Fooman,

I agree with you in that the sites should perform with most major browsers. Something I just encountered may be indicative of how backed up their resources are. I just tried updating (adding, really) an avatar to my profile an received an Internal Server Error (regardless of browser). 

I think they still desire to update the board, but in my opinion, I think they should grab the database, abandon the current custom forum, and simply import into a whole new platform, even if it's with the same company. Cakewalk should have never mucked with this one in the first place, if they weren't going to make it a priority. That tells me someone had too much time, and now they have no time. It is such in reality. I don't hold it against them, but I do recommend correct a mistake sooner than later.

musicroom


You can turn Chrome's tracking off.

Thanks Dave.


Mike

FWIW, I get the ol' Internal Server Error in FF a lot when using the quick reply at the bottom (just did). Never happens with the full editor.

I just re-read my comments below... and it's kinda random, so skip my post if you don't want to read a mini-rant about forum communities. I can only imagine how Cake see's this forum.
On one hand, you have this nice user-base that will watch your YouTube vids and tutorials the second they are put online... and on the other hand you have a lot of people that only poke their heads up to complain because everyone who is happy is using the software.
I am guilt of this because when Sonar is working well I'm too busy making music and don't feel the need to come on here and discuss how happy I am. Such is the nature of a user forum it seems.

Forum communities are fun. All free and not-mandatory, but people expect instant-replies from developers and constant upgrades to the forum software. If Cakewalk upgrades their forum software and has to pay Joe Developer to finagle the database into the new version's confines, that effort will show up in the prices we pay for the products they actually sell.

I've seen much worse communities in the music gear industry in terms of developer-user interactions. And as for how the forum actually works, Gearslutz is always ragged on when it comes to their search capabilities. They pay for their software and for the user it's free, yet people feel the need to complain... haha. Hell Gearslutz even has a free app for iPhone. I'd never complain about that place. I can't... cause it's free! If you don't like it, go elsewhere to talk muzak.

Fooman,
I just have to say that I've been on these forums pretty much daily since 2006 and this is the first time, to my knowledge, that anyone has ever used the word "finagle".  
Congratulations. 


I feel this is unfair and have decided to do my part and increase my usage of it here on these forums.
I think there are plenty opportunities to use this word and if necessary, one way or another, I will finagle it into more conversations.


Thanks for bringing back an 'old' new word of the day. 


Mike  

you are welcome. Finagling words into forum posts is fun.

I've been asking this for years. ASPPlayground.NET needs updating (scroll down this page and click on the link to see what I mean). Cakewalk never responds about this ever. All we get is people debating how good their browsers are (yes we understand it works for some browers!) when there is clearly a serious bug with other browsers. This can be proven because if you use the latest ASPPlayground.Net software (click link at bottom of the page to find a demo) it works. And besides there could be serious security risks if the software isn't updated periodically (i.e. hacked accounts etc).

sharke


The guy who owns Opera annoyed me when he started whining about how it wasn't fair that MS bundles IE with Windows. So I boycotted it. Petty? Yes. But there you have it. 

Think of how the creators of NetScape felt in the late 90's. I think they were the ones who raised the Anti-trust cases against Microsoft because of fairness. Now, Microsoft bundles a DVD decoder with Windows 7, and I'm sure those old codec providers complained about that. It's just the way it is, though. Apple implements Safari, but we still choose to use FF. I agree it's silly to complain that you can't compete with Microsoft in browsers if they bundle it. FF wins so many people over because of things they do that IE simply doesn't, like the [3D View] in "Inspect Element". That is WAY cool!

Browser incompatibilities in this forum are due to the web software package being used: 
 ASPPlayground.NET Forum Commercial Version 3.5

It's a canned solution with know compatibility issues. Last time I checked there were multiple complaints from subscribers about these issues on its forums.


Edit:
I just took a look at ASPPlaygrounds website and it looks like there are newer versions 3.9/4.0 that fix** the FireFox, Chrome, IE issues. (**statement based on thread topics posted on their support forum) 
 

This is the ONLY forum that doesn't function properly for me in Firefox. I go to quite a few and have no problems out of any of them. Only this one.

CakeAlexS


Er that's what I wrote in my last post and over a year ago.Did you not try the demo of the latest version. It works and has been working for several years on asp playground site. Still Cake refuses to upgrade. Anyway see my last post.

Sorry I didn't read all the posts. 
I agree with your comments.
 
I've been complaining about browser compatibility issues since the forum had it's last major upgrade (probably 3.5) back when.  I got so tired of it that now I rarely visit the cw forums (used to check them out daily). 


If the web admin doesn't have the chops to handle the upgrade - they should farm it out.  There are plenty of programmers out there who could handle this.

Personally, I wish Cakewalk would make the necessary changes so that I won't have to run two browsers. I prefer Chrome but for some reason the last update killed the audio in any video clip I play. I've tried the fixes I have found online but haven't found the cure for it. So I have to use Firefox to view videos and Chrome to post here. (Or not, for this post - with the resulting formatting problems.)

brconflict

sharke


The guy who owns Opera annoyed me when he started whining about how it wasn't fair that MS bundles IE with Windows. So I boycotted it. Petty? Yes. But there you have it. 

Think of how the creators of NetScape felt in the late 90's. I think they were the ones who raised the Anti-trust cases against Microsoft because of fairness. Now, Microsoft bundles a DVD decoder with Windows 7, and I'm sure those old codec providers complained about that. It's just the way it is, though. Apple implements Safari, but we still choose to use FF. I agree it's silly to complain that you can't compete with Microsoft in browsers if they bundle it. FF wins so many people over because of things they do that IE simply doesn't, like the [3D View] in "Inspect Element". That is WAY cool!

I didn't think there was anything "fair" about trying to force a private business into bundling someone else's product with theirs. The fair way was to come up with a browser that was better than IE, and Firefox certainly did that (although I think IE has caught up again in terms of quality). What bothered me most of all is that Microsoft was doing nothing at all to impinge upon anyone's freedom of choice. 

I've been asking this for years. ASPPlayground.NET needs updating (scroll down this page and click on the link to see what I mean). Cakewalk never responds about this ever. All we get is people debating how good their browsers are (yes we understand it works for some browers!) when there is clearly a serious bug with other browsers. This can be proven because if you use the latest ASPPlayground.Net software (click link at bottom of the page to find a demo) it works. And besides there could be serious security risks if the software isn't updated periodically (i.e. hacked accounts etc).

 
 
+1

Two threads now - are we revolting!

pphhhhhhffft.

I R Revolting.....