Like Discord group chats, Patreon has added a community chat feature to it’s mobile clients this week, allowing subscribers to talk to each other besides giving feedback to the creator.
These community chats have usual moderation features, the ability to restrict conversations for various subscriber tiers, sharing emojis, media and others. Patreon is rolling out this group chat feature to select creators now, with a broader rollout coming soon.
Patreon Community Chats
Patreon, the creator funding platform, has announced a new community chat feature to allow subscribers to chat in a closed group chat under Patreon’s channel. Making it more like a messenger, the new feature allows subscribers to customise their name, photo, social media links and bio while sharing emojis and pictures aside from plain text.
This community chat advances the current comment section, where subscribers can only respond to the creator’s content. Well, the community chats now would also allow subscribers to talk to each other. Creators can have up to four conversations at once, and they can restrict who can participate – like limiting specific chats to various subscriber tiers.
This community chats feature is currently available only to the Patreon mobile app, but the company confirmed that a desktop version is in the works, too. Also, Patreon acknowledged the initial criticism for this new feature being similar to Discord, calling it’s community chats “essentially a simpler, in-app Discord server”.
Saying that community chats aren’t meant to replace Discord, Patreon leaves Creators choosing their preferred chat method. In a future update, Patreon claims to allow creators to enlist fans to assist with moderation.
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