And they don't. Every single release contains features requested by the community. Maybe not the ones you, personally, feel are most important.But that doesn’t mean they should ignore the users who rely on their DAW to get work done.
A community around discontentment, that attracts and gives a platform to people obsessed with certain feature requests, is a losing proposition for everyone involved (including those users). A company can NEVER listen to the community enough. This sounds like an inspirational business slogan, but in this context it just means that whatever a developer is gonna do, it's not gonna be enough. You tick one widely requested feature request off the list, and the cries for the next one begin immediately. If they don't implement THIS, they don't care about professional users! They're just building a hobby DAW because this peculiar task takes me 3 clicks instead of just one like in DAWXYZ! I can't blame them for not wanting to engage with this type of "discourse", and from my experience, even careful community management won't prevent public discussion about DAW feature requests from descending to this level. Even carefully curated feature lists like the one from sternen-herz linked above contain a lot of highly opinionated statements about what "Bitwig must" do, where even though I agree with a lot of the suggestions (I just skimmed the list), ultimately it just all sounds a bit misguided if what you're after is a "dialog" or a "balanced relationship". You end up cultivating a bit of a mob, instead.
(Heck, I tend to stay away from this forum these days because there's so much negativity by the same old people who allegedly have moved on from Bitwig but find it worthwhile to spend their time coming back to, essentially, endlessly rant about how Bitwig's not for them. I'm using Bitwig to be productive, and a community centred around complaining and whining just isn't that appealing, to be honest.)
And make no mistake: Bitwig doesn't need a forum where people discuss and upvote ideas. Any company led by creative people will always have more ideas than resources to turn them into reality. They don't need to a forum to tell them what features are most commonly asked about, or what features would put Bitwig ahead in the market. Your view that Bitwig isn't even covering "simple basics" to incorporate community feedback is an unfounded assertion, as far as I can tell.
You said it yourself that you just want to "feel heard", but what this translates to IMO is a sense of entitlement to information about development status ("Will they build it? When?") or confirmations/promises that something you asked about is indeed on the roadmap. Because otherwise, the friendly stock response you get when you send them an email with a feature request – and the knowledge that someone in the company will read it – should be enough. It is for most people.
Statistics: Posted by Dionysos — Wed Sep 25, 2024 9:14 am