I really, really wish that I could have more granular email settings for Bandcamp releases I might be interested in 🙏

Specifically, I wish I could turn off emails for singles and merch. I understand why artists want to promote those things, but I'm never going to purchase them. I purchase albums and discographies only.

I don't want to turn emails off completely, but I follow 1656 artists + labels and the emails are becoming unmanageable—I'm drowning in them 😖

@bandcamp@piefed.social
#Bandcamp #Rants

Oooo are we doing bandcamp rants!

I love how you are only able to see messages from the app and the messages section just doesn't exist in the browser. Fucking why!?

I love how I can search for the exact artist name and track I'm looking for and the search will be unable to find it. The search function in general is fucking shit.

I love how the tags mean absolutely nothing due to people being unable to tag their music fucking accurately!

I love how I can click on a bandcamp link, within the bandcamp app and it won't fucking open it. It opens a fucking browser instead.

All these issues have existed for 10 years or more at this point but thats OK because 6 years or so ago they introduced playlists. Wow, thanks!

The emails are fucking obnoxious so I have them all blocked. I rely on getting notifications for new releases on my phone because I don't want the email spam but then quite often it won't notify me of new announcements or releases for artists I follow or even for releases I have in my wishlist and I am waiting for.

Bandcamp has always been the best place to find releases within my niche interests but fuck me the user experience has not changed in over a decade and it has always been absolute trash.

Alternatively, I wish Bandcamp offered RSS feeds, one for releases and the other for the community tab. If the artist wants to promote something, he/she can do so without cluttering the main part of the platform.