The blog bashing myspace, praising Bandcamp

There was an interesting article on hypebot extolling the virtues of Bandcamp over myspace today HERE
An interesting read, although there was a lot of Myspace bashing in it. Have used Myspace now for years, and don't believe I am alone in thinking recent changes over there have been pretty poorly received. Making a website that caters for every whim of an artist is a tricky business, you could go the clean and minimal route, like T61 site (mmm looks great, just doesn't work properly, what's with all this mood crap) or do you go for the all-out everything but the kitchen sink approach that Myspace uses. Basically, myspace just looks a mess now, something seems to break everyday, functions disappear, pages go white for no reason, you cant easilly export your friends list so you're effectively stuck with it.
Which brings us neatly to Bandcamp, nice clean interface, high quality tracks, neat discography for displaying album art. I even like the cute iframe function for header bars (works a treat) Two things prevent me from giving it the two thumbs up. First, the home page search function is beyond stupid. If I want to find an artist on a site, I don't want to be presented with some weird google ranked nonsence, I want a site search. IT'S SIMPLE. Here's what Ryan from Bandcamp support had to say;
'The trouble you are having has its origins in how Google does its indexing. Simply put, because your content was uploaded somewhat recently we have to wait around until the Google system finds its way to your page and adds it. That should happen soon, and when it does everything will be golden.'
Why is google indexing the site search ? I just want to find a track or an artist not wait for four days before I am part of a google index. Makes no sense to me at all. Ooops, was off on a rant there lol :)
Secondly, did I mention the site is VERY clean, difficult to get your foot in the door without all the bells and whistles other sites offer, so for a start-up band, unsigned act with no fans (or someone like me lol) it may feel a bit intimidating to actually find your place here. I think it worth the effort though.


Anyways, without any further fanfare here is Bandcamp LINK so you can marvel at my site building prowess and then proceed to make something far more tasteful lol


Oh and I'm still on Myspace as well lol, I could never leave a site, you never know, facebook might buy it and take over the world after they buy twitter. Here is my Myspace LINK (looks a mess lol)