Sonar features and ideas forum (more support please)

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Kamikaze
I would like to see more involvement from cake in that area of the forum, in fact in the forum in general. I've made a number of threads in that area and supported a number of ideas, but I lack a real belief it has any real meaning beyond a way to express some ideas.

I disagree - I got excellent help a couple of times.
Some feedback made help extended on an issue etc.
I think it's scanned properly - Cake is watching, kind of.
 
But just as well as features I feel are vital get no votes, and couple have - taste and needs are different for each of us.
 
I think it was Noel, or Seth that at a time said - they are not mindreaders, we need to post about bugs and ideas.
 
Agree with OP that Features n Ideas  needs more attention from us users...

Some of the many enhancements requested for the Cakewalk Control Center in the features and Ideas forum are now slated for the upcoming update to C3.
 
So don't discount the possibility of contributing.
 
The Hosts speak for themselves not Cakewalk in terms of the ideas. If they don't like it that's fine but it's not up to them. If you think the idea has merit keep lobbying for support and get votes. 

cowboydan
 
 I am trying to figure out which "Hosts"are qualified to weed out the ideas that are good and those that are not.

Don't you know Dan, here is a list for you :

Doktor Avalanche
I disagree that cakewalk should interact with feature requests, they should avoid it like the plague! cakewalk can read they don't have to interact with feature requests. All they need to do is count the votes.

Their time is best spent in problem reports forum if anywhere IMHO, and unfortunately we hardly see them there. And we still get problem reports withdrawn without any comment.

I agree with you when you use the word "Cakewalk" in place of "Hosts". What I dont agree on is when a host thinks he/she should be the one to weed out bad ideas from the good ones and to attack the bad ideas. IMHO, Hosts are people too, But they are not all knowing when it comes to features and ideas. That should be left to Cakewalk to decide .

If a host is moving your post around or freezing a thread or something.. for no good reason.. then yup I get it. But if you are saying hosts shouldn't be able to comment ... Of course they should. They are paying customers as well.

I wish hosts would merge threads down there more, as every time somebody posts a similar thread that waters down somebody else's vote. They only seem to merge my threads for some reason.

With so many hosts available I don't see much work going on. If they aren't able to perform host duties effectively they should give it up and let somebody else have a go.

Take an example from me.

Kamikaze
Without trawling through pages, their little way to know if a idea has already be posted. INcreases the chances of duplicates. It's a messy set up really, that need a different structure.

Well hosts are supposed to be looking after these forums.

Doktor Avalanche
If a host is moving your post around or freezing a thread or something.. for no good reason.. then yup I get it. But if you are saying hosts shouldn't be able to comment ... Of course they should. They are paying customers as well.

I wish hosts would merge threads down there more, as every time somebody posts a similar thread that waters down somebody else's vote. They only seem to merge my threads for some reason.

With so many hosts available I don't see much work going on. If they aren't able to perform host duties effectively they should give it up and let somebody else have a go.

Take an example from me.

I've posted requests inside FR threads for merges that have been honored - pretty quickly too.
 
I wish people wouldn't get so riled up that they want to throw all of the hosts out with the bath water.
 
I would like to see FRs outside of the forum at some point.  The top 20 could be cleaned up, made into something closer to a set of requirements, then ranked by the user community.
 
Clearly defining the FRs is really important, IMO.  It's very easy for a general idea to evolve into something completely different (in the details) during implementation.  There's a reason business analysts are in high demand.  Good ones are anyway.
 

I guess this would depend on other factors.  A popular FR that would cost 6,000 hours of development time would probably have less of chance than a collection of features that each have 1/10 the popularity, but only require 10 hours in aggregate to implement.
 
OTOH, if we were all willing to continue our memberships without regard for pricing, they would probably be willing to implement anything that reached the top of the heap.

I find whiney hijacking of threads to complain about volunteers I've always found to be quite helpful and considerate to be much more disturbing when visiting threads... I came here to see what the issue is and had to wad thru a bunch of crap...Furthermore, they are members/users just like us and are entitled to have opinions.  If you believe in your idea, defend it rather than whine and run... Yoda would never do that!  Nor a real cowboy!
 
Just my 2 cents.
 
I think the suggestions forum is fantastic and I am quite sure the bakers are reflecting on our thoughts and ideas.  They most likely had a timeline of improvements already established and while many of the suggestions are excellent, we are totally ignorant of their workload and what's in the pipeline.  I say give it a year and then reflect.  bug fixes have been numerous and several nice improvements have arrived.  
 
Enjoy it and appreciate the steady flow... I bet a number of our suggestions are being considered.

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I too think more people should spend a bit of time voting and commenting on the suggestions... If we have 60 people thumbs upping an idea that's way more impressive.  Especially if it's my idea of toggling "show only tracks with data" in the mixer... yep... I need a couple hundred people voting that one up... I get frustrated with big templates with big empties...The hiding is laborious and just a click away if.... if.... YOU VOTED!
 
So, go vote... it's way cheaper than the "Deals" forum

I am not yet qualified to vote. I'm still learning, and just taking it all in....