For all the flak that SoundCloud receives, at its core it’s still a great service. It serves to disseminate and expose tracks to people who might not have heard them otherwise. One of the key methods of doing so is in reposting tracks, i.e., sharing tracks directly to your profile. Entire accounts and business models have been created out of reposting tracks on SoundCloud.
Unfortunately, SoundCloud has made the crazy decision to bury the repost button within a menu below a track. While this likely won’t affect repost networks which commonly use schedulers to automate the process, it will most definitely affect the average user who is that much less likely to hit a button within a menu.
SoundCloud’s official Twitter support page has already received dozens of complaints. The official statement regarding the change coming from the account states, “We did this to make the player less cluttered and make space for new features that we hope to introduce in the coming months.”
It’s still a question of whether those new features will also be bundled in the new menu drop-down or if they’ll be standalone – if it’s the latter, will they serve a more useful function than the repost button which is now buried? It seems we’ll soon find out.
We did this to make the player less cluttered and make space for new features that we hope to introduce in the coming months. /C
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) November 2, 2016
We did this to make the player less cluttered & make space for new features that we hope to introduce in the coming months.
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) November 2, 2016
We did this to make the player less cluttered and make space for new features that we hope to introduce in the coming months. /C
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) November 2, 2016
We did this to make the player less cluttered and make space for new features that we hope to introduce in the coming months.
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) November 2, 2016
We did this to make the player less cluttered and make space for new features that we hope to introduce in the coming months. /C
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) November 2, 2016
We did this to make the player less cluttered and make space for new features that we hope to introduce in the coming months. /C
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) November 2, 2016
We did this to make the player less cluttered and make space for new features that we hope to introduce in the coming months.
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) November 2, 2016
We did this to make the player less cluttered and make space for new features that we hope to introduce in the coming months.
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) November 2, 2016
We did this to make the player less cluttered and make space for new features that we hope to introduce in the coming months
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) November 2, 2016
Sorry you feel that way, we did this to make the player less cluttered and make space for new features in the future /C
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) November 2, 2016
@BASSICSEDM The repost button is now in the drop-down menu, we did this to make the player less cluttered and make space for new features /C
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) November 2, 2016
Not disabled, but now in the dropdown menu – we did this to make the player less cluttered and make room for new features /C
— SoundCloud Support (@SCsupport) November 2, 2016
