What do you think Bandcamp should be improving? What would a better alternative look like? Genuinely curious as an artist pretty satisfied with Bandcamp.

I don't think there needs to be an alternative, but Bandcamp needs to put more effort into getting more artists on its platform and for those artists to expand their catalogs. I buy a lot of albums on Bandcamp but it's annoying when I see a new release somewhere and the artist isn't on Bandcamp, or when an artist only puts their latest album there.

Bandcamp could also put more effort into recommendations based on a user's purchases, or just when viewing an artist's page. Not "we recommend this new album that is trending" but "this artist is similar to this other one" in the style that the old what.cd site had, with its massive graphed connections from one artist to another based on style (within a genre) of music.

The UI design is just awful for this day and age. It looks like MySpace from 15 years ago.

For example you get to an album page and there's just so much crap. The album and the player should be the main focus but the player is this tiny thing relegated into a corner.

The straight forward oldschool page layout is one of the things I really love about Bandcamp. It's clear and concise and fast.

Bandcamp's privacy settings are also pretty awful. There is no mechanism for making my library private; anyone can search my username and see what music I own. I suppose you can "hide" individual albums, but that's not great.

Are you talking about Spotify or Bandcamp? I believe OP was talking about Bandcamp.

I was talking about Spotify. I guess I misunderstood - thanks for clarifying that.

But it would also probably drive more sales and probably attract more artists.