MDLMUSIC wrote:
I really miss the gear reviews. Are they totally gone or do I just not know where to look?
The most recent date I've heard is around March 15th.
)In recent news, it's rumored that HC has redesigned the wheel. It's now square. Somebody at HC really doesn't like forums. Or they would quit trying to nuke them. Why HC insists on continuing this destroy the community thing, I can't begin to understand. 
I use to bitch, but it's obviously fultile. I love Craig and everybody, but I can't get my head around HC spending all this time wrecking what was a thriving community with these bogus software platforms they keep getting. It's like buying a hammer when you have to drive some screws. 
stranger, communities find it hard to thrive when no one can get into the community to post or comment.
I've been far from kvetch-free in this transition -- but I'm perplexed by how many people seem to choose to forget that HC performance had been seriously degrading for months prior to the switch and that the last few weeks before moving to Lithium, it was often all but impossible to even make a simple post.
We're now kvetching (and, believe me, I've kvetched) about a system that actually works -- as in allows one to post and read others' posts -- but doesn't necessarily work the way folks are accustomed -- and that's fine, we would like to see some continued improvements and extra features -- but I would remind folks that a system that actually works is better from a common sense, level-headed, practical point of view than a system that doesn't.
the stranger wrote: But I still say they're trying to drive a screw with a hammer.
But of course, that's always preferable to getting screwed by a hammer. Or for that matter, getting screwed by MC Hammer.
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Philter wrote:
Phil O'Keefe wrote:
Philter wrote:
The thing that bugs me the most:
Truncated thread titles. Makes it impossible to know what many threads are about before opening them... this makes me not want to use the forum at all. And it seems totally stupid because of how much white space goes wasted in the thread listing pages.
And, I can't find the feedback forum any more. Did they give up?
As has already been mentioned, the Feedback forum is still there.
As far as thread titles, I was asked about that a couple of days ago, and I said I was in favor of making them longer. I'm not sure if my advice will be heeded or not, and if so, when that will happen, but I was asked, so apparently someone is considering changing that.
Thank Phil, I did post about it on that forum (a couple times I think) but it feels a bit like an echo chamber in there. Glad to know they are still thinking about improvements.
I just had a sidebar discussion with meowmi (who is guiding the changeover fixes) and it seems clear to me she is very definitely keeping an eye on the Feedback forum -- despite a tendency of some folks to keep complaining about the same things over and over even after the situation/status of the desired 'fixes' is explained repeatedly. (The echo chamber effect. I'll admit, I've hit on the same complaint a few times myself. 
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