Wetlook World Forum

It's not an issue of funding. The problem is simply that right now, there's only one clip contributor and we're not replacing the clips we use up. Our clips supply is going to run dry (boom boom)

If we are able to find a fresh supply of clips, there would be no problems. It may well be that the WAMbank has killed off the site, as I imagine people are contributing clips there instead. I don't know, this is mere speculation. I don't know if there's any sense in transferring all the clips to the WAMbank -- someone has to verify whether each of nearly 1600 clips already exists on the WAMbank, compare clip frame dimensions, play time and scene quality, swap out poor clips with better ones and add clips that are new, and that would be even more tedious than my idea of putting keywords on all the clips on all the clips on the WIR site. Note that there are enough unidentified clips on WIR's site to make this especially tricky.

I've spoken with the WAMbank's owner in depth about the future of the WIR site in the past, at the point where I thought we would have enough contributors to keep the site going forever. But it seems that at the time of Steve's death, most contributors had long since gone. Steve never mentioned this -- all was going fine, I believed. The contributors must all be well aware of the situation, so how come all but JH have never spoken to me about the site? I don't know whether the WAMbank team would be happy to take over, and I have no idea how lifetime memberships (not a sensible idea, we all realise!) would be affected, and how people would react to this.

At the very least, I intend to keep posting clips until we run out. But I'm still curious to hear everyone's ideas ... keep them coming.