I’ll note their app actually sucks at least for reading serial fiction from a few people I subscribe to.
What does require an app though is sending notifications. As a result I have their app just to receive notifications of new chapter releases, then go read the post on the website.
If Apple stopped locking this functionality into applications then something like Patreon could just be a website that you pin on your homescreen.
Now another alternative is email notifications but I will tell you email sucks and most people won’t bother with it. If I start allowing notifications from my mail client I’ll get a ton of notifications that I don’t give a crap about. There is a real spam problem there which application based notifications don’t have.
What does require an app though is sending notifications. As a result I have their app just to receive notifications of new chapter releases, then go read the post on the website.
If Apple stopped locking this functionality into applications then something like Patreon could just be a website that you pin on your homescreen.
Now another alternative is email notifications but I will tell you email sucks and most people won’t bother with it. If I start allowing notifications from my mail client I’ll get a ton of notifications that I don’t give a crap about. There is a real spam problem there which application based notifications don’t have.