Okay, a couple of fun things I'm working on for #unstream right now:

- true artist pages & a process to claim them
- artist page customization - curate your platform links, add a bio, add a featured release
- embeds
- a simple directory of verified indie artists

#fairtrademusic #indiemusic #faircamp #bandcamp #mirlo #bandwagon

Want to help me test this out? I would really appreciate it:
1) go to https://unstream.stream and search for yourself
2) click on “claim your artist page”
3) try going thru the flow to verify yourself
4) let me know if you run into any issues or weirdness
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@kidlightbulbs hell yeah mate this is so cool, and that was very easy to verify!

https://unstream.stream/a/sakti?claimed

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@witton awesome! thanks for checking it out, any feedback/ideas let me know!
@kidlightbulbs
All worked although I tried putting the link on my About page first and it wasn't found. Does it have to stay on the homepage?
@simon hmm, yes I think it needs to be on the url you submit (ie your homepage, not a subpage). This is just for verification though, so you can always remove it afterward
@kidlightbulbs didn’t receive the email on my first try. Worked the second time a few hours later.
@kidlightbulbs I tried this, and while the top 'Matt Young' listing is someone else's photo and certain links, other of the links DO go to my stuff. Looks like multiple Matt Youngs have been mashed into one.
@mattyoung going to do some refactoring of the search & artist disambiguation logic this weekend that should hopefully address this. In the meantime, I added some checks to the artist claim flow, so you can at least proactively verify that *your* links are looking right. Thank you so much for reporting, I have some work to do here 😅

@kidlightbulbs Thanks very much for looking into it. I was able to verify my links and all looks right except I can't seem to change the wrong profile pic on the search results. When I go to view artist I see the correct profile pic, though.

Very cool site you've created!

@mattyoung thank you! I’m still working on improving the search, but I can definitely add a way to pull a correct photo based on your actual profiles. Let me look into that too
@kidlightbulbs I'm running into an issue where it's claiming that my site doesn't mention my artist name (Syntaxxor) despite it being in the title, description, and contents of the page. Might be running into a scraper blocker? But I'm not sure how I'd fix that beyond just disabling it.
@syntaxxor that scraper block might be it, yeah. I’m not at a computer now but I can at least override it for you on the backend tonight!
@syntaxxor quick update: I manually verified your artist page on the back-end. if you go to unstream.stream/artist-dashboard you should see it listed with the ability to edit now - let me know if you have any issues!
@kidlightbulbs went smoothly 👍🏻
@sonicwalker amazing! Thanks!
@kidlightbulbs although now logging in with the same email doesn't seem to work. It says 'No claimed artist profiles found for this email.'
@sonicwalker thanks for flagging! taking a look
@sonicwalker I just pushed a fix, you should be able to log in now! Sorry about that.