{"id":1267,"date":"2020-12-28T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2020-12-21T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T08:48:23","slug":"community-update-december-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.freesound.org\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"Community update December 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to a new community update post! We just realised that we didn&#8217;t do any community update posts for the last year \ud83d\ude41 However, we&#8217;ve had some activity in the blog through the <em>guest blog posts<\/em> (and we&#8217;d like to give thanks to the authors!). And well, what a year 2020 has been! Surely not the best of all times. In any case, time has come for a new update about how things are going in the Freesound world. Here is a summary of the things we&#8217;ve been working on during the last months and some plans for 2021:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\" id=\"block-b234b4e0-b655-4c5d-bffd-ef2193e47e7c\"><li><strong>Bug fixes, general maintenance and software updates<\/strong>: as usual, lots of work that happen without any glory but that are necessary to keep Freesound up and running. <\/li><li><strong>New infrastructure<\/strong>: some of you will have noticed that the servers have been misbehaving a little recently, making the upload of large files quite difficult and generating some general slowdowns. The fact is that Freesound continues to grow and our current infrastructure is not easily scalable. In 2021 we&#8217;ll start to move Freesound to a new infrastructure that should allow us to scale much better and hopefully get rid of the performance problems we&#8217;ve been having this year.<\/li><li><strong>New frontend<\/strong>: We&#8217;ve slowly been working on the new interface, but now we have a developer working exclusively on the implementation of the new frontend and we&#8217;re finally advancing at a good speed. If we are able to keep working at the same speed, I think it is safe to say that we can expect the new frontend to be finished during the first half of 2021 \ud83d\ude42 <\/li><li><strong>New features<\/strong>: we&#8217;re also working on new features, and have so many ideas in mind! Together with the new interface, we expect to release a new feature that will perform automatic clustering of search results based on sound similarity. This will provide an alternative facet with which to explore search results and find the sound you&#8217;re looking for (maybe <em>that<\/em> other sound that you were not really looking for but sounds similar and is actually amazing!)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to all of the above, we would like to announce that <strong>Freesound has been awarded a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grantfortheweb.org\">Grant for the Web<\/a><\/strong> award which will provide us with some funds to explore ideas related to a Freesound-sister project that we call <em>Freesound Licensing. <\/em>The idea of Freesound Licensing is to provide a service to Freesound uploaders that will allow them to re-license the sounds to 3rd parties that need to use the sounds under terms not allowed by the original Creative Commons licenses. The goal is to provide a solution to the typical problem of <em>someone<\/em> wanting to use a CC-BY-NC sound from Freesound in a commercial project. Freesound Licensing will mediate between that <em>someone<\/em> and the sound author to generate a new license in exchange for a payment. This will benefit both uploaders and downloaders, but also, by keeping a small share of the license payments, Freesound Licensing will contribute to the sustainability of Freesound. More news regarding this project will come during 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And that&#8217;s it for now, happy new year to everyone! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the Freesound Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, Welcome to a new community update post! 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