And now that it's up and I can login, all the playlists and music are gone. Looks like a fresh new account. Seems like they still have some issues..
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Both Spotify and Discord are not on AWS
Yet they're experiencing outages at the same time. If they don't share a platform then that actually makes it look less like a coincidence I'd say, no? (still not saying it means anything, maybe they have some joint dependencies that are down for completely unrelated reasons)
People are falsely reporting, just look at how many comments on the downdetector cloudflare page are actually about Discord/Spotify.
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#143The painful bit was that I got automatically logged out with all of those "offline" songs. Is it a feature or a bug? IMO if there was no logout then many clients would just keep playing the cached songs, and people would not notice a disruption that much.
I am under the impression that Spotify doesn't care a lot about UX in general. Inconsistencies in gesture handling, sessions still buggy after years, being logged out as soon as the API is unreachable, directly playing a song when opening a link, etc
Many (not all though), of their best engineers and designers have left after the IPO, that's why. So, a lot of people that made it a success initially have moved on. They don't pay super well, so the new people that came later on are not necessary the best.
That's why Spotify has been slow on introducing new features or fixing existing ones.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
desktop
The desktop app is indeed horrible. To start with, a substantial part of the right hand screen real estate is permanently to your social media presence. Don't want to connect anything? Still can't dismiss this entire waste of space. On iOS it's fairly simply to remove songs from the active queue. God help you on desktop. No consistency in design. Please pay more UI/UX staff, and less Rogan.
on MacOS -> View -> Friends Activity... come on man
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#145Is there a minor irony that they recently rejected me without an interview for an SRE role, despite matching 1:1 in my experience to the role they had open? I'm not bitter, but something is probably wrong when they're turning down qualified candidates without even speaking to them first.
> something is probably wrong when they're turning down qualified candidates without even speaking to them first Maybe I've only worked at bad companies, but this is the norm where I have been. Literally anything in your resume could have triggered someone to nix an interview. Interview culture is very "best of the best" in ways that make completely backwards sense.
That's worrying, but I am serious about matching experience 1:1 with the role that was presented.
Perhaps they assume I'm overqualified, but that seems odd, especially in this climate.
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#146And this is why I refuse to give up on owning media and relying on streaming. Discord seems to be gone, as well.
As I've said before: Spotify / Tidal / YouTube Music is great for discovery, IMO. Just not consumption. I use them for checking out new artists, or albums by artists that I haven't heard before. But once I've passed from the "Huh, that was interesting" stage to "Yeah, I think I'm gonna listen to this album again in the future", it's time to buy it, rip it to MP3/FLAC(if I bought a physical copy), and get it into my m…
exactly, when i'm listening to music for 8 hours a day, discovering new artists and community made playlists is the killer feature. what i'm starting to hate about spotify is the politics behind what music is available. i invest the time into building out playlists just to have half the songs get blacked out a few days later because "money", yet the record label has the album on youtube as f2p.
also, show me how my monthly subscription is divided up while you're at it.
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#147Earlier quoted context omitted.
downdetector just uses search trends from google and twitter and other social apps, its definitely not checking if the site is 'down' on its own.
How do they know what people are searching? I've never seen an api for that
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am under the impression that Spotify doesn't care a lot about UX in general. Inconsistencies in gesture handling, sessions still buggy after years, being logged out as soon as the API is unreachable, directly playing a song when opening a link, etc
They absolutely do not care. My favorite feature is the ability to download podcasts for offline play--podcasts that are then inaccessible when offline because the rest of the UI requires an internet connection to load and function.
You might want to have a look at Spodcast which does just that, create an RSS feed off Spotify "(s)podcasts":
Spodcast is a caching Spotify podcast to RSS proxy. Using Spodcast you can follow Spotify-hosted netcasts/podcasts using any player which supports RSS, thus enabling the use of older hardware which is not compatible with the Spotify (web) app. Spodcast consists of the main Spodcast application - a Python 3 command line tool - and a PHP-based RSS feed generator. It uses the librespot-python library to access the Spotift API. To use Spodcast you need a (free) Spotify account. Spodcast only supports the Spotify podcast service, it does not interface with the music streaming service.
Source: I'm the author.
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This is why? Because once every year or two it'll be unavailable for a couple of hours?
To be more generous, there are also many cases where more obscure music will start evaporating from your playlists. Some of us have serious problems with this kind of UX.
Exactly, it already happened to me: https://blog.dijit.sh/importance-of-self-hosted-backups
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
> then waste their revenue on SV dev salaries wouldnt really call that a waste if those devs are producing meaningful features and/or fixing bugs. devs work on the features they are told to, they don't direct what features get put in place or even how those features should behave in UX, most of the time. seems more a design and/or project management failure, to me.
I'd say if those people are not being utilized to improve the product, then yes it is a waste - who is to blame for the waste is a different matter, but management is the obvious place to look.
Considering how shit their cents per listen rates are in recent years, they should honestly be trying to compensate the artists they host more than their devs at this point. I've cancelled my sub largely because of this fact.