RE: Avid Community Forums

["Victor Wolansky" <victorw(at)NATMEDIA.com>]

Title: Avid Community Forums

Sorry… Nothing personal, but I still don’t buy it…  non of the other list was killed, only DS list.  And not having the option to reply by email makes it too slow, even unusable for many people. The way it was, was the best and I still believe that was killed because all the noise we made with our sadness and frustration because the lack of interest from Avid into make a great box even better and just look at their own interest….  Make more money…

 

Again, nothing personal with you….  

 

CU at the Google list if you want to join.

 

 

PS: I realy hope to see this NAB that I was wrong….    But I have the feeling that this year at Yolies we are going to be talking about

which is going to be our next box and not about DS…..  I really hope I’m very wrong…

 

 

Victor Wolansky
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From: owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-ds(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf Of Sylvain Labrosse
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 9:10 AM
To: DS(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Avid Community Forums

 

Hello,

I waited for the dust to come down a bit before posting.

The intention was to regroup all the wonderful knowledge into a single place so all great minds could help newcomers with their excellent advices.  The forum did not have much activity for Avid DS and there are numerous other forums where the DS community could pick great information and even exchange workflows and tips.

The forum is also a place where users can provide their suggestions and feedback about the product.  It is totally acceptable to even post complaints about what is missing or not working.

I research the e-mail question with the forum web developers and they provided me this answer:

You can subscribe to one or all forums and receive the posts in your mailbox:
Log in to the Community Forums.
Click the forum you want.
Scroll down and click the "Options" button.
In the bottom pulldown ("Send e-mail"), select the option you want;
        never
        when new topics are posted in this forum (new threads)
        when new posts are posted in this forum (new posts) Click "Remember!"
To reply to a post, though, the member would have to click on the link they receive in their e-mail to return to the forums - you can't reply via e-mail.

It is not like a mailing-list but this an option for users who wish to lurk and read the discussions, maybe even participate.

I feel that going away to a separate mailing-list is like isolating yourself from the Avid community instead of joining in with the entire group, exchanging ideas and workflows between products, and helping building the next generation of products by providing suggestions or pointing out the current flaws.

I understand the overall reaction.  Being at Softimage since 1992 and living through two major acquisitions (Microsoft in 1994 and Avid in 1998), I know how upsetting things can be, or appear to be, at first.  Can I ask people to re-evaluate it all, when the emotion is taken out of the equation?  Maybe not today, not next week, just when you feel ready?

Having a separate mailing-list is fine if that is everybody's decision.

The Avid Community Forums welcome anyone who wants to join.

Sylvain Labrosse
Avid DS Support
Escalation team
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