At Concert Archives, our goal is to celebrate live music and how it brings us together as a community. To remind people of these positive memories, we send out automated Concert Anniversary Notifications to help fans relive these special moments. Not Every Memory Is a Happy One Unfortunately, not all concerts are joyful experiences. In […]
New Tools & Features / Platform News
New Historian “Add/Edit Concert” Features
In early April, we released the “Historian Concert Compare” Tool, which allows Historians to compare duplicate concerts and report any errors to us. That tool has proven very useful, and several of our Historians have been making good use of it. We added another feature for Historians, which should make things even easier for them […]
Platform News
New Terms & Conditions Regarding Prohibited Content
About a week ago, we discovered a few photos containing nudity uploaded onto the platform. The photos were artistic in nature and part of a concert performance, but we both paused for a moment and had to ask ourselves: “Should we allow nudity on the platform?” We had a brief discussion and went back and […]
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Website Version 13.0, Mobile Version 5.7.0
We’re continuously adding new features and making improvements, here are some of the latest updates in this release: A lot of improvements to how we show Attendees for concerts/bands/venues/locations! Attendees are now sorted by importance based on their relationship to the user (friends, users they follow, followers). We now display the relationship and the follow […]
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Release Notes: Website V.12.13, App V.5.6.0
We’ve made quite a few updates to the platform over the last few weeks. We’ve already discussed some of these, but there’s a few things that we haven’t mentioned and a few cool projects in the works. What We’ve Already Discussed We released the Compare Concerts tool for Historians which allow our Historians to better […]
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New Feature for Historians: Compare Concerts and Report Errors
A couple of years ago, we created functionality to auto-merge duplicate concerts that had identical data (dates, bands, venue, location). Around that same time, we created an internal tool for us to compare two concerts together in order to easily see which data wasn’t the same. This tool has made our lives easier because it’s […]
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New Database Guidelines for Locations and Bands
If you’ve been with us for a while, you’ve probably realized that we’re constantly updating our database guidelines. This isn’t because what we have is necessarily incorrect, but usually because we find new cases that we hadn’t thought of before. And, once again, this has occurred with locations and bands. So take a look and […]
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Gigit is joining Concert Archives!
We’ve got some exciting news to share, Gigit is officially joining forces with Concert Archives! 🎉 If you’re not familiar with Gigit, you can think of them as kind of a Dutch version of Concert Archives. Before diving into the full background and details, I know you’re probably wondering what this means for you, so […]
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Legacy Transfers: Preserving Concert Memories of Our Loved Ones
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Setlist.fm Imports are Finally Here! 🎉🎉🎉
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