Wow! I'm making #Bandwagon -- an open source, community-focused alternative to #Bandcamp that anyone can self-host.
As of this morning, there are 99 #Musicians and #Bands who have set up #Fediverse profiles on bandwagon.fm -- and half of those already indexable on search engines.
So I'm humbled by the number of people who are giving it a go. There's obviously lots of people out there looking for something new.
I promise to do my best to give y'all the tools you deserve.
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victor tsaran
in reply to Ben Pate 🤘🏻 • • •Ben Pate 🤘🏻
in reply to victor tsaran • • •@vick21 @Tamasg
I hope so too. #Accessibility is important -- especially for an app based on music
I've talked to a couple of screen reader users, who have bravely volunteered to test out early versions of this code
They've told me that it works well (mostly) and I'm still running through their feedback to make things better
So I won't say Bandwagon is 100% WCAG compliant, but please try it out and let me know if you have any trouble. I jump on accessibility issues as quick as possible
Erion
in reply to Ben Pate 🤘🏻 • • •I have been looking for a simple but comprehensive self-hosted alternative to Bandcamp, and I have to say this is very nice so far.
I also love the Emissary default template, everything so far works great with screen reading software and it's lightweight to run on a Raspberry Pi. Thank you
Ben Pate 🤘🏻
in reply to Erion • • •@erion
Really? It runs on a Rasberry Pi??Thats awesome. You made my day!
If you’re self-hosting, lots of things are changing rapidly with Bandwagon, so we should connect somewhere (email, Mastodon, GitHub) so I can make sure I don’t break your site.
Erion
in reply to Ben Pate 🤘🏻 • • •Thank you very much for the offer. At the moment there are a few missing things, such as embeddable tracks or possibly some sort of payment processor support, so I'm holding off on hosting it in production for now, but I'm definitely keeping an eye on how things will end up. Even without Fedi support, there is nothing out there which is as simple to set up and use as Bandwagon, so that's a plus as well.
I also really like the way Emissary works, it's quite inspiring and refreshing to see high quality software being contributed back to the open source community.