Founded in 2001, Anime-Planet is a site created by fans, for fans. Though millions of users a month use the site, we're staffed by a small team of volunteers including the founder, developers, and content moderators. Until now, we've relied on a very small amount of ads on the website to cover Anime-Planet's hefty ongoing costs, given the community's size and growth. But with most folks using ad block programs nowadays and ad revenue performing poorly across the web, we now need to look elsewhere to be able to continue to keep the lights on. Thus, today, we're excited to launch a Patreon page! If you choose to become a patron, you're helping us improve our infrastructure due to Anime-Planet's rising traffic needs, work on future features and projects, and offset our increasing server costs. Patreon's platform also enables us to finally take a look at widely requested features such as the ability to donate to browse ad-free on Anime-Planet, and flair such as avatar outlines and other rewards. We hope to launch these sorts of rewards in the near future, and will keep you posted. Though site-based rewards are coming soon, our launch updates include a number of Discord and Patreon specific perks, such as: Discord perks: choice of colors, pre-release bots and features, exclusive channels & commands, and more Exclusive sneak peeks and updates for upcoming website features Trending charts, community stats, and other feature posts Dark mode available to all users In addition to our Patreon launch, we've also opened up Dark Mode to all users. Previously, Dark Mode was only available to logged in users. Now, all users (logged in or not) can switch modes in the footer on the page. Dark Mode was one of the most requested features on Anime-Planet, and we aim to work on more features like this through our Patreon project. (note: we plan to adjust the size of the text in the footer soon as we know it's rather large :) ) Thank you, as always, for your support of Anime-Planet <3
This is a goal of ours as well - we have to spend some time looking into the Patreon API to figure out what's possible, but we do want to have supporter badges on the site in the future yes
This is awesome! Just joined at the silver tier for now. Hope it all helps and looking forward to the future!
Joined the Patreon brigade. I am not active in the forums and chat, but i love you for all these years AP. >:D
tfw you paid off your phone after two years and can afford the extra $25/mo no problem. Anyway, this place has served as my go-to anime/manga database for 12 years and an on-again-off-again forum to blow off steam through three separate forum resets. Of course I'm going to support it.