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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
Hello everyone, I just wanted to let you know that I’m signing up a bunch of folks from Cakewalk Forums today. Be sure to keep letting people know about this community, that’s how we grow. It looks like public registration will begin next week. Please let others know that they can be registered for the site by sending an email to lin…Read More
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@Kirean If someone told you this stuff and you didn’t know it first hand, it would be hard to believe. And still BandLab refuses to fix the more than a dozen times they had data breaches and exposed my real name on their site. Mark them down as incredibly unprofessional.
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I’m not well-versed in nor really who who is who behind the scenes, but I guess the ban hammer might have come from upstairs. Yet all my years ‘online’ and going through forums/message boards in all kinds of fields, I really haven’t seen a platform ban all mentions to competitors (DAWs in this case) like that. Then again, being new to music…Read More
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peter posted in the group Open Mic (Open Discussion)
I wanted to take some time out to show my appreciation and acknowledge some of the members of the community who have pitched in and epitomized the values I had envisioned for this community, a place committed to being the friendliest, most helpful and welcoming community of its kind.
When my days at Cakewalk Forum came to an end, I was soon…Read More
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@satya It feels great to have you as a part of this.
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doug posted a new activity comment
@bluescat, no worries. @peter has already reached out and I have offered to find some icons that might work. I had taken Peter’s comment that the site was feature complete to mean that green and gray exclaimation points were what was going to be used to identify read/unread messages. That was not his intent at all.
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peter posted in the group Early Adopters
I’ve gotten feedback from several members that all four of the read / unread systems we’ve used in the forums either haven’t worked properly for at least some users or it simply wasn’t intuitive enough. After making some posts about it, I haven’t received any feedback from anyone saying they liked it, so I took it that it was best to look for…Read More
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Seeing your comment made my day! Thanks for sharing your candid feedback.
@patrickwichrowski made an excellent observation — that the contrast between the two images isn’t ideal and I think he’s right. So, I’m going to be replacing those with something that has more contrast. If you can think of any sites where you’ve seen images to represent…Read More
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On the lighter side, I did realize that when I tagged Release in the poll that I probably unintentionally killed any possibility to see anyone who was going to vote “it’s alright” or “I don’t really like it” from voting as they’re like — um, no, Peter can see my vote and he’ll tag me next! Sorry folks, I’ll try to wait a bit longer next time.…Read More
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I liked the system with the blue stripe for unread posts. It made it very obvious what was read and unread. Is that the one people found unintuitive? Being slightly colour blind I can’t really distringuish between the green and the gray of the current system. Maybe I just got used to it but I really liked the system the old forum had of having a…Read More
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@blackjackschellac It make take several days, but the plugin allows me to upload my own graphic, so in the next several days I’ll replace it and I’m very interested in hearing or seeing screenshots of forums where you think the icons they use are highly intuitive.
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I am not part of many forums, so I can’t really suggest any graphics unfortunatly. I am part of this forum and cakewalk’s and visit other site’s when searching for specific help. But I suggest keeping it simple. The most important thing is visibility. The Cakewalk forum has a simple dot in front of the title when unread that disappears when read.…Read More
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Yes, when it is small details are difficult to see at a glance which is what we want for this. I have done some looking on the internet and from what I saw, I believe you could use the activity icon you already have. 3 dots in it when it is unread and a checkmark when it is read. I also realised, from some of the comments I saw, is that we must be…Read More
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I’m pretty sure it.was either the thread for people to report fixes or a thread in the Earky Adopters Group. I realize that sometimes the issues are that folks don’t understand how to use something. I wish I remembered which one had the stripes so I could note it. I take it you like that better than the one we’re using now?
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The current system is the first one where I’ve had positive feedback. But if MOST people agree they want a prior system — and because I’ve installed, I think, a total of 4 different systems, I can’t recall which one had the blue bars, but I’d replace this one if a bunch of members can agree to it. Feel free to do a poll just like I did below –…Read More
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@peter I am not against the current system. Just used different icons for read/unread to help us poor color challenged folk.
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@doug You must have missed the discussion, but I’m going to create new icons that are specifically considering those who are color blind. I have a long history of managing / leading digital marketing, including corporate websites at three major global brands. While it was EXTREMELY unpopular among the next level up (I’ll try not get sued), I…Read More
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@peter I did not miss the discussion on accomodating colour blind people. Brian tagged me and asked if I did not see the exclaimation marks showing read and unread messages. I responded saying I saw the exclaimation marks but not the difference between green and gray. Then I was confused by your statement about the forum being functionally…Read More
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@peter, I have responded to your DM with more discussion on this topic.
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@doug By functionally complete I only meant that I was finished adding new features for version one. I definitely 100% support anything I can do (within the constraints of my budget) to make the site more accessible. There’s no end date for that. That is about human beings. No, I absolutely planned on getting this fixed as soon as it was pointed…Read More
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