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Open Mic: How secure should preset sharing be?

Love your site Tim. It's one of my main "daily visit" sites. Keep up the great work. I'm a longtime lurker, but I'm trying to become more active. Very excited for the new preset sharing feature.

I wasn't sure where else to post this, but I want to let you know that even though I have your site whitelisted on my adblocker, I still see a lot of the "Instead of blocking ads, become a patron!" messages. Is that normal or is there something else I need to do? Thanks

Open Mic: How secure should preset sharing be?

I'm surprised that there are actually that many apps that allow some kind of preset sharing on iOS. I assume when talking presets, we're mainly referring to synths right? Perhaps I just haven't used the preset sharing options that much but couldn't you just limit it to say the top 30 or so most popular synths at first. Then add more as time goes on or as users request them. Maybe even that is too much work, I don't know. I like all of the previous ideas. Yours is probably one of the last sites I personally would worry about downloading some kind of virus or malware anyway.

On another note, when this feature is implemented, it would be cool if you could somehow add a column or entry on the front-page similar to the Recent Comments section that would let users know that a new preset pack has been added and approved and for which synth. Kind of like a "Recent User Preset Packs" news ticker. It would just be cool to know what is new and available without having to dig through the different app pages. Maybe you already have something like this planned, just a suggestion

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Thanks for holding these contests. Now, no whammies, no whammies, no whammies!

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Love the picture! ;-)

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