natto Ok let me explain the difference to you. Lets take a look at Qi system;
Lets take Immortal Mortal for example.
24 chs/week release rate
7 chs/week for free
24 - 7 = 17ch
So every week 17ch will be added into the premium pool. Immortal Mortal started with 10 premium chapters. After a week there will be 27 premium chapters. Next week that will become 44... After 3 months you will be 214 chapters behind premium readers. Understand the system?
Now lets look at patreon;
You will be behind a fixed number of chapters behind the paying people. The number will never grow. If they are giving out 10 chapters early access, then it will always stay as 10 chapters. You will never be behind more than that 10 chapters. It won't grow to hundreds of chapters like in Qi system. Understand the difference?
You can stop paying for patreon any time you want, but if you start reading premium chapters in Qi, you better not stop till the end of the novel. Because once you stop, it will take months for free chapters to catch up to the point you are at and it will be pointless that you payed to unlock chapters to that point. So if you start unlocking premium chapters, you better be ready to keep doing it till the end of the novel...