Feature Requests and Bug Reports

CCC is an amazing site, but recently over the past 1-2 years, its been flooded by fraudulent creators. They make projects daily looking for character impersonations (Leo the lizard, Patrick from Spongebob etc) and then silently close the projects just to make more and harvest more copyright free auditions, presumably to feed into their AI learning systems and create hybrid voices that belong to no one legally. 2 separate times now these people have created fake "Make A Wish" projects (one's on the front page right now) looking to help out some made up child. "Birthday messages for Alex!" etc, offering up 500 bucks or what have you. It's clearly too good to be true nonsense, but everyone wants to help out kids, so they audition without thinking. Of course these project creators have no actual ties to the organization - no official socials advertise them and they have no contact info listed to confirm their legitimacy whatsoever - so of course they should be deleted promptly - or at least, you'd think they would be, but we understand that the mod team is busy. To help this along, if we could flag potentially fraudulent projects for moderator review, which would display a warning on said project until a mod can check it out, it would be a huge help. All we've been able to do is email the mod team and report the user themselves, but not before they've harvested plenty of unwitting actors, writers and artists' hard work. Obviously, this is a system that could be abused, so it would require diligence on behalf of the mod team to make sure things are on the up and up and that bad actors (turn of phrase) are not flagging things they have some personal beef with.

This one has been super frustrating honestly, especially when you are tracking a project you submitted for. On numerous occasions now, I'll see a date and time but the "about x time" is never correct. In fact, one project tonight stated it was closed in 45 minutes HOURS before the actual listed date and time. I've included an example screenshot below. (At the time the screenshot was taken, it was about 6:50 pm MDT, so definitely not 22 hours.)

I often see roles that pay nothing getting lumped in with paid roles on the website, I even get emails advertising them. Can they please be removed?

On mobile especially it's so buggy and I can't even send a chat message without it clogging my screen. EVERY TIME I log in there's "Someone just viewed your profile" like FIVE TIMES in a row. Why is there no way to get rid of it?? I highly doubt it's even accurate considering "views" are probably from people who are simply reviewing auditions. I'm pretty sure Buford himself has bragged about it as a sales tactic and honestly it feels really scummy. I've seen and heard people complaining about it but I don't think Buford has gotten the message, so I really hopes this reaches him. Just - I don't know, move the pop-up? Don't make it last so long? Make it so that it doesn't last forever on the screen? Enable "don't show these types of notifications anymore"? Please?

It’d be nice if you could include your location / time zone on your profile, as not all VAs on CCC are from the US.

Something I hear from applicants is how they'll typically apply to a role, and then never hear anything else about the role, even after someone has been chosen and the role has been closed. In order to give some closure and peace of mind, it seems it would be helpful if a message was sent to people who had applied to a role, informing them that the role was filled. Then they don't need to keep guessing/hoping/wondering if they'll get the job.

I've been noticing that when I sort for active jobs, some are listed as being open, but when I click on them, they are very much closed. It is sad, pls fix.

Hi theres quite a few projects that claim to be original but aren't. I looked for a report button but there was none that i could see. This is a worry, as if a project were to be fraudulent, spammy, or in any other way inappropriate or harmful there should be an easy way to report these. In the case of projects that claim to be original but aren't that's obviously less of a worry than actual scams etc, but even in those cases I would hope that the project creator would be notified and that the projects category would be changed. If a project claims to be original, and a voice actor applies for it not realizing that it's a fan role then at best it would waste a significant amount of the voice actor's time auditioning and recording for the role, but at worst it may harm the voice actor's career. Whereas if they knew ahead of time that the project was not from the original creators then they either wouldn't apply or would at least use a pseudonym so as to not damage their career.

Maybe a weird idea, but I think it’d be a cool/encouraging feature to allow casting directors to privately note the “finalists” for a role with a lot of auditions. For example, I think it’d be fun if the top three people in a role with 100 auditions or something got a private notification or email like, “Hey! You didn’t get this one, but when the casting director was narrowing it down, you were one of the top X picks, great job, you rock!” In my mind, if someone doesn’t want to give or receive emails or notifications like that they’d be able to opt out, but I think for some people it’d be nice to know they did well and were a serious contender in a competitive audition

When searching projects, there should be an option to only show projects that have open roles. Additionally, on the project search page, there should be an indicator next to each role saying whether it's open or closed.