About big collections and downloads [Possible WIP?]

Hi. I want to discuss some things about downloads of big packs.

For starters, I always try to improve on what I can, but in the past months, I only got people presenting bad ideas and being obnoxious about stuff.

I'm all against Patreon being super bad to scroll through the posts so I have 2 ideas that will help you download the files. One is super annoying to me and the other I think it's fine after I finally finish it.

Let's start with the fine for me:

I can list the links for you to download the files directly, without needing to open the post and with that I can make a list wherever you prefer. Be it here in a post or maybe google docs sheets or even a text files. This will still give you some trouble because you will still have to do many clicks if you don't use a download manager or something. However, this is only accessible to patrons and it's the most fast and safe option for me.

The second is:

Placing the files in some service or in big chunks that will be downloadable in a single post. Either of these are SUPER bad for me to do for anything before June. I started gathering the files and after hours of work, it was about 0,1% of all files. Not to mention that I have to go through all older sets and export them as JPG because most of them are in .PNG.

If you want to have an idea, an extra post has about 12MB with JPG, in PNG it can have around 200-250MB. Adding the non-extra sets that has about 100MB we can have 300-350mb for each sets (some are bigger some are smaller). But if you think of it 100 sets will be near 30GB (I have waay way more than 100 sets, you can add a 0 safely to this). And we are only talking about file size, imagine having to deal with more than 2000 zip files.

Now all this makes me wonder how much people value my work. Every time there is people pushing me for something and yet I didn't raise my prices in a long while and I'm still always trying to improve.

So I wonder how many people would still be complaining if I did the first option. Because with that I'm saving you some time while not taking super long for me (it still takes long, but not that long). The first option I wouldn't even show with a post with everything at once, it's just too much. But at least it's doable. Remember that I'll have to access like... 2500 posts (I'm already not counting polls and some info).

For me, the only reason to make it easier to download, is because Patreon is buggy to scroll. Because otherwise I feel like the price I charge is a very fair price for "eat what you can".

Just the thought of having this issue makes me want to give up.