is it just me or has bandcamp been having a lot more download errors and 429s lately

@typhlosion yeah they're running into scaling failure and part of how they've tried to deal with it is by throttling the rate at which people can download stuff, instead of scaling up their download servers and/or improving the download process

@typhlosion it's really frustrating and when I've contacted their support on twitter they're just like "maybe don't try downloading stuff so quickly" and I'm like... dude, you're, like, a music download service

@fluffy yeah, i was able to download one thing so far tonight. i downloaded one thing, and since then it's consistently given me download errors. lmao

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