John Hardly said:

Another plus/minus -- you don't need to have a stapler close to your Ctrl button to hold it down so you have two hands to play your guitar!

John, you're way out of date! Haven't had to hold down the CTRL key for a LONG time! I think it's maybe a year and half, or even longer.

The current version is at least second generation past CTRL-hold-down. At first it was a matter of clicking on the microphone icon, and it would "stick"; when you were through you'd click again, or hit the CTRL. The current version has an icon at the bottom of the window with a padlock on it. When not on mike, it's green, and the hasp is out of the lock; click when you assume the mike, and it's sort of orangish, and the padlock is closed. To free the mike, either click again on the icon or hit the CTRL. It's green again, and you're off mike.

It must be a long time since you were on Paltalk, John!

Dave Oesterreich