>>29188Not too sure, because even back when the importer was working, I never uploaded anything there, too risky. I prefer to drop off my stash links at u18chan's /rs/ board, and 8chan.moe usually. I'm not some IT guy but the way I understand it is: KP as a site uses some kind of program, API or something, to scrape posts off pages. When paytreon does their little "updates" it breaks this API, and then needs to be fixed every time. Recently they've taken to installing some kind of anti-bot scraping program that can ban a user's account if it detects "suspicious activity." You could always create another account, but your payment info is saved on-file in their servers, so if you tried to link the same paypal account or bank card, it detects that and bans you too. The same goes for creator's pages, if a creator decides to ban you, they also ban the card you tried to pay with, and making a new account trying to pay with the same card will ban you from their page again. If you need more info, try searching around on their imageboard;
https://chan.kemono.party/kemono/catalog.htmlAdd to that, Paytreon also doesn't allow you to talk directly to creators unless you're pledged to their page, if a creator bans you, patreon gives you a stock line that goes, "we encourage you to reach out to the creator off-site and talk about this"...yeah fucking right. Paytreon's administration is packed with SJW-tard twitter drones who will ban you if someone reports you doing something they deem offensive off-site. But I suppose that's to be expected when the founder, Jack Conte, was a failed musician who couldn't make it on youtube. I mean hell, if you think about it, paytreon (as well as other paysites) really serve no purpose other than to act as a middleman between creators and buyers, it's without a doubt the laziest kind of "service" there is, and is basically a money-making machine, all they had to do is provide a space and sit back and milk the cashcow. How they manage to keep fucking up this way is a wonder to behold. Whether its the accidental decline of all credit cards, or the bug back in ~2015 that resized all uploaded images into pictures for ants, paytreon staff have been proven incompetent time and time again. All previous anti-bot programs have been evaded so far, so I don't doubt the KP admin will be able to circumvent it again. It's only a matter of time.
Another more disturbing fact about the site is that paytreon doesn't allow direct PMs to other members. If a creator is acting unethically, you can't tell other patrons directly about it on the site, unless you post on the creator's page, but then they'd just ban you anyway for exposing them. Paytreon is a lot more insidious than you might imagine. Despite proclaiming in their terms of service that they're against "drawn images of minors in sexual situations" (paraphrased) as well as other things deemed 'obscene', there's several top artists who still do just that and paytreon doesn't do anything about them. Know why? Because paytreon makes money on creator revenue, they take a portion of the earnings of every creator at the end of the month, and they quickly learned that disciplining top artists means less money from them at the end of the month, or even worse, moving to another site and closing their paytreon acount which means no money for them at all. Now normally I don't care what people draw, images are harmless, and don't let anyone tell you otherwise. The REAL problem is that these top artists now use their position to lie, cheat, steal, and all sorts of other shit to other people, and they know they can get away with it. If you tried to report them over it, chances are, paytreon staff will ban you for reporting it.
It's a terrible situation.