I'm curious about Bandlab/Cakewalks's plans

Just jumping in here so you can hear it from the horse's mouth. :-)
 
The most important thing to note is that take-up of CbB has been far better than we expected. For the conspiracy theorists who maybe feel that it has underperformed - this isn't true. 
 
There are definitely a lot of things being worked on behind the scenes, as with all companies!  I personally feel it may be a little harsh to say that we've been secretive about things - if anything I'd like to think we've tried to be as transparent as possible on issues without saying things that could compromise marketing and roadmap plans or announcements for the future - if there is a level of transparency that anyone feels we are lacking versus other companies, I am very happy for anyone to share examples with me, take the feedback seriously and address it and see if we can improve how we communicate with our audience.
 
The forum migration is taking longer than expected but it's nearly there. Two things: 1) We want to make sure the authentication system is set up correctly as we are phasing out the old Cakewalk accounts and we want to make the transition as seamless for everyone as possible 2) We need to make sure we have a proper executable end of life strategy and plan for the current forum so that it doesn't become a big mess when it happens. There is still a strong amount of traffic and people who use it as a daily resource for information so we can't jeopardise that with a half-baked transition.
 
Marketing efforts have absolutely not started yet at all, CbB has performed so well on a purely word of mouth basis right now and through the growth of BandLab Assistant that we had to throw our expectations of user acquisition funnel performance plans out of the window and start again from scratch. I can only credit the strength and support of the community for this and we can't thank you guys enough!
 
With regards to the legacy website - there are also currently a lot of things tied into it that is not so obvious from the consumer angle - for example, our context-sensitive documentation, such that sunsetting it into a legacy website is not as straightforward as you might think. The long-term replacement for www.cakewalk.com is already up at https://www.bandlab.com/products/cakewalk but the update to the BandLab website takes a bit longer because of the UX considerations and current acquisition funnel that is affected by small amendments to the architecture of the landing page, and making sure it doesn't confuse our core users who are there purely for BandLab so again the refresh of that isn't necessary trivial.
 
Hope some of the inside info that I've shared above is helpful!

meng
 
There is still a strong amount of traffic and people who use it as a daily resource for information so we can't jeopardise that with a half-baked transition.
 

This is what I suspected from the beginning as a main factor for taking some time to do this correctly.
Hopefully the new site can look similar to this one with simple improvements, not a facelift.
I can almost guarantee everyone here will tell you they are perfectly happy with the flow and structure of this website the way it is, they are simply not happy with the little quirks that come along with it (search functions not working, comments disappearing,exc)
 
My hope is that this new site remains similar to the way this one already is with only added features and fixes.
Kind of like what your doing to CbB.

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My hope is that this new site remains similar to the way this one already is with only added features and fixes.
Kind of like what your doing to CbB.

^This.
 
Please don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater and turn the new forum into an unstructured Facebook wannabe look-alike. A forum that allows threads like this is something I personally would never come back to.

The BL example you showed is not a forum! There are lots of forum software out there that can be installed and setup on the server and integrated with other databases and existing systems. Because of that BL are unlikely to develop their own as it's like reinventing the wheel and is a lot of work - trust me I've done it. Pretty much all available forum software display threads similar to this forum so don't worry. 

I don’t think I ever said that the Cakewalk on the Lab! social media site is a forum. I said that I wouldn’t want to see the current forum turn into something like that. Moderated or not. Stranger things have happened.