r/listenbrainz

f you don’t like clicking links, here is the intro summary:

>TL;DR: The growth of ListenBrainz has caught up with us, and our limited team is working on replacing central parts of our infrastructure. In the meantime, many features are unstable.

>We are victims of our success. While in the long term this is a good problem to have, the sharp increase in users over the past year and a half has left our infrastructure cracking at the seams.

>The good news: Your listens are being stored and imported without issue, even if there are delays. The core service is not compromised and we ask that you please keep submitting your listens. Your stats and playlists will be back!

>However, we know that every other week your statistics, weekly playlists, and other features fail to generate for everyone, and cause crashes. We know it is frustrating, and we share that feeling.

>While we are aware of the issues, fixing them is far from simple and requires us to completely rework all the crucial parts of our infrastructure

For more info, please check out the blog post.

Much <3 to the ListenBrainz team for all their hard work throughout!

Intentional or not, the influx of the BTS cult bot-scrobbling their songs - each one "listening" to a song once every fifteen seconds, twenty-four hours a day, every day - is a form of DDOS. The website has become noticeably laggy and often times out, and I believe this is principally due to the influx of the BTS ARMY spamming their wildly-inflated and fraudulent stats.

I recently posted a respectful and well-reasoned plea on their subreddit, asking them to stop hammering Listenbrainz. It was almost immediately taken down due to breaking their "No hate or snark posting." rule. Here's the thing - I used facts and logic, no hate or snark, explaining how the bot spamming is so obvious and that it's commonly known that BTS-related stats have no legitimacy, thus they are doing the opposite what they are intending to - their behavior is breeding distrust and enmity against BTS fans - while hobbling Listenbrainz in the process.

A look at the global statistics for the site reveals the absurdity of what's going on, and renders the stats meaningless as they obviously don't reflect the true listening habits of the Listenbrainz community.

Listenbrainz staff are overloaded, I'm sure, so I understand why these people haven't been banned. I'd like to offer my services to identify and ban those that aren't acting in good faith to accurately scrobble their listens. I've been happy to support the site with a monthly donation, but not to subsidize (ab)users that bog down the servers with 16x the scrobbles in any given period. Please DM me, I already have a list of the worst offenders!

Did you know that every week, after the very official dev meeting, there is a very unofficial community meeting on the MetaBrainz Discord?

More details: https://community.metabrainz.org/t/metabrainz-community-meeting/815437