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Your proposal mentions open-sourcing, but it's not clear on the timeline. Will you immediately be open-sourcing your software, or is that planned for some later time during the proposal period (and if so, why the delay)? I'm asking as this is a key issue for my vote.

We have opensourced Aureal, You can check the git repository here:
https://github.com/thewall4095/aureal_web_frontend

There are multiple reasons for this:

  • The code needs to be refactored with proper standard
  • There are some half-baked features that we plan to complete before open-sourcing.
  • Untill a month back Aureal is build by 2 developer team. Before open-sourcing we would need sometime to refactor code so that its convenient for collaborators.
  • The open-sourcing part will start exactly by the start of 4th month.
  • We plan to complete it before the proposal period ends.

Open-sourcing of code is not a beauty contest. And, IMO, there's no need for the code to be "convenient for collaborators" before open-sourcing.

The main thing that open-sourcing does is make it possible for others to pick up the project if you disappear, even if that is not easy. You can release it now, but with a clear statement that the code is currently not in a clean state, and ask for contributors to wait till you finish the cleanup before they make changes. I'm sure everyone will respect that request (truth be told, it's not even easy for most opensource projects to attract new developers).

Absolute pleasure! I hope this incredible projects gets funded! 😁

we’re trying to make this the best podcasting app,

Yessssss! Even if it was 1/10th as fantastic as anchor.fm, I would be over the moon!

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Huge potential here, voted. Good luck!

Hi, how exactly do sound files get added to the hive blockchain? Or is Aureal simply benefitting from the tokenization and uncensorable communities/accounts?

We have our own podcast hosting service(using IPFS), but currently we sticked with using the audio links from onboarded podcasts because 1. The hosting service still needs some efforts to work seamlessly 2. Onboarding a podcaster with condition of him using a new hosting service is bit more difficult than simply enabling Aureal through links of his current hosting provider. Also we launching our hosting service with the new feature we are working on that which enables users to host audio sessions and the audio files gets stored on IPFS.

The reason for going with this process is the fact that the platform and Hive Ecosystem in general should not scare any non-hive user. So we constantly emphasise on making the transition as seamless as possible. Once they are comfortable, they stay here in the open decentralised world.

@theycallmedan with 3 speak has something for hosting in the line of video content. It should work for audio too, if i understand all right.

So it would be more decentralized and more connected to hive.

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I see you are trying to get in front of this mess.
Im glad you have your account back.