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November Patron Vlog And A Text Rant About Patreon's Dashboard
🕑 Added 2019-12-05 02:49:08 +0000 UTCThe Patreon dashboard for creators is absolute ass. I'm honestly shocked that it's as bad as it is. It's worse than going back to a 2006 install of Joomla. There's no unified landing page with important information summed up, it's just a blank wall until you navigate to the sub-pages via the menus, but even those don't do what you think they should.
You'd expect "Posts" to take you to a master landing page for, well, posts. A quick overview of published posts and drafts in basic chronological order. You know, like literally every other web based publisher on the planet.
No.
"Posts" just expands the menu giving you the options New, Drafts, Scheduled, Published, Posts Dashboard, and Engagement.
Now, why the living hell "Posts Dashboard" is its own thing five entries down from the top and not, like, the basic functionality of "Posts" is beyond me. Not that it does what you think it would do. It pulls up a list of only your published posts with some quick stats. No drafts, no scheduled posts. That's right: "Posts Dashboard" is actually analytics, not an actual dashboard for managing posts.
And all that's before the fact that it's unresponsive and prone to devouring posts.
Just attaching the video at the top of this post took twenty attempts.
Anyway, the old text post actually had a really good mini ramble about the way that I've been letting my tech get away from me that I'm going to briefly try to recapture and hope it doesn't get drowned out by how damn salty I am at Patreon.
All of these frame rate experiments, and jumping through the hoops to make 48p content, I'm actually starting to really like the aesthetics of 48, especially for this non-performative stuff. There's an immediacy to it that works really well for vlogs and documentary. But, like, why would you? It's murdering the data rate.
These days I'm recording BRAW 8:1 at 2.8k 48fps and, like, sweet mercy, why would you ever do that? The raw footage for this vlog is a hair over 100GB. You would have to be mad to do that for a vlog. It looks great, though. But still: why? What's wrong with me?
EDIT: I'm editing this because a screen capture that I embedded in the middle of the post attached as a file attachment instead. It turns out you just can't have inline images in a post that already includes a video. Literally worse than Joomla in 2006.
Comments
FoldableHuman
Not at the moment, at least not any deeper than a one-line nod. I'm already cutting tangents, and that's *super* tangential. I did, however, make some notes yesterday for a gimmicky video about watching YouTube on fast forward that would require the video to be viewed in fast forward.
Some people look at the leading edge of production and ask "why?" and others look at it and say "these go up to 11..." And as someone who is still using CS5, I salute people like you that are always tinkering.
To back up the above comment, I am fully happy to hear from you in this kind of way! I like these kind of updates and thanks, I just learnt a bunch of interesting technical detail about audio-video, a lot of the scaling and pulldown stuff sounded familiar to my day job dealing with time series IoT data. Just to say, I didn't find the COPPA video to be remotely a COPPA out; the observation you made about the exact relationsip between advertising and surveillance platforms, and content creators (namely that they don't collect data for you, but deign to give you indirect access to a subset of it) was really really illuminating for me! I've used it in conversation like 6 times since I watched that.
Just so you're aware, I have no problem with you posting a vlog like this when you're having trouble getting out a finished thing. From a patron point of view, it's 100 million times better than just radio silence for months at a time, which is what some creators default to when they can't get stuff out the door.
Robby Blum
When the Gemini Man vlog came out, I watched the whole thing through and then afterwards realized that YouTube's auto-quality-selector had put me in 30 fps instead of the HFR options. Likewise with this one, though this time I remembered to manually turn the quality higher at the beginning, having learned my lesson here. I feel like this sort of screws up the whole "quietly experimenting with HFR" thing somewhat. Or at least softens it. I think I didn't notice that there was a 48 fps option at all on the COPPA video...
Evan J
Started watching thinking it be maybe10~ minutes but no this is long nice.
Tyler Knott
That vlog was like an @Foone Twitter thread in video form, in the best way (or perhaps a less-well-structured Technology Connections video). A detailed historical/cultural discussion of an obscure technology with lots of random tangents? That's my jam. Also, in this upcoming video on framerate do you have any plans to talk about people watching videos at 1.5x or 2x speed? I watch pretty much every Youtube video sped up unless it has music I care about (since the speed adjustment tends to butcher music) which makes pretty much every video I watch "HFR".
I only understood like 2/3 of what you talked about in the video, but it was still interesting listening to you talk about it lol
