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226 points cloudfudge | 3 comments | 18 Oct 24 16:17 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jsheard ◴[18 Oct 24 17:28 UTC] No.41881587[source]▶
How is Bandcamp doing nowadays? I know the backstory of it being bought by Epic, then Epic realizing they have no use for a music store and selling it off to Songtradr who immediately gutted it by firing half of the staff, but I don't use it enough to know if enshittification has set in yet.
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mixedbit ◴[18 Oct 24 18:11 UTC] No.41881975[source]▶
I haven't notice any degradation so far. Recently they even announced a Bandcamp Friday - a day when a Bandcamp commission is 0 and all income from sales goes to the artists. Doesn't look like they try to squeeze as much profits as possible and slowly kill the platform in doing so.
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1. lancesells ◴[18 Oct 24 18:41 UTC] No.41882259[source]▶
I think that's been going on since early 2020. And yeah, I can't really tell a difference between Bandcamp before it was sold and today. It's a shame that they not only sold to Epic of all companies but then fired so many people.
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2. pessimizer ◴[18 Oct 24 21:25 UTC] No.41883631[source]▶
> fired so many people.

If there's no degradation, it should have been done long ago. Those salaries come out of musicians' pockets.

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3. lancesells ◴[19 Oct 24 12:58 UTC] No.41887516[source]▶
Maybe. It's really hard to say because you don't know what it took to build Bandcamp up to what it is today. We also don't know if things are falling apart or if the people still working there have twice their normal work.