Still not having fun using "The Bakery" "Forum"

Hehe, I don't like it either. I don't know why, because it seems a lot more functional and better geared towards features and questions. And yet I find it harder to navigate and read.

not sure if you are being serious or sarcastic but . . .
 
http://bakery.cakewalk.com/
 
plus there is a little cupcake icon at the top right of the sonar start screen

Keni
Yeah the subject line says it all.

yeah, not sure any fun was advertised? typical half-baked delivery imo, ymmv

Haven't been there in a while. To be honest I totally forgot about it. I'm used to coming here to participate and don't think about going somewhere else. So even if it's a good format, it's probably going to get less input, at least from me. 
 
While we're at it. Collecting data from users was a big debate a while back. But they eventually put it in with the option to turn it off if you were concerned. Then I recently saw a post from Anderton that said it only collected very basic info and really didn't help all that much. 
 
Geez, if you're going to collect data to try to make the app better, please collect something useful!! 
 
gabo

Yea it was part of this post about someone leaving sonar. 
 
http://forum.cakewalk.com/The-biggest-reason-I-left-Sonar-m3539347.aspx#3540049
 
gabo

Visiting the bakery I got the impression that seems to be a place thought
as a more  technical and reticant -question -answer based place compared to 
this forum and community. No fun means also not that much emotions wanted
I guess.
Understand it  more dedicated to the technical speech and software developers .
 

scook

Dave76
Is anyone even using it?  ... Last posts were from a couple of weeks ago

All three areas have activity in the last 24 hours.
 
It depends on what you mean by

Dave76
 no one even answered the questions.

It is up to the questioner to mark their question answered. Many of the questions have replies. Of course, you could try answering a few yourself.

so users are expected to answer? so there's no difference (in that sense) than this forum? boo!

Every time I've opened it I see basic questions that are normally posted here and Steve, you seem to be all by your self answering them. Very few posts answered by other forum members. And all the posts seem to be very short and to the point. 
 
I've used the MS community forum a few times, I rarely get real answers, just links to the knowledge base which are always not even close.   I asked a question once and a MS person asked for more details even though there were none to give, I had explained my issue very clearly,  my screen would go blank after 1 minute , all power settings were set to Never. I got my answer from a computer  forum ( NCIX) it was a screen saver setting I missed, easy, so I returned and posted I had solved my issue. The MS person ( machine?) posted again asking for more detail,  I said I had solve the issue and told them what it was. I keep getting E mails asking me to return and answer. Stupid forum. 

so can we assume this is not the advertised "feedback portal" but just some extra forum space? because "feedback" implies cakewalk are involved
 

As it sits, I feel the bakery is better suited for just collecting ideas for improvement. You can easily see what features users are interested in and how many others agree or disagree with them. The fact that Cakewalk may not pay any attention to those ideas is another issue. Beyond that, I find the bakery pretty much useless. Following threads in that area is unpleasant for me and difficult, but that may just be me and my thought process.
 
New ideas are not bad but they have to be reviewed. IF it turns out that the idea wasn't great you can't be afraid to cut it loose and try something else. Unfortunately those that create the new idea see it's failure as a personal failure and refuse to admit it wasn't successful. 

scook
I see. The part you quoted comes from http://forum.cakewalk.com/FindPost/3539705
While it does confirm the basic nature of the data collected, Craig did not write it

gbowling
 really didn't help all that much.

I was pretty sure he has never posted a negative assessment of the analytics data. Thanks for the reference. Sorry to derail the Bakery thread.

Yes, sorry to put words in Craig's mouth.
 
I'll go on record as saying, if you're going to collect data (and I have it turned on in my Sonar) then I would be all for it providing as much useful data as possible. To me it's not a negative, it's a positive!
 
To me the bakery and the collection of data are all related. They provide a way for the bakers to get information about what works, doesn't work, and to understand a useful direction. The more effective that is, the better the product.
 
gabo

My impression is that  the Bakery is somehow a benefit to Cakewalk and not the users. No real reason to make another site and close the existing one here. I suspect that Cakewalk is trying to  see if they can save money by creating  a forum.
When i visit  the  Bakery and see that orange on white color scheme i just want to leave. I still question just why it exists.

scottfa
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When i visit  the  Bakery and see that orange on white color scheme i just want to leave. I still question just why it exists.

I find it hard to look at. I'm kind of tired of the trend of colour-schemes that lose the basic ability to read at length. Light gray on gray, orange on white, etc. This forum here is much easier imho