Just want to leave this request, please remember add voice ability to let us enhance and enrich our community communication... Today we don't have to limit us only as typing forum 

Voice recording would be a nice feature for my community too... 

i'm running a poems community. In addition to texts that are written, it would be a good extension if users can also publish the poem they have read.

Yes, with forums generally waning in popularity, this would represent a chance to actually modernize.

By adding such a possibility, you a priori kill the forum in the understanding for which it is intended.

This is not WhatsAPP or Discord, this is the Message Board, which was originally conceived like this.

It's the same as buying a motorcycle in order to convert it into a car... An idiotic solution.

 

I thought uploading and playing audio files was implemented in one of the latest releases? Simply record the spoken word version of a poem with a smartphone and upload it as attachment to the posts?

That's the logical way of doing it - but then you get to the "make it easier" element of just clicking a button on the site, having it begin the audio/video recording functionality on the device, and then when the recording finishes the file is automatically uploaded to the content.

I actually did a POC of this a few months ago as a potential add-on to my HTML5 player but I decided not to proceed with it further because I could see that it would be a pain in the behind to provide support for it.

Personally, I find that audio messages on a forum are a bit unnatural and also cause some difficulties:

• Cumulative file size
• Specific moderation 
• Lack of referencing.

But it can be something interesting, for example on role playing games 🙂