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Well yes, if that's the problem they have right now, it could indeed be way worse. Growing "too fast" can be an issue but it's not excatly "failing".Increase on pledges and patrons doesn't make it sustainable. The CEO said himself that the problem is how fast the whole thing is increasing which results in failing to provide the service correctly, which is why patrons and content creators have problems with
That's not really an alternative though. Patreon provides a comprehensive platform where people can pledge within seconds, where creators can make an offer and where people can actually find stuff, where projects can grow etc. and right now there's no real alternative for small, growing projects which aren't popular, yet.Also, there are plenty of alternatives like setting paypal directlydirectly to your page, while losing around 3% of the income compared to the 10% patreon charges due to transactions. The mentality of "there's nothing better" is old and tired at this point.
Else you have to understand that the whole "incest" thing happens because of for example Paypal and Stripe. Paypal and other payment processors don't want their service to be used to support incest, beastiality, "loli-content" etc. and that's why patreon cracked down on it. So there's a high chance that Paypal could deny payments to people like DC in case he wanted to use their service on his homepage. It's really important to see that the problems of the adult game community are different to those of some alt-rigth weirdos. In "our" case it's not patreon but pay/stripe/etc. who cause those problems.