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Did they? Bummer. They were great to a band my friends were in, but that was 7-8 years ago now.
They’re good… for now. Nothing terrible has happened since their acquisition, Bandcamp Fridays are still going on and fees haven’t raised, but I feel like it’s only a matter of time. The only new feature I can think of that was added was allowing payments natively without PayPal.
After the workers tried to unionize, Epic sold it off to another company
https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/bandcamp-layoffs-oakland-songtradr-epic-18429463.php
Despite bandcamp being profitable at the time, the new owner said “the financial state of Bandcamp has not been healthy”
So I wouldn’t expect that for now to continue