in a move towards enhancing its wantlist experience, the online physical music database and marketplace announced Wednesday .
Wantlister is a Discogs-specific web app, with users connecting their two accounts in order to organize and manage their oft-unwieldy Discogs. Wantlister, which soft-launched last year, stays in sync with your wantlist and helps users keep things tidy and organized based on several specifications, offering the ability to filter items by price, format, condition and — crucial for shipping costs — seller location.
At launch, Wantlister and wantlist will remain separate entities, however the company said the goal is to eventually integrate the newly acquired technology and all its features into the Discogs platform. A representative also noted that the acquisition is solely for the Wantlister technology and that no personnel from Stoat Labs, a boutique collective of developers based primarily in the southeastern United States, will be joining the Discogs team.
“The Discogs community deserves best-in-class solutions to meet their record-collecting needs, both those developed in-house and those acquired from equally passionate external sources,” said Discogs COO. “The acquisition and integration of Wantlister addresses immediate needs that our users have been asking about for years. It is just the latest example of our investment to modernize the Discogs platform for all users.