In mentioning those items, I thought the community requesting a feature qualified as a feature request from the community. Everything I mentioned was in fact requested by the community. If in your mind
only requests presented in the Features & Ideas forum qualify, given that the forum started less than two years ago it seems unfair to want a list of features from the last three years that could be attributed to it. Furthermore, many of the updates happening now were started in response to user requests from X3 and even before, when there was no Features & Ideas forum and
only requests in the SONAR forum itself. It can also take months, or even years, for something to transition from "cool idea" to QCed lines of solid code with an installer.
Personally, I'm glad so many of the community's requests have been implemented, regardless of when or how they communicated those requests to Cakewalk. I think they've added major functionality to the program.
Also, there is no problem with pointing out failings. Many bugs have been fixed because people, including myself, did point out failings. In fact this forum is filled with posts that point out failings, in my opinion to a fault when the same complaint gets repeated over and over again by the same people, as if there's some belief that if you say something enough times, code will somehow materialize. Yet I don't see those posts being deleted, nor those users banned.
However, I strongly believe that threads are most useful and receive the greatest participation when they stick to a topic. I didn't expect that a thread called "Theme - Color Guide" would become a platform to complain about Cakewalk after only six posts, particularly from the person who set the thread topic, and particularly because prior to that at least scook and I were conforming to the original premise in order to encourage others to do the same.
I
still think one thread with all the screen shots and tips would be the best way to go, and I wish you would re-consider doing that. My objective is helping people get the most out of SONAR, but we obviously have different ideas of how to do that and that's okay. We probably make different music, too.