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bpalm
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Date Joined Sep 2014
Total Posts : 34
| Posted Today 11:45 AM (GMT -6) |   | How can you edit a profile photo on the new forum? It won't let me it says it's "automatically" set, and I can't change it. Why?
"The name, profile photo, phone, and email are set automatically. You can't change them here."
Adam W. said...These forums were originally created to provide a way for our passionate Finale users to share ideas, provide valuable input, and find answers from our community. A number of other great public forums for discussion about our products and best practices have become available since this platform first began. These include Facebook, SHSU, Twitter, Yahoo and various other forums and blogs. Also, as many of you know, the release of our new Help Center over the summer provides another avenue for discussion and input. In an effort to provide a centralized, accessible, and most of all, helpful community for all of our customers, we are focusing our resources on the new forums in our Help Center Community. As of January 1st, 2017, we will only monitor and support these new forums. At that time these existing forums will be locked. We want this large body of valuable information to remain available, so while these forums will be locked at the end of the year, they will be archived so that they can still be accessed by those looking for any of the helpful historical information located here. We want to thank you for the value you’ve already provided to MakeMusic and its customers in these forums, and we look forward to seeing you in our new Help Center Community! Best, Adam Wig Director, Customer Success Michael Johnson Vice President, Professional Notation Fred Flowerday, Senior Vice President, Product Strategy | | Back to Top | |
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Credo
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Date Joined Feb 2016
Total Posts : 142
| Posted Yesterday 6:04 PM (GMT -6) | | poparad said...
Wow, talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
I used to actively participate in the Harmony Central forums (I was/am a moderator there), and when Guitar Center bought them up about 10 years ago, they had the brilliant idea to move to a new forum software/format, not unlike what is linked at the top of this thread. Within a couple of months, a forum that was one of the top 10 ranked forums on the internet saw its user base nearly vanish. The users were all very vocal in expressing their concerns over the move, but they were completely ignored because the higher-ups supposedly knew best. Today, Harmony Central has almost no daily activity. The forum I moderated, has had fewer than 20 posts in all 2016. It used to get twice that daily.
This forum is a great resource that I have returned to time and time again for assistance from a very knowledgeable and helpful community. Communities like this are a fragile thing, and if they are seriously disrupted by something as foolhardy as shutting down an active and engaged forum like this, they will be decimated and never again return to their prior robustness.
+1 for poparad's post!
Forum accounts for user communities really need to remain separate from the main Product Account(s) too!
Case in point: Studio Workshops, School/University Students, etc. Many people get 'training' and 'exposure' in products like Finale, and some even use it every day in work-places and NEVER get (nor should they) access to the 'product account(s)'. | | Back to Top | |
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poparad
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Date Joined Nov 2014
Total Posts : 28
| Posted Yesterday 3:54 PM (GMT -6) | | Wow, talk about shooting yourself in the foot.
I used to actively participate in the Harmony Central forums (I was/am a moderator there), and when Guitar Center bought them up about 10 years ago, they had the brilliant idea to move to a new forum software/format, not unlike what is linked at the top of this thread. Within a couple of months, a forum that was one of the top 10 ranked forums on the internet saw its user base nearly vanish. The users were all very vocal in expressing their concerns over the move, but they were completely ignored because the higher-ups supposedly knew best. Today, Harmony Central has almost no daily activity. The forum I moderated, has had fewer than 20 posts in all 2016. It used to get twice that daily.
This forum is a great resource that I have returned to time and time again for assistance from a very knowledgeable and helpful community. Communities like this are a fragile thing, and if they are seriously disrupted by something as foolhardy as shutting down an active and engaged forum like this, they will be decimated and never again return to their prior robustness. | | Back to Top | |
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jange
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Date Joined Oct 2013
Total Posts : 53
| Posted Yesterday 11:35 AM (GMT -6) | | Just to make sure that everybody got it right:
- they are not deleting this forum, so all threads will still be there -> they are just locking it, so no new threads can be added
- they are not removing every Finale forum -> they are just changing their main platform, so you don't need to change to Facebook, Finaleforum, etc.
If this is change cannot be undone, it would make sense to make it as easy as possible for everybody and to emphasize on the positive aspects of the change. Losing features and knowledge (or making it more difficult to retrieve old knowledge) is not acceptable if it could be solved easily.
Some suggestions to MakeMusic:
- migrate the old dotNetBB forum to Zendesk (i.e. migrate all messages to the new system), so that we only need to search in one forum and that everybody can find his own (old) contributions, username, profile photo, etc. in the new system
- also migrate the old helpdesk to Zendesk, so that we have still access to our old technical requests (I regularly looked into my old helpdesk entries looking for the solution - now they are all gone...)
- add missing features to Zendesk (with its API you can adjust the system)
- improve the design! It looks very overloaded and clumsy
- don't forget the social aspect in forums: names, number of posts, post history, profile info, communicating with other users are very important aspects in forums and building a long-lasting community. If everything is lost and has to be rebuilt, you will lose many active users.
- simply make it a pleasant change ... if it looks and feels good, everybody will participate in it.
