desirelines
patreon
Dropbox or Mega?
🕑 Added 2021-06-07 03:59:35 +0000 UTCI was wondering the best way to upload files without the files getting on the scraper website. The best method I can come up with is to have either a dropbox folder link or a mega folder link in a single post, followed by me deleting the link at a specific time of the month, then I upload a new link in the old post. That way, if someone access the link on the scraper website then the individual will not have access to the files unless they reupload the file post each month before the link gets deleted (and apparently the scraper website does not automatically reupload old posts if they already have a version of that post on their website). I could also include the links into the welcome message that appear in https://www.patreon.com/desirelines/membership. I don't think the scraper website scrapes the patron's tier welcome message on the membership page lol (I can't actually upload files to the membership message but I can include links). I don't know any free alternatives to dropbox and mega that is easy to upload and delete.
Apparently the scraper website can scrape a discord so I'm not going to use discord for Patreon files (discord's game files are only the public versions of games). idk what a discord scraping looks like but I have no plans on uploading my Patreon files on there. Telegram does not seem like a reasonable alternative because the scraper site has a telegram and idk what other security issues there are on Telegram because Telegram requires the user to list their phone number in order to create an account. Emailing people the files or links does not seem like a reasonable thing to do for a variety of reasons (email can be sent into a spam folder, email can be accidentally deleted, email account can be hacked, new users would be at a disadvantage, could be an old email account with a lost password or the email account does not exist anymore, etc.). I can't upload files through the Patreon's Messages system (https://www.patreon.com/messages) and DMs were down for me for a few days earlier last week so I don't trust messages on Patreon to be fully functioning all the time.
I'm allowing all patrons to vote in this poll because it affects all patrons. If you've never used Dropbox or Mega, here are examples. Dropbox (my public games are listed): https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6w6enpctbwe6ckv/AADjTGwdy9A6Ihgx9AL5VN_ia?dl=0. Mega (my public games are listed): https://mega.nz/folder/bDZAyDrQ#Xf-2eoXCpPpd98ooVHttYw
