Referring to the big post on the last page:
1. I believe that Archive search change has more to do with the URL you were on when you started the search, than any sudden change on Archive's part.
2. 'LibriVox Management' in this case being... me sending a pull request, which
anyone can do in the way I explained, but which is not as simple as your Wordpress site. I've probably gone more than halfway to figuring it out in detail, so I may well finish. I wanted to learn, anyway...
3. You can believe what you want about Google, I want no part in it myself. There are alternatives, which can be discussed
if we even agree that we want tracking and are going to make use of it for... something.
4. Elijah has told you that no, that YouTube Channel, while operated by someone who has an account here, is
not, and never has been, official. I've explained in some detail why very few people volunteer to work on our code. No, we don't have a database admin, we have a sysadmin with a growing family and a full-time job. And me, and whoever else can both figure it out and put up with it.
Tricia has already told you that the 2013 site rewrite went over on budget and under on expected features... but, it also gave us the tools we've relied on for so long. A hired gun would want to throw out the whole pile and rewrite it, but there's no guarantee we'd get everything back. Likely even if we did, we'd trade the old quirks we're used to, for new ones we'd have to figure out all over again. I've only gotten started, and all of this would take
way more time than you seem to realize from doing
what we do.
Not understanding why things are complex does not make them any less so, and no matter how big a visitor count you either guesstimate or precisely track, LibriVox is a
volunteer project for readers which happens to have a site, not a
web site for audio books which are produced by volunteers.
So for your next questions:
A) Eventually, maybe. Someone has to learn how to do that safely. I'm assuming since you are not a web developer, you are not volunteering to apply any of this on the codebase I linked you to. If someone else
does, then I will certainly help test, because I'd like to see it happen.
B) Since many that didn't come from Gutenberg
may have come from Open Library, that would be another source for tags. Everything else would be either manual, or a grab-bag.
C) Me learning professional-level skills, probably, unless someone else jumps in with code (which I'll help test!). See point 4 above.
D) Hm. Interesting idea. I wouldn't want to put an
ebook search link in our
audiobook search page. We also have a Help page (did you know we had one of those?) here:
https://librivox.org/pages/help/#5
...but that seems like the more elementary instructions. I don't know where I'd put it - but not on the home page, and a brand new page should have more of a purpose than saying "you can search by LoC tag at Gutenberg, and then come back here for audio editions."
Edited to add:
Are LV audiobook records the same at the IA collection as at the Librivox site? Or would importing subject headings be separate problems/projects at the two sites?
They are separate. Some of the entries on our database (including the tags) are carried over when we first catalog a completed book. After that, any changes would need to be done on both sides.