We think you're right about this. It's one of the things that has prevented us from changing or trying to migrate to different systems in the past. We have approximately 200 patrons and we are certain that if we migrate everything full stop, we will lose a lot of people. It's more likely that we could create some different kind of use case for our new project and run them in tandem. What is special about Patreon is the exclusivity of being a part of the inner circle. That isn't really the point of HIVE in many ways.

You're also absolutely right that the learning curve on HIVE is very steep. I would say that today it is the most user friendly it has ever been, but it's still far more complicated than any Web2.0 platform. People are extremely lazy and their attention spans are short these days. We will have to make very strong arguments and incentives for people to take actions. The brain is churning...