Thanks to everyone who shared, commented and in other ways contributed to my post about starting a discussion around artists, communities and YouTube «suckage» yesterday. I will go thru it all!
But right now I am rigging for a dance performance in Trondheim 🙂
The upcoming #faircamp release will feature "unlisted releases", that is, you can add the flag "unlisted" to the release manifest/section to hide it from all publicly accessible pages, while still being able to visit the page if you know the permalink.
There are some minor implications for label mode though, which I'd be happy to have double-checked - if you're a (current or potential) faircamp site operator, do you have any thoughts on this?
"An unlisted release is never visible on the home/index page.
In label mode there are some additional intricacies: An artist that has only unlisted releases is not visible on the home/index page, but in turn, all of these unlisted releases are visible on the artist page, as the artist page itself is implicitly unlisted then. If however, an artist has even just a single listed release, it becomes visible on the home/index page, and on the artist page itself all unlisted releases are not visible anymore."
I feel like this is sorta one of those "this is not technically true, but it is practically true and doesn't have to continue to be true" situations, would you agree?
Like if I would ask for a static site generator the chance is pretty high that the first three someone would point me towards would be terminal based.
But of course this does not have to be true!
I think that making easy gui experiences might be a good way to empower non hackers/non wannabe hackers.
Of course I also think we should learn people to get more hackery and less I-only-use-polished-capitalistic-software, but I guess that is a different (allthought very related) discussion maybe...