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Imagine how much fun trolls would have locking every post they did not like.....

An in house player is possible, but would require $ and outside of a half dozen people, donations were sparse this year. Usually I just ask the members on facebook to make up the difference, but we didn't have a crash this year so I didn't want to ask them more than I have to as they do not use the board. We actually fell short of the renewal fee for the site, so I had to use the update money for that. I am working on rescheduling the update, but we have been traveling and our schedule has not matched the tech guy who can do it.

I am working on a massive project at the moment, and once we get to the right point in it, then I should be able to free up some money to do the update and possible add some enhancements, like a file upload for each member who donates to the site to pay for such a feature. No idea the cost until I price it out and decide on the scope. Once the site is updated and new folks come in, if the usual suspects run them off, then it will finally be time to move on from them. But maybe they will play nice. Surprises abound. Things seem relative chill, or at least you are all working it on on your own.

The photo view thing may be able to be changed to a music and video player at some point, though the easiest method for both is to simply get a free Youtube channel, use A.I. to make your title cards, upload your audio there and then link it here. Give it a try, it works fine. I am going to start posting a song a day on Facebook, (already have 1200 songs ready to post), I am waiting to see what happens with Suno when they switch and cancel all their models. It may go significantly backwards or have egregious rules/licensing terms. We will have to see. I have been working with several hit writers and one hit artist who are using Suno on their back catalog. One guy has over 20K songs written with a who's who of LA and Nashville writers, but that only had a guitar vocal demo of each, usually during writing sessions. It is amazing how productive these people can be. They write, write and then write more for 40+ years and it stacks up.

Good questions, but a hard no on letting anyone lock a thread. The audio player in some version is something I would love to do if those using it help pay the cost.

Brian