Club Mania

Been requested before. I for one requested a Themes Subfolder.

This forum will get replaced at some point in the future, so is both unlikely to happen and not worth worrying about. I simply shifted to the full version so I could mark that forum as read.

A lost opportunity of the past has been to create a wiki that could have been concise and complete. Over the years many have posted the same things repeatedly in a forum without a search engine, so a lot of that tribal knowledge will be lost as well. Repeating the same things becomes a waste of time.

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Would like to know what this forum’s actual status is. Are people still running it or are all of us drifting in limbo until someone pulls the plug?

I got no illusion or hope that anything will change here. Didn’t happen when Sonar was a viable product, and will not happen now in the twilight days of you and me being able to communicate here..
 
Bit’s argument about a better search engine may be a fix, but the stuff is still scattered to hell and back.
 
My old school OCD focus is still on another section of the forum. Call it whatever to categorize and establish sticky sub sections to cover major developers. Would in a real world nominate Zo as a moderator to add new sections as needed. Will never happen, but only a discussion on how to pull it off right if we had any choice.
 
Can’t remember where the hell it was, but the HeadCase guys were instrumental in starting a web focus on specific guitar sims by the author. Highly successful with washed in the blood participation. You had a question, dialed in to the respective forum and some guru fixed you quick.
 
My opinion only, but these Cakewalk forums are dead going forward. Nobody can register, and what we see is what we gets. Who knows how long things will last here. Best scenario to just let us die off from old age naturally. Less left to complain or ask for change. Sure cure.
 
John

Bash , i think John was labeling the forum as dead when it come to maintenance and dev , not about people makng it alve , witch is basically why i love this place.
 
He's totally right about the forum , even when Cake was hearthy , it wasn't on the level of actual standard 
The cakewalk alternatve forums (beyond my daw ect) were a great idea , and better layout out , i think f they don't want to handle this they should let bapu or others handle it 

Before I retired one of roles was managing an internal tech support "help desk" and knowledge management for a technical domain in a large international corporation.  The key to core knowledge management system was classification and verification, this made searching and browsing very easy. Verification and a user feedback system meant the content was reliable and frequently reviewed.
 
We also had builtin boards which did not have classification or verification, this is the case on a forum such as this. We could harvest the best from the builtin boards and convert into content for the the KM system. This requires a work and staff allocated to the task.
 
To some extent the chaos inherent in forums and bulletin boards is their strength, people are more open in such an environment. The down side is chaos,  like here where the sub-forum system is often bypassed and posts end up in the "wrong" sub-forum. If a moderator moves a post people often get upset.
 
Introducing classifications may help in finding information but the required manpower and costs would be prohibitive.
 
I think the the introduction of more sub-forums seems like a good idea but in practice it would only be effective if strictly moderated, which in turn would discourage participation. Catch 22.