Bandcamp has laid off most of their engineers

https://bsky.app/profile/grmnygrmny.bandcamp.com/post/3mpgvo7l2v22t

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dweinus• 23 days ago

Customer and/or musician rug pull in 3...2...

bpev• 23 days ago

fwiw, currently moving my music to subvert.fm. In the past, Bandcamp has been the first place I pointed people. But have slowly felt more and more uncomfortable with it ever since the initial Epic acquisition.

znpy• 23 days ago

In the past, Bandcamp has been the first place I pointed people.

I've stopped enthusiastically recommending services to people because i've seen too many service turn into shit, and then i felt awful for getting friends and family into issues with enshittified services.

roryirvine• 23 days ago

They've lasted longer than I thought they would, especially after they were destabilised so badly by the initial (likely deliberately vindictive) layoffs back in 2023.

It's such a pity - Bandcamp was hugely important in the 2010s, and ought to have been able to continue building on that success. They remained profitable until well after the acquisition, but Epic and Songtradr decided to destroy it for very little gain.

jjraden• 22 days ago

That link is broken, but this link from the same user seems relevant:

https://bsky.app/profile/grmnygrmny.bsky.social/post/3mpgvo7...

ciotog• 21 days ago

Yeah, they changed their username from grmnygrmny.bandcamp.com to grmnygrmny and Bluesky invalidated all of the existing links to the original posts.

One of the reasons why Bluesky isn't a viable alternative yet to other social media platforms...

rendaw• 22 days ago

This is terrifying... are there any other decent indie music marketplaces? And even more, why kill this? How could it possibly not have been profitable?

Bandcamp has laid off most of their engineers

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