Finally, what is the advantage of the new Zendesk system ?
MakeMusic can have all customer relations in one database, so for example all technical requests and forum entries are connected with the same account.
Jan
Elbsound.studioPost Edited (jange) : 12/2/2016 10:39:04 AM (GMT-6) | | Back to Top | |
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sandalwood
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Date Joined Feb 2015
Total Posts : 47
| Posted Yesterday 10:45 AM (GMT -6) | | I humbly think this forum is a significant part of what Finale as a working tool is worth. It is a soothing reassurance that any problem encountered while using Finale, regardless of how elementary, general or advanced, specific it is, will be provided with the best available solution. When no solution yet exists it is able to provide an almost equally valuable clarification in defining and mapping the problem and on where we currently stand as to solving it.
Also a great source on notation issues and an invaluable bulletin on similar programs, DAWs, etc. ...and a great feeling of a community formed over the years with civilized, expert people on board. Terminating this forum would certainly not help me stay with Finale.
Please reconsider your decision.
Finale 2014.5, Notion 5, GPO5, Miroslav Philharmonik
W10, i7 | | Back to Top | |
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Credo
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Date Joined Feb 2016
Total Posts : 142
| Posted Yesterday 9:58 AM (GMT -6) | | Big mistake!
Having users rely on some third party front end like Facebook (or any other outside 'media merging' service) are:
1. Ultra distracting. I don't want advertisements, junk news links, and political nonsense mixed in with my cozy work den, and as an educator, it's difficult enough keeping students focused as it is!
2. Unsecure. I can convince sysops in educational and professional environments to let these forums through their firewalls. Good luck making that happen for the leading 'social media sites'. People are paid with tax dollars 'to work' with tools that are relative to their job descriptions, not play with adverts and kitten pictures on Face Book! Many states have outright legislative bans on allowing state workstations access to 'social media' sites like Facebook from state owned (schools, universities, etc.) with out all sorts of 'limited special need' permission slips that are an administrative and legal nightmare for everyone involved!
3. Short Sighted. MakeMusic will 'lose control' of what the consumer gets to see mixed in with the content. There will be nothing to stop AVID, Steinberg, Prosounus, or whoever, from buying Ads and plunking it right in the middle of your 'support network'.
4. Unwise. MakeMusic could lose the ability to access, maintain, and control any DATA collected from USERS by relying on so many 'free and external' social media outlets. While they might currently keep a running db and provide tools for locking down the information and data-mining your own pages/wall, they reserve the right to TAKE THAT AWAY at any time! The content will no longer belong to MakeMusic..........and said social media companies might hold your own data for ransom (and even grant your competitors less limited access)!
There are better ways to save money. Think of it like this!
Small towns across the USA once had many millionaires who became so by 'hand selecting' small amounts of choice timber from individuals all over the nation. To deal with the 'by-products' they also made 'pallet factories' in order to make a little extra profit from the 'scrap' cuts of lumber.
A couple of generations later, the youngsters got the idea that the old farts collecting and providing the 'top notch' trees for milling were 'outdated and in the way'.
Thinking 'scrap lumber is cheap', and that 'commercial farms' are the only viable places to go hunt for harvestable trees, they sold their old 'antiquated' saw mills, fired all the founders who knew the real money was in picking the best trees and providing premium board-feet, while accusing them of being archaic, greedy, and short sighted.
Less than 10 years later, they found they no longer had an internal source for scrap wood to make their pallets. So many 'young factories' had joined forces and created a DEMAND for so called 'scrap lumber'. The 'mill scraps' became almost as valuable and expensive as the prime choice board-feet! Lack of affordable raw resources put the majority of such factories OUT OF BUSINESS.
This is SOFTWARE....your number one strategic asset is your KNOWLEDGE and your active user base (who provides a significant chunk of that knowledge). Don't put your primary strategic assets into some third party's hands just because you 'think' it might save a dollar in the short term.
Keep control of your data....and your userbase! You worked hard to build it.....it'd be foolish to give that much POWER over to third parties who can change the rules on you at a moments notice!
As for the link to the 'new in house message board'. It seems like a pretty big step backwards. I can see how it might be a little better for 'mobile devices', but currently the bulk of MM products are NOT mobile-centric. We need 'workstations' to run this stuff, so it would make more sense to keep fully featured, viable, professional looking, and efficent 'workstation-centric' message boards.
Also consider that a massive chuck of the Finale user base does not personally own a 'user key' or get access to a 'product account'. Professors and students who use this stuff in offices and learning labs around the world need to be able to create Forum accounts and seek community help without having a full fledge MM product account. If we educators lose such benefits, there's not much reason left to remain devoted to Finale as the 'training ground' for the next generation of Notation users/creators.Post Edited (Credo) : 12/2/2016 5:15:11 PM (GMT-6) | | Back to Top | |
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johnmouse
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Date Joined Jul 2003
Total Posts : 849
| Posted Yesterday 7:48 AM (GMT -6) | | Huge mistake! Questions and answers from users are valuable. What SHOULD HAVE been done, years ago, as foretold and promised (yet another broken promise), would have been to migrate to new forum software. I have used MM's help center before, and frankly it's about as useful as teats on a boar hog.
