About half of Bandcamp employees have been laid off

Post by iainctduncan » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 2:33 AM UTC

zaps wrote: post #416

Switching to full-on Dirty Hippie mode here but, goddammit why why WHY can’t we just have nice things without profit motives or acquisitions or shareholders or growth hacking and just enjoy the ride and the gifts that these kinds of resources give to the world? Why is the default setting “always sell out”? IUMA was the Bandcamp of the early aughts. It was THE place to go for discovering new exciting music that you ne…

Post by Pxtl » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 2:37 AM UTC

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See, for me I like that Bandcamp is just a store . That I see an artist I like on social media, click their bandcamp link, and if I like their music I buy it. I don't use its recommendation features, and the only social feature I use is the ability to follow an artist and thus get news-bulletins about their work. Once you get to an artist's page, the UI is simple and clean and Just Works. I can see their releases, bu…

Sweet Jesus... this is Danza/Frontierer/Car Bomb levels of heaviness but with experimental pop instead. I'm gonna have to ease myself into this album.

Post by flatline » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 2:37 AM UTC

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So we work for private equity mostly, and they are in the business of buying and selling steady growth, profitable businesses, as opposed to VC/bubble stuff, so our expectations are a lot leaner. But at a guess, I think we'd expect that to be a 40-50 person company. 118 seems high. The app is tiny, it has changed very little in who knows how long. Infrastructure is obviously the big thing, so there would be a solid s…

Accounting, human resources, sales (different than marketing), managers, security, operations, analysts, C-Suit, customer service, etc not including technical teams developers, sprint masters, qa, analysts, data warehousing, networking, support, devops, thought leaders.

Post by edude03 » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 2:44 AM UTC

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I too loved Bandcamp for its sane approach to acquiring new music; unlike "most people" I refuse to use the streaming-only services, and insist upon buying albums and listening to exactly those selections I choose (and I prefer to listen to albums in their entirety, even today). Perhaps I'm just old and set in my ways, but choices made by others, especially algorithmically generated "options maximizing my engagement"…

I also refuse to use streaming services, and prefer to curate my own music - but for me, it's less about algorithmic suggestions, and more about actually owning the things I've paid for. A streaming service or an artist can pull music from a service (see Neil Young), but they ain't going to be reaching into my hard drives and pulling the mp3s out of it.

Post by quesera » Tue, Oct 17, 2023, 2:46 AM UTC

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funny thing: i recently happened into the solution to that age-old question of "how do i transfer some file(s) between two computers in the same room". i now run an anonymous FTP server on my laptop, open to the LAN. prior to this Dropbox _was_ one of the solutions, but recently i've used that FTP server for the job several times with both Linux and Windows users. yet, you jest.

Sometimes I’ll just throw up python -m http.server In a directory as a lazy way to transfer a file (especially to my phone). It is not encrypted, and I wouldn’t be that surprised if it was also vulnerable in some ways, but it sure is easy (and it is only for lan, and pretty brief).

  ruby -run -e httpd