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[Peter-IK]

Happy to help.  And I never did respond to Peter #1’s post and I ought to because I do understand that people can be frustrated and things can get heated and I’m honestly no stranger to it as I’ve been on forums as IK’s rep for an insane number of years (yes I chose that wording wisely, it is pretty accurate).  I’m not “the victim” though, or anything like that, I just mean it all comes with the territory and forums get a bit of a reputation for sometimes having some quite abrasive exchanges and it puts forum admins/mods in an uncomfortable situation and even company reps (again, I’m no victim, this is just how it is) can’t always be as blunt or even transparent as they may want to be.  I think that’s about how much I can say about that, I’m not hiding anything but it isn’t like I can go spilling secrets or opening floodgates of “hey Peter just gave thousands of dollars of free software away on his favorite forums!” even though I more than kind of want to sometimes.  Side note – I can equate this to how similarly challenging it can be to be a parent, or even a sibling.  You do what you can, you try to help in every way you are able to within the confines of the conditions of whatever role you are in.

Anyway, enough of that ramble – speaking of forums, I really wanted to thank Peter #1 (yes, that’s what I’m calling you here from now on, but only HERE 😉 ) not for the message above but for this forum in general.  I’ve seen MANY forums, even some right from the beginning, and I know it is challenging to start and grow a forum like this.  The part about me possibly being done here was not at all accurate, thankfully, so Peter #1 can be wrong but in the right ways.  I want to see this forum flourish, sincerely.  Not as Peter from IK but as Peter X (whatever number I am – go ahead and say #2, I was trying to avoid that for obvious reasons) who has enjoyed music forums forever including having thousands of posts on one of the oldest ones around before even thinking about working for IK or any vendor that might participate there.  I’ve been both helpful and grumpy during that time (and hey, maybe during this vendor-specific time but shhhhh I know it and I’m human and trying to improve too, folks).

I bear no ill will toward anybody here and I will gladly go to bat as I have always and hopefully be a customer-centric influence at IK, and maybe it is good to have someone from a company that’s not just someone paid to hit some forums and such.  I love seeing requests and getting ideas for things that I can take credit for – kidding, more like things I can link to to show others – and trying to help get issues resolved.  Like I’ve said, sometimes I can even help with those directly but if I can’t I can help get things escalated if necessary.  I know I’ve enjoyed participating in non-IK threads on forums before and I absolutely will and will continue to whenever time permits.  I’m frequently on forums outside of normal business hours too so I must enjoy it, and I should try harder to get more in tune with the social aspects here too because that’s part of the huge potential here.

TL;DR – This forum has major potential, it’s pretty golden now and will continue to have typical growing pains like any other.  But it is more than a forum – more than a community, even, both in technical scope and conceptually.  I’m not “done” and I hope nobody else is.  I’ll be here even without representing IK, and I hope to devote more time to exploring more than a portion of it in depth and remain proud to be here.

I represent IK Multimedia so I will post official things. I also may just post random things as a real human being because I also represent one of those. I will try to be clear when I'm just speaking as Peter, instead of "Peter from IK".

I make no promises to be 100% accurate in doing so, though. 🙂

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