Whew at least it wasn't Alex Thekook or however you spell that Dutch(?) name.  He is a good dude.  

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.

I don't know if this was mentioned already, but it seems a lot of my old haunts (music forums, such as this one) have lost a lot of activity when Facebook started to become more popular.   When FB first started, it was mostly social groups between family, friends and coworkers.  But now we have tons of commercial-related groups.  I know of at least 6 or 7 Sonar Facebook groups that are very active on a daily basis.

There were also a lot of private forums, one of them grew out of the Coffee House, for musicians to discuss whatever they wanted.  And it was a true virtual community.   But those too have seen many members migrate over to Facebook.

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. 

And here's me thinking that there's so many new names on the forum that just don't post as much. But yes lots the the old timers are gone.
Susan G went over to Reaper and a few more went over to Studio One.

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

Yea, I don't have the time to post as much, and, frankly, I've probably said all I know in the last ten years.  I don't even read many newbie questions since there are plenty of answers by other (and younger and less jaded) people.  And I think most of the above arguments is true.  Not as many software problems and computer problems as we used to have, for the most part.
 
I still like jumping in on SONAR and touch, and the matrix. 

I'm happy to say, whether this Cakewalk forum is declining or growing, it's still one of my regular daily online stops.
Most of the time I just read, but when I feel I can offer something, or post a song, (or need to ask a question), I'll post as well.

And to paraphrase Anderton's quote, even though I participate heavily on Facebook, it's just gotten so political lately, and even worse, the click-bait questions and commercial spam is causing massive Facebook burn-out.
 

bitflipper
 . . . 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 . . .

This greybeard is still a regular visitor.  I had a fling with a couple of other DAWs a while back, but the improvements Sonar made while I was fooling around elsewhere drew me back.  It has been problem-free for me too.  Not a burp or a reboot for a long time.  For me, this forum has gone from a noisy emergency room triage station to a comfy classroom where I can park myself to learn new stuff and relearn old stuff I've forgotten or mis-filed.  Thanks to all the regular teaching staff who show up and keep this place useful.

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"!