Right here’s what occurred in June’s episode of Grasp Time…

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Grasp Time, our month-to-month reside stream, is hosted by Patreon CEO Jack Conte and our personal Taryn Arnold. On Grasp Time, you’ll hear about cool stuff coming down the pipeline, in addition to new product releases. Plus, it’s an opportunity for the complete Patreon ecosystem (creators, patrons, Patreon employees, and so on) to get to know one another higher.

Should you didn’t get an opportunity to look at June’s episode of Grasp Time, don’t stress — we seize a few of its key moments on this weblog article.

Right here’s what occurred throughout Grasp Time in June…

Gray backdrop, you served us properly on earlier episodes of Grasp Time. However now, Jack and Taryn are sitting in entrance of a model new, colourful backdrop, with fixtures and a dangling plant. Additionally, we upgraded our lighting to raised illuminate our hosts, and we added an itty-bitty manufacturing room for our producer (and IT engineer) Steven Pringle, so the studio is only a tad much less cramped.

In Taryn’s phrases, Pringle used to take a seat “proper right here — in our face, which is superb, I like Pringle, however you can hear the hum and you can see his face. So now he’s proper over there in a brand new, little child room, and it’s enjoyable.”

You possibly can watch Jack and Taryn get stoked in regards to the Grasp Time new studio across the :25 minute mark of Grasp Time.

We just lately made it out to the East Coast for meet-ups in Brooklyn, Baltimore, and Washington DC. Should you went to a kind of meet-ups, thanks for popping out. We loved attending to know everybody (and consuming the entire scrumptious meals within the metropolis you reside in).

Should you weren’t in a position to come, or don’t reside near these meet-up areas, there shall be extra to come back. Subscribe to our occasions calendar to remain within the loop about future meet-ups in a metropolis close to you.

You possibly can watch Taryn discuss Patreon meet-ups across the 5:16 minute mark of Grasp Time.

In celebration of Satisfaction month, Taryn and Jack need to see your works! Should you’re an LBGTQ creator, share your artwork with the world utilizing the #LGBTQcreators hashtag on Twitter, Instagram and Fb. Or, should you’re an ally, use that hashtag to provide a shout out to your favourite LBGTQ creators. We are able to’t wait to see what you share.

To look at this part of Grasp Time, head over to the 6:00 minute mark.

We’re all the time bettering Patreon by fixing bugs, constructing new options, and updating present ones. It’s essential to us that about what we do behind the scenes to make Patreon higher. That manner, not solely will you concentrate on any adjustments we make to Patreon, you’ll additionally be capable to find out about new options that we’re enthusiastic about.

So, that will help you preserve monitor of adjustments we make to Patreon, we created the What’s New tab, which yow will discover within the backside left nook of your creator web page.

Within the phrases of Jack, while you click on the What’s New tab, “you’ll get this rolling, fantastic record of all the brand new issues which can be superior, and fantastic about Patreon.”

Try the What’s New tab immediately and get a glimpse at what we’ve been engaged on.

You possibly can watch Jack speak in regards to the What’s new tab on the 7:00 minute mark of Grasp Time. (Additionally, make sure you stick round to the top for a particular track by Taryn and Jack)

A bunch of creators gave us suggestions that there have been some issues with our cellular audio participant. We all know how essential it’s on your patrons to have the ability to simply hearken to your content material, so we’re sorry for any points you’ve confronted.

The excellent news is, due to all of your suggestions, we have been in a position to repair it up the cellular audio participant to enhance your patrons’ listening expertise. Right here’s an inventory of the enhancements we made to the participant on Android and iOS:

• We mounted up the slider, so now patrons can simply fast-forward or rewind.
• When a patron’s cellphone goes to sleep, the participant now saves your patrons’ progress, to allow them to choose up the place they left off.
• We mounted some bugs for the play/pause icons and timestamps.
• When relevant, patrons can now obtain audio content material from the Patreon app and hearken to it on any audio participant.
• Paintings now shows when audio is enjoying.

Try the enhancements we’ve made to our cellular audio participant immediately. Or, should you haven’t downloaded the Patreon app, you possibly can obtain that right here.

You possibly can watch Jack speak in regards to the updates to the cellular audio function on the 9:00 mark of Grasp Time.

We love how creative our creators are when arising with new and thrilling methods so as to add worth to their creator pages. Nevertheless, to maintain Patreon secure for everybody, there are some guidelines as to what sorts of advantages creators are allowed to run on Patreon.

One query we get from creators rather a lot is, why aren’t raffles allowed on Patreon? Principally, video games of probability (like raffles, sweepstakes, and giveaways) aren’t allowed on Patreon to guard creators who reside in international locations or states the place raffles aren’t authorized.

Jacqueline Hart, Patreon’s Head of Belief and Security, stopped by Grasp Time to speak with Jack and Taryn about raffles. Listed below are a pair options she urged to working raffles which can be allowed beneath Patreon’s Phrases of Use.

• Don’t depart it as much as probability: To run a contest along with your patrons, the winner needs to be chosen by another issue moreover probability.
• Depart the competition open to everybody: You possibly can run a raffle on Patreon so long as it’s open to everybody, not simply your patrons.

For a extra full write up on this subject (and extra profit concepts to supply your patrons), try our latest Belief and Security article, “Patreon’s stance on raffles, lotteries and giveaways.”

If you wish to hear Jack’s complete dialog with Jacqueline, you possibly can hearken to that on the 11:00 minute mark of Grasp Time.

If you wish to hear Jack and Taryn reply questions from the Grasp Time group, make sure you hearken to the complete episode (which yow will discover on the prime of this weblog publish).

The Grasp Time Q&A begins across the 18:00 minute mark of this episode.

And, should you loved Grasp Time, try our Crowdcast website, the place yow will discover out about future episodes (and consider previous ones that you will have missed). Additionally, should you want studying Grasp Time as an alternative of watching it, you try the remainder of our Grasp Time weblog articles right here.