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Thanks all for the great input! ?Our plan has been to observe what works/what doesn't and make improvements accordingly.
This site's main purpose is to provide a clean, peer-to-peer support community for CbB software. At the onset, we chose to err on the side of minimal, leveraging innate site capabilities like tags, Q&A, polls, quality search and activity features to round out a full experience without needing to rehash of the old forum structure. We didn't want to start from a bloated state, only to decruft later.
WRT to collapsing the Q&A and main discussion forums - the Q&A forum is the tool of choice for getting a distilled answer with minimal peripheral discussion, due to the voting and best choice features. In short, if you're looking for a "single best answer" to a specific question, your question is probably well-bounded and a good candidate for the Q&A forum. The Q&A forum is succinct and can be skimmed very easily, unlike traditional discussion forums, where topics can be open-ended and may tend toward more subjective matters. In reading through the topics and posts in Q&A and CbB forums respectively, having both seems to be making sense.
A few other things are resounding here - improvements to forum naming/usage direction, requests for some of the old forum sections, like hardware, software and techniques - all of which are under consideration. WRT the latter, I propose we try using the Coffeehouse as a go-to for _anything_ 3rd party or technique related, keying topics with use tags. Incidentally the Songs forum is getting really good traction, techniques for a given track can be discussed and tagged there, too. A reality of any discussion forum is that regardless of forum name or topic, discussions can drift, so a strict structure provides no guarantee of content accuracy, whereas tags can really help you zero in on areas of interest right away. Tags are super powerful! ⚡
Thanks for the ongoing discussion, it's a great way to help evolve these forums the right way!
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We'll provide a heads up in advance of final date.
1 hour ago, Tobias said:but then again what difference would knowing that make really?
None
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Stay tuned, we'll come up with a way to conveniently transfer post counts from the old forum for those who'd like to do so.
Note however that post counts, transferred or otherwise, won't affect reputation points. Only reactions can increase or decrease reputation points. So be sure to give a positive reaction if you find someone's post helpful! ?
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1 hour ago, BRainbow said:
Would you please consider reverting the forum to all black text or possibly to a darker orange with more contrast.
Hi Bill, thanks for letting us know. We can provide a theme to help address that before long.
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Happy holidays all!
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2 hours ago, timboalogo said:
maybe there's a mod to move this question.
Done - thanks!
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@Bill Schreiber et al - please go into your Account Settings and try again. Should be able to change it now. ?
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4 hours ago, chamlin said:
when I go to my avatar menu and choose account settings, I can't seem to adjust / change my display name. Email, yes, but display name no. Help?
Would I correct in presuming your display name, chamlin, is now as you intend it?
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On 12/21/2018 at 7:59 PM, valentine said:
Not sure where to ask this... did BandLab inherit the other Cakewalk applications- in particular Z3TA+ 2 and Rapture Pro? If so will they be modernised and re-released?
All Cakewalk technology assets were acquired, including the instruments. Can't provide specifics at this time, but we haven't forgotten about instruments and effects.
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48 minutes ago, Phil Balliet said:
Not sure how to embed the video, anyone who can point me in the right direction?
I just past the link - either from the address bar/:
...or the share link YT provides:
Tip: Don't type 'return' immediately after pasting the link. Just paste, wait 1 second, and it should appear. ?
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Great request! Different forum types have different capabilities. Voting isn't accessible in a standard forum type, but perhaps we can consider adding a Q&A sub-forum to this one.
In the meantime, I think using Polls in this forum would be an awesome way to get feedback on specific ideas.
Also the sorting feature can be useful, such as sorting this forum by Most Replies:
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@jimfogle why yes, you can do that
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On 12/21/2018 at 6:43 PM, Bapu said:
The bummer is the limitations on the sig. That is so 1980s.
@Bapu what limitations do you mean specifically?
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Hmm, your link works for me. I'll look into it...
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Unread Content is a really useful forum feature if you haven't discovered it yet (it's a pretty inconspicuous button). It allows you to sort different types of activity: followed posts, topics you created, etc.
Click here:
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4 minutes ago, Lord Tim said:
Related to this though, is there any forum specific code for embedding YouTube or other hosted content?
Certain links should embed automatically, YouTube being one of them. You’ll know right away if it works, as it will embed in the body of your post immediately upon paste, before you submit.
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There’s a 24 hour grace period from launch where anything goes. ?
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38 minutes ago, Grem said:
Like this? : )
Nailed it! ?
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2 hours ago, Tobias said:
They intentionally left it out to save us from spending money on crap we don't need, and focus on the music. Maybe
?Consider it an intervention!
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5 minutes ago, chris.r said:
Sorry, couldn't find a better place to ask this question: Have we got a forum's dark theme?
Not yet... great question!?
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6 minutes ago, Larry Jones said:
Jesse - I asked this elsewhere, but now I can't find it: What about signatures? They can be darned helpful, and I don't see a way to add them to my profile.
By direct link: https://discuss.cakewalk.com/index.php?/settings/signature/
By navigation:
1. In the user menu, click Account Settings
2. Then in Settings, click Signature
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10 minutes ago, Larry Jones said:
Out of curiosity I clicked the "Hide" button on my comment that you responded to. I see that the comment has completely disappeared, with no way to get it back or even see it. Is this the way it's supposed to work?
We're still getting our sea legs here. ?Staffers and Admins can see hidden posts, but Noel probably didn't notice the state. Anyway I don't think we need the hide feature, just seems confusing so I'll suppress it for now.
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35 minutes ago, Grem said:
I would like to use my old forum name of Grem. But when I go to Account Settings, I see "Display Name" but I see no way of changing it. Help!!
Looks like you got it!
What happened to the old Cakewalk forum?
in Frequently Asked Questions
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Hiya folks - less-vague freeze date for the old forums:
Wed, Jan 16, 2019
Edit: Adding emojis to convey sense of warmth and security
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