreon is missing.

I cannot understand why Patreon, where members pay creators to get access to content, doesn’t understand the difference between Content and Posts.

Please give us a real Content Management feature, that lets us post videos, music, images, files/downloads, and text content in a way that is surfaces and organized better than tagged posts. (Posts should remain, but they aren’t Content.)

[agentredgirl]

Here is another post requesting this along with an example of how it could look

Gallery Tab Mockup

[Screen Shot 2021-01-03 at 10.42.47 AM] excuse the fact that i just wrote the words instead of finding the matching font but… c’mon patreon. we’ve been asking for this feature for actual YEARS. patrons are leaving because they can’t find their rewards or because the infinite scroll is broken or we’ve been making content for too long and there’s just too much to go thru. why can’t we have ONE place where our patrons can actually see everything we offer and go thru what interests them?

[Sherene]

Hi everyone. Sherene from the Patreon product marketing team here. I wanted to let you know that I posted an update on this topic on another thread and it very much holds true here:

Gallery view for visual artists (as opposed to infinite scroll)

We hear you. Organizing years of a back catalogue should be easier. Content organization on Patreon should - and can - work better. I don’t have a simple workaround for you today, but I can share that our product team is now actively looking into how to improve content organization on Patreon. We want to approach this with a lot of intention and care since the creators who would be most impacted by a change would be creators like you who have been on the platform a long time and have invested a…

I have read through every single post in this thread with the team working on this feature, so I will be closing this thread now (as mentioned here), but if you have more to add or any new ideas for us, please feel free to create a new post.

Thank you again for taking the time to share your thoughts here. It’s hugely valuable to us as we start to build out more ways for you to organize and manage your content on Patreon.