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Old June 27th, 2006
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Hi Clancy,


That's a big question! I think it works ok as is, but I can see that as more members come on board, and people post more tunes then it won't work as well. You have to maintain the health of your ecosystem.

One suggestion I have is that you could limit the bandwidth that people have to store their attachments. You could set a 20 megabyte limit or some such number. I've gone back and deleted some attachments I posted a while back to help reduce space. When you exceed your quota, you could get a warning message telling you to go delete previous posts.

There are also loads of way you could divide up the recording booth into sections:

* Experience level : beginner, intermediate, accomplished;
* Type of music: rock, jazz, improvisation, country, classical, original, Kirk's lessons;
* Now this might be risky and unpopular, but you might let users restrict the files they view regularly to their selected "buddy list". In other words, I could pre-select whose tunes I wanted to see pop up (ie. Kirk, Rockerbob, lcjones, etc.) Kind of risks creating snooty private clubs, but it might serve some people well who don't spend as much time here but want to stay up to date with their fan favourites.

Those are a few ideas off the top of my head. Hope that helps get the discussions going!