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Hi Everyone,

I’m just about to offer wallpapers as part of a reward tier. Firstly, how do people manage this? Do you direct people to a download page, perhaps with different dimensions and formats? Or do you send them out individually (if so, how?)?

Any advice welcome!

Thanks,

Gareth.

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I use Dropbox links to upload heavy files. Last year rewards I sent my higher tier patrons a printed calendar and the printable file in advance. So I posted the cover with a link to my shared file link.
The file was in pdf format.
At least I trust my patrons they will not use it for business or anything shaddy so I could do that special thing for them.

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Thanks, Noenoh - great idea!

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Yeah, I just upload it via Google Drive and post a link to my patrons. No direct messages. I even got one link on my “Thank you” page, so they can download it immediately

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Thanks, Tarusov. So no one is uploading directly to Patreon posts or password protecting part of their site? I know you can do that using the Patreon plugin for Wordpress.

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I upload 2 wallpapers a month directly into the patreon feed. They will remain there for a few months before I take them down. I know a lot of people prefer using direct messaging but I leave them up so new patrons can have access to a handful of wallpapers right off the bat. I just have to remember to manually remove the two oldest each month. Of course, I have a far smaller patreon page so I’m at lower risk of people abusing this.

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Thanks, Nekomata. I guess that’s the thing - remembering to take them down! I think I may opt for the direct messaging with link to download option.

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I use two methods:

I originally send them out as links (to files in my Amazon S3 account) in the text portion of an image post. The image shows a thumbnail of the wallpaper, and the link lets patrons download the file.

For content I’m happy to leave up for any patron to discover (and that I think will be unlikely to be hotlinked elsewhere), I just keep the links in the post. The “panel wallpapers”—based on the winning panels from my pages that patrons chose—fall into that category.

I do have some things up for a limited time, however, like any 18+ content. In the current month, those pin-ups are available to my $5+ patrons, and I post them as links as usual. But after that, the links get removed and the files go to a “Digital Library” where only my $10+ patrons get access ($10+ gets access to every pin-up I’ve ever posted, $25+ get access to high-res versions of those pin-ups.)

I use the Patreon integration with itch.io for those download libraries. Itch.io is free, they are cool with 18+ content, and they allow granular Patreon access, so I can have separate libraries for my $10+ and $25+ patrons.

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Thanks again, Alex!

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I offer wallpapers for all my patrons, so I upload the file directly in Patreon each month. I have a very small following so this seems easy at the moment.

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We use itch too, works quite fine…