Discogs keep their ‘ogs’ database empire growing.
Having built themselves up to be the largest worldwide music collectors database, Discogs followed up their flagship website with Vinylhub, a directory that allows you to find your beloved vinyl seller anywhere in the world. The Discogs community have now followed this up adding four more ‘ogs’ to their growing collection of consolidated databases.
gearogs is a place for music enthusiasts to record and share their collections of music hardware, whilst bibliogs aims to be the oracle for book collectors, filmogs for films and comicogs for, you’ve guessed it, comics. It’s still early doors for the databases, so there is no functionality allowing users to trade between themselves yet but each site can be accessed using your original Discogs login details.
We caught up with Ron from the Discogs team to find out a little more on how the expansion developed into what it is are today:
“Similar to Vinylhub, these other sites came straight from ideas within our community. People were always asking “What about a Discogs for X?” It was just a matter of listening to what people wanted – a user generated site for other things they collect.
Gearogs really started ramping up with the popularity of turntables this holiday season. If I remember correctly, turntables outsold all other home audio equipment this year on Amazon. After talking with fellow Discoggers, we found out many of them own more than one turntable. So we introduced a simple form on Gearogs, making it easy to submit a turntable to the database. Similar to Discogs, you can then add the turntable to your collection or browse other turntables and add them to your wantlist. The early users on the site are helping us craft the future of Gearogs. Based straight on their feedback, we’re adding discussions to each gear and just added sorting and faceting features. Not surprising, a lot of Discogs users are musicians, which means we get a ton of users who have been collecting audio equipment for years. Gearogs gives them a place to dig in and talk about their collections.
The same goes for bibliogs, filmogs, and comicogs. These are what the Discogs community has asked for. We’re just providing the platform for them to collect and connect with likeminded folks who have the same passions.”
Source: Vinyl Factory
