Editing Discogs (section)

==History==
Discogs was started in 2000 by Kevin Lewandowski who worked as a programmer at [[Intel]].<ref name="Vinyl revolution">{{cite web | url = https://ra.co/features/1166 |first1=Richard |last1=Carnes |date=26 Mar 2010 | title = Discogs: Vinyl revolution | publisher = Resident Advisor | accessdate = 2023-12-13 | quote = It took about six months working nights and weekends on Discogs, and I launched it in November 2000.}}</ref><ref name=":0" /> It was originally started from a computer in Lewandowski's closet and was limited to electronic music. By 2015, Discogs had 37 employees, 3 million users, and a monthly traffic of 20 million visits.<ref name=":0" />

In 2005, Discogs launched a marketplace where users can buy and sell albums.<ref>{{cite web|last=Garber |first=David |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/discogs-interview-vinyl-records-marketplace/ |title=How Discogs Dragged Record Collecting Into the 21st Century |publisher=Vice |date=2015-02-26 |access-date=2022-03-13}}</ref> The Discogs Marketplace is modeled similar to [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]] and [[eBay]], where sellers offer items for sale and a fee is charged on the sold item.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Savage |first1=Mark |date=2018-05-02 |title=Vinyl collectors spent millions on Discogs last year |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43973448 |url-status=live |access-date=2023-06-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180502211203/http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-43973448 |archive-date=May 2, 2018}}</ref> Its album listings are filterable by the country they ship from, format, currency, genre, style, format description, media condition, year released, seller name, and whether the buyer is invited to "make an offer." 

In July 2007, a new [[subscription]]-based system for sellers was introduced on the site, called ''Market Price History''.  It gave premium users access to the past price items that were sold for up to 12 months ago by previous sellers who had sold exactly the same release (though 60 days of information was free). At the same time, the US$12 per year charge for advanced subscriptions was abolished, as it was felt that the extra features should be made available to all subscribers, now that a different [[revenue stream]] had been found from sellers and purchasers. Later that year, all paid access features were discarded and full use of the site became free of charge, allowing all users to view the full 12-month Market Price History of each item.<ref name="auto" />