David Gerard> Throwaway, but I work at Bandcamp. We're all very frightened and don't know what the future holds. We were told that some, but not all, will get offers from Songtradr and it may be up to a month before we receive an offer. It's pretty depressing.
LAUREN@davidgerard So sorry about this. The digital content world has descended into an unholy mess.
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦@davidgerard oh for fuck's sake. so sorry to hear about that; and of course it's a move calculated to push people out.
[object Object]@mawhrin @davidgerard literally only months after they unionized too. fuck Epic Megagames and fuck Tim Sweeney
@davidgerard fucking damn it, I was actually planning to switch to Bandcamp as my main listening platform (and buy a lot more albums). I should have expected this kind of shit from Tim Sweeney’s presumably clammy, definitely fascist hands being around Bandcamp’s neck
@zzt it's the Rough Trade Shop for the 2020s. There is not really an alternative as yet - anyone can set up a web store for FLACs, but Bandcamp has made all the pieces work.
@davidgerard exactly! streamlining purchases, high quality downloads, and streaming (as much as I love FLACs, sometimes I just need to press the button in my car that makes the music happen) is the hard bit. I really would love an open source alternative, but it’d definitely take a long time to achieve the same kind of feature set
dj2mn@davidgerard again with the Wiltshire should come out immediately and tell us his thoughts...
Joe Dowland@davidgerard you'd hope they would sort that kind of thing out as part of the legal documents
A Shiny Blue Thing@davidgerard If you follow that subthread, there's some interactions from a current SongTradr dev and the bandcamp employee and it looks like this might be much more positive than when Epic bought them.