Nah, it's not a platform that generates money based off eyeballs scrolling through ads, keeping the interface front and center for longer etc.
Spotify optimises for music/podcast/audiobooks hours consumed or songs added to playlist/downloads etc. Being lost in the UI would very much be a negative signal in the data, and easy to separate out from "I love the app and am able to play the content I want" for any analytics team.
I took it as them saying the whole phrase “forgotten community” is painting over the neglect the area has experienced. Not that it isn’t a community but that it isn’t a “forgotten community”.
You don’t end up with derelict buildings and a transient population, stray dogs and a mob graveyard over decades by being forgotten.
The city government clearly knows about it. They make promises every decade or so. The FBI discovered the mob was using it etc.
it wasn’t forgotten it has just been deprioritized or neglected.
In fact I’m surprised the article didn’t go in harder on the city’s ineptitude.
Forgotten community is a euphemism in that sense.
Some of the residents aren’t squatters but just homeowners in an undesirable area. It makes me wonder if some of the “squatters” in the area weren’t at one point homeowners whose property was damaged beyond repair.
Future boy Conan is one of my absolute favourite tv shows and it feels so pertinent to our current time. I recommend it to others often, but no one takes a chance on it :(
The problem is people won’t want to send their kids to school in the dark and end up more depressed waking up and going to work themselves in the dark.
For southern and middle USA , it’s not going to be a big deal, either option likely works. For Northern USA and Canada I fear going to daylight time is going to be terrible but once it’s down there won’t be any easy way to switch.
For the few albums that are there sure, it works. Unfortunately the vast majority of the time there isn’t anything there. Most artists just aren’t on bandcamp. Or the artist is on there but only a subset of their albums are. Even if I started using it more, it would be so rare, as I’d need to go use Spotify or my own physical/digital collection most of the time, which means when the album ends I’m more likely to keep listening on the current platform, not think to switch back to bandcamp to see once again if the newest Metric album is suddenly there, or if any albums apart from one are there etc.
Also the amount of similarly named artist/albums that are tributes or fan “sequels” or straight up just the same named artist a a little bit of friction to make search.
Bandcamp exists in an odd space where unless I’m willing to have my music choices heavily restricted it then it loses out to traditional a-la-carte purchasing of albums whether physically or on digital storefronts, or to just using a streaming service. If I was a young kid in primary school again, it would still lose out to pirating music as well I think.
I too listen to albums in their entirety and don’t interact too much with autogenerated content.
But I was on Apple Music and now I’m on Spotify. The amount of new albums I get to listen to would put a massive dent in my bank account if I was buying them as I go.
I still purchase Vinyl and the odd CD, but that is reserved for my top must have records. A flat rate for music just makes sense to me, and allows me to check out and discover so many more new artists than in the old days, where my music taste was much narrower and confined to more mainstream “classic” rock and the like.
Spotify optimises for music/podcast/audiobooks hours consumed or songs added to playlist/downloads etc. Being lost in the UI would very much be a negative signal in the data, and easy to separate out from "I love the app and am able to play the content I want" for any analytics team.