Is forum participation down?

I think  the more we know, the less we ask. However there is always student waiting to ask a question.
 
 

I think that with a new version being released every year or so with completely new guis and features being abandoned while introducing new ones or moving the features elsewhere contributed to more activity. Now that it seems we have settled in to a consistent core program, there is less confusion and thus less activity here. I have never been much of a media guy just to get on forums just to chat anyway. If I see a question that I can lend a hand with, I will jump in from time to time.
At the same time, I hope that less activity here means people are actually working on new projects which means more great music being produced by Cake products!!!!

My thoughts....
 
1) Sonar is better...issues get resolved much, much faster because of the new delivery system.
2) Monthly updates keep people more busy
3) The Forum is divided up with the Coffee House and other areas, so if you don't go to those areas you see less activity
 
This still is the best place to go for info.  Test it out.  Ask a question and see how many good answers you will get.

Welcome back, space! 
 
The user base continues to grow, but I have noticed that many of the old-timers don't drop in as often as they used to. I include myself in that group. Even though I still check in every day, I don't post with the same frequency as I did a decade ago.
 
Part of it is that SONAR has become largely problem-free. Part of it is that for us greybeards the same perennial questions have become tedious to re-hash. I am never going to explain the sampling theorem to another YouTube-educated nitwit. Fortunately there are others here, including many helpful newcomers, to take up the slack.

Yes, the forum is not as much fun as it used to be. Things are squashed rather quickly, for the good, I suppose...

I've noticed the middle of the week and late at night (west coast N. America) is generally less lively these days.
The thread subjects are far more varied, perhaps even more obscure. Many threads are started and the OP never returns. It's just a kinder gentler forum with way less *!#% disturbers than 4 years ago. My opinion is that the moderators have done a good job keeping things on target, though, I miss Alex, before he got barred, he was a lot of fun.

space_cowboy
Bitflipper and John - you guys have been around for as long as I remember!
 
And yes, the program is much more stable.  And yes, I am constantly trying to catch up from a 3 year absence.  And yes, there is always something new.  
 
But sadly, I have forgotten a bunch of this fine program.  It has such a steep learning curve (all of the DAWs I have tried do so it is not a criticism of Cake).  
 
Alex got barred?  Which Alex?  
 
Did CJ disappear into professional recording land?  And there used to be a couple of girls of the female persuasion (susan?) that were around.  I don't see them.  
 
 

CakeAlexs, Splat, Doktor Avalanche . . . etc

CJ posted last night
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3633755
 
EDIT:Nightime for me that is

space_cowboy
...I have noticed that the postings on the forums are much less active than it used to be...

 
The rate of posting seems to be down. Or maybe just the number of threads is down. I remember a time when any threads that had not been active more that 12 hours would already have been long-overtaken and bumped down to page 2.

Forums in general don't have the same level of activity before other social media came into prominence. However, forums are still the only place for having lengthy, substantive discussions. Interestingly, HarmonyCentral.com has had 10 straight months of growth and most of that is due to the forums. I'd like to say we can up with some brilliant strategy 10 months ago but we didn't. The best theory I heard was at NAMM - "You guys lasted long enough for people to get sick of Facebook."
 
Overall, I think what's happening here is quality over quantity, for the various reasons posted above. Facebook is often more about quantity over quality. 

It is cool to see some of the old crew here. Many good memories. 

Still here, still occasionally creating.  I'm not spending anywhere near the amount of time I used to on forums.  I've actually recently been making a concerted effort to do more here and over at the vdrums.com forum because I found that the more I involved myself in the community, the more engaged I was in my musical endeavors.  Cutting back on one seems to have a direct relationship to cutting back on the other.  Whether it's just discussion about topics, reading and learning, or teaching, testing, or whatever, there seems to be a correlation - especially since I'm just a hobbyist.  I'm sure for those full-time folks, there is much less of a relationship and maybe even an inverse one!
 
Still glad to be here.  Happy to have an early "joined date" and a pretty good number of posts, so at least when I say something, even though I've been out of touch for a while, people don't say "newbie"!