Hi there, I wanted to jump in this thread as there appears to be have some confusion. You do not, nor have you ever, had to pay to appear on search on Patreon. Currently, only SFW creators appear in search and we understand that our search function in general needs to be improved; it’s one of our top 5 requests from the community and something these changes in pricing for new creators will allow us to work on further.
@Ghool, I’d love to understand where this confusion as come from. Feel free to DM me so we don’t take this thread off topic. Please know that we have absolutely no plan to roll founding creators into the higher prices and we went into great detail in this blog about why we currently don’t have any plans to allow patrons to browse the top 10 or 20 highest earning creators.
@Rob_Swift welcome to the forum! The new pricing allows us to invest in core features and services to make Patreon better for all creators. Our roadmap is to build a world class payments infrastructure including annual plans and internationalization, improve features such as messaging and notifications, and create a more intuitive patron experience.
@gareth.southwell I hope this helps, but let me know if you have any questions that I missed.