I can’t help but notice that the things we’ve been asking for are notably absent from this ‘update’.
Where is the gallery view?
Where is the improved API usage?
Where is the improved site navigation?
Where is the ‘next chapter’ function?
With all due respect, unless you can demonstrate some example of progress towards the things we, the creators, your actual customers, are requesting, maybe stop with the platitudes. They’re condescending and insulting.
I sure hope your new CPO looks at this thread and gets scared, because when a user base is this angry, it often leads to a mass die-off of usership. Patreon has competition, and that competition is starting to look very appealing.
We are your clients, not our patrons. If we leave, so do our patrons.
Stop worrying about them, and start worrying about what happens if we, the creators, declare no confidence in Patreon and find somewhere else to take our fans.