I agree with jange and others. Simply migrate this current forum to software that is actually in use today. Even if the present content is archived as read only, it would still be useful. Presently, by locking this forum, you might as well just delete the entire thing as the search function does not work, and has not worked for quite some time now.
MM's proposal on killing this users forum is a big mistake. This is not how to influence and gain new customers. Nor is it the way to treat current customers. Adam, I urge you and MM to seriously reconsider this decision.
John
Finale 2012/2014 (Well, it's installed.)
M-Audio KeyRig 49
Desktop: Windows 8.1/i5 Core/8 Gig RAM
Laptop: Windows 7/i3 Core/6 Gig RAM | | Back to Top | |
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SysExJohn
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Date Joined Jan 2014
Total Posts : 57
| Posted Yesterday 6:57 AM (GMT -6) | | Well, if they do go ahead, then GPO5 will be my LAST Garritan product, and my next version of notation software will NOT be Finale.
Not that my feelings will make one iota of difference to a "management decision", in my experience.
There are none as deaf as those who will not hear.
A sad, sad day.
John Garside.
at MIDI-tutor.proboards.com
Finale 2012c, Sonar 7 PE, XGworks.
Garritan GPO4, JABB, COMB, IO, Organs, Steinway, Harps + GPO5.
E-MU 1616m PCI and Cardbus x 2.
Yamaha AN1x.Post Edited (SysExJohn) : 12/2/2016 6:00:18 AM (GMT-6) | | Back to Top | |
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gogreen
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Date Joined Dec 1999
Total Posts : 1618
| Posted 12/1/2016 7:44 PM (GMT -6) | | Adam, Michael, and Fred said...
These forums were originally created to provide a way for our passionate Finale users to share ideas, provide valuable input, and find answers from our community. A number of other great public forums for discussion about our products and best practices have become available since this platform first began. These include Facebook, SHSU, Twitter, Yahoo and various other forums and blogs. Also, as many of you know, the release of our new Help Center over the summer provides another avenue for discussion and input.
In an effort to provide a centralized, accessible, and most of all, helpful community for all of our customers, we are focusing our resources on the new forums in our Help Center Community. As of January 1st, 2017, we will only monitor and support these new forums. At that time these existing forums will be locked.
We want this large body of valuable information to remain available, so while these forums will be locked at the end of the year, they will be archived so that they can still be accessed by those looking for any of the helpful historical information located here.
We want to thank you for the value you’ve already provided to MakeMusic and its customers in these forums, and we look forward to seeing you in our new Help Center Community!
Best,
Adam Wig
Director, Customer Success
Michael Johnson
Vice President, Professional Notation
Fred Flowerday,
Senior Vice President, Product Strategy
Adam, Michael, and Fred: As constructively as I can say, I must say you're making a big mistake. You should migrate this forum and its wealth of information to new software and keep it going.
Arthur J. Michaels
/www.facebook.com/composerarthurjmichaels
Finale 2000, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2011b.r2, 2014d, 2014.5, Finale 25
Core i7 860 @ 2.80 GHz, 8.0 GB RAM, Windows 10 Home x64
Garritan COMB2, GPO4, GPO5, Aria Player 1.872, Audacity 2.1.2
Dell 2408 WFP, 1920x1200
M-Audio Delta Audiophile 2496
Casio WK-3000
M-Audio AV40 monitors
AKG K-240 Studio headphones
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Motet
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Date Joined Dec 2002
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michelp
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Date Joined Aug 2003
Total Posts : 2232
| Posted 12/1/2016 4:27 PM (GMT -6) | | I fully agree. The new forum doesn't meet professional standards. The shortcomings are many, like Mike Rosen and others pointed out. It is not even possible to see what software, and which version the poster is using : PrintMusic, Finale 20XX ? Which Os they use, etc... A huge mess, no logic, no organization. I second Jan's suggestion to move to a better forum tool, because what we need is more, not less content and usability. And don't get me started on the Facebook page !
MM, you are shooting yourself in the foot !
Michel
Finale 25.1, 2014.5, 2012c (main), MacOsX 10.11.6, Mac Mini Intel i7 2,7 Ghz, 16 Go Ram, French azerty kb, Dolet 6. Full TGTools. MOTU Audio Express. | | Back to Top | |
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Derrek
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Date Joined Dec 2009
Total Posts : 2347
| Posted 12/1/2016 3:05 PM (GMT -6) | | If this forum is to be archived, how will anyone find anything with the current, broken search function?
This forum is not perfect, but it is vastly more user friendly than the new one(s)--and I say that as someone who has used both extensively, not to mention the Steinberg/Dorico Forum. I've made a note of the site Mike suggested and will look for the FB PowerUsers site.
Finale 2014.5, Finale 25.1 - Windows 7 (64-bit)
GPO 5, JABB 3, World Instruments
TG Tools Full, (Sonar Platinum, Dorico)
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” — Groucho Marx
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