Drum & Bass Music Category (Official Tag)
Having just had our previous campaign closed, stating that this is now solved by CUSTOM TAGS, this is absolutely not the case.
Twitch has always had music tags such as: Trance, House, Techno, Dubstep and others which sit directly underneath the Main Music Category.
Drum & Bass is equally as large a community on Twitch as any of those categories, and instead of enabling us to unify through a central music category, you state that Custom Tags is enough. It is not. It spreads our community out through all the general misspellings; eg. DNB, Drumandbass, Drumnbass, Jungle, Liquid, Neurofunk, Ragga, Techstep, Oldskool, Liquidfunk and many more.
Please give us an Official Category Tag;
Drum and Bass.
THANK YOU.
Twitch no longer supports "official" tags, but we have created a series of new genre-based collections including one for Drum and Bass. This will aggregate all live music streams in a single, permanent location to bookmark here: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/collection/drum-and-bass-streams.
This not only includes streams with the tags DNB and DRUMANDBASS, but also JUNGLE, LIQUID, NEUROFUNK, RAGGA, TECHSTEP, OLDSKOOL, LIQUIDFUNK, DARKSTEP, FUNKSTEP, ELECTROFUNK, and DRUMNBASS.
In addition, a shelf will also appear in our music directory featuring a selection of live channels when there are enough live music streams using the tag concurrently: https://www.twitch.tv/directory/music
#DNB
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TangibleCode commented
Twitch, please finally act on this. We need a Drum & Bass tag. There are simply too many variations that people use - dnb, drumandbass, drumnbass, d&b, drum&bass, etc. - this is trivial to do, and you will help us bassheads out with the fragmentation.
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syntax976 commented
we NEED a DrumandBass tag this is such a large genre. it is needed!
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rooticles commented
I tried taggin a test video and couldn't use the custom tag for DnB. Maybe it was a fail on my part but we defo need a DnB category under Music imo.
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OldLadyRaver commented
As someone who is about to start streaming on Twitch and I play DnB, I would love to have this tag please!
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nikocheck commented
Certainly makes sense to have an official tag for drum and bass on twitch! Other platforms have this and it would provide less time to input and more time to stream.
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The_Omnirock commented
Drum & Bass has been a main stay in electronic music almost from the beginning with a large gathering of musicians, fans congregating on Twitch. Let's get this tag!
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ReadySteadyCookie commented
The Drum and Bass community is one of the most lively, vibrant and inclusive spaces on Twitch. It generates a great deal of site traffic and revenue, yet it is seemingly not given the recognition it deserves by the Twitch development team.
As others have already stated, this genre has been around significantly longer than some others that already have their own tag.
Drum and Bass is as relevant now as it it ever was - perhaps even more so now that the community has access to this global platform.
Please give this genre and your content creators the respect they deserve by creating a 'Drum and Bass' tag. -
cAPTAINkNZ commented
Do the right thing!
“Drum and Bass” is it!
<3
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Yteedon commented
I'm so confused as to why this can't be completed. Explain to me what the process is here as I would assume this would take a developer less than 10 minutes to complete this task. Am I way off in terms of my estimate?
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CerebralTag commented
A custom tag is not the same as a DNB tag and this community deserves to be recognized in the same way as trance and house. Custom tags have more of a chance of splintering communities across the board.
Frankly, if I can't find MissJackalope under a #DNB tag I would be shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, if I don't just go elsewhere.
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Looptron commented
Twitch, this is not acceptable. Drum and Bass is a precursor to many styles of music including one of your other tags "Dubstep". Without the DnB and Jungle community they would not even exist. Please give us the ability to browse within our community properly so we can support the genre and artists we spend money on and care about so much... A custom tag is not the solution we need. Please fix this.
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HandyWithPaperAndPen commented
You had one job Twitch.
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DjAjacked commented
I was all excited because I thought we had one, did not realize that twitch had “fixed the issue with a custom tag”. Come on Twitch, do better.
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CreativeB34ST commented
What's the correct word for racism for music genres? They sure as h*ll are discriminating against it, while it's a BIG genre.
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NielOfStones commented
Oh I missed that they just wanted to say use the custome tag. Thanks for poining that out.
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GentleJungle_ commented
I feel embarrassed for whomever is in charge at Twitch for hashtags. They need a serious lesson on the history of music. DnB came before Dubstep and yet Dubstep has a hashtag, while DnB does not. Respect the source and culture, Twitch!
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MissJackalope commented
Please give drum and bass its own tag. Closing the tag vote and considering this genre as a tag write-in cheapens your mission to give large music genres and twitch communities a chance to grow. If you're going to make #drumandbass a write in, please remove ALL music genre tags so all genres can be equal... Or just go the easy route and create the #drumandbass permanent tag like you've done with so many other smaller less Twitch income producing genres such as dubstep. #drumandbass, please.
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DJGHOSTRUNNER commented
I agree, and find it disheartening to have streams that are drum and bass mainly and having to tag them under EDM or DANCE music because it gives the viewers a false sense of representation on my part. Drum and Bass was actually a very influential musical style that helped create DUBSTEP... Dubstep became known AFTER drum and bass but there is a dubstep tag on this platform. People are starting to migrate to other hosting sites because it is an issue for the streamers and the viewers. It's a shame we even have to ask for something like this. If you go on beatport, soundcloud, mixcloud, youtube, you will find DNB or drum and bass tags.
I hope someone is listening out there to remedy this after almost 2 years of asking to fix it.
Please fix it <3
=DJGR
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Mr_Miasma_ commented
Much needed tag, would help a lot with discovery of this wide ranging genre & our huge twitch community.
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JonGibbins commented
Completely shocked that the previous campaign was closed. A custom tag does not solve the issue here. Representation should be equal across the whole musical spectrum, not just in the genres that pull in the cash.
Please, for such a major genre of music it is criminal that drum and bass doesn't get the platform it deserves.