Cafe Announcements 📣 What's wrong with Cafesaxophone?

[Digger2054]

Personally I find this site very welcoming and friendly. Whilst not as busy as another forum, I find on there that it's a little more hostile and argumentative.

 

[Targa]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaA3YZ6QdJU

 

[Argeebee]

Maybe we can think about annual meeting. It could also be done every six months.
It's fun and encouraging to get together in real life. You can look forward to that. And save some money for the trip. I'm curious what you think about this. A Cafe Saxophone Day.

Every now and again we like to get some feedback (for your safety and convenience).

This is a no holds barred thread, say what you think - so we can know how to improve. The thread could have been a poll, but I think it's better to get this kind of feedback in your own words so go for it.

Note that there is no taboo on anything (within our rules) - you can mention other sites or forums, you can mention things that you think we currently do, or previously did, wrong.

Mainly we need to learn about how we are doing and how we might improve.

Or, if you don't want to say publicly, please do contact me via Direct Message. (aka PM or "conversation") or else via Contact mods (where all the team can respond but it is private between you and us)

 

[Woodpad]

Cafesaxphone emphasizes banter, which tempers discussions. Is it possible to introduce a banter award emoji among the possibilities for react?

 

[Wonko]

For me, this forum is close to perfect.

 

[Manco]

As far as backing tracks. If someone chooses to play a piece from the BOTM set theme of the month, then he has a BT for it. Post the BT along with his version, if requested. Simples. I imagine that it will only happen in a few cases, but it not only involves more parties but also shares BT,s for all concerned.🙂

JUST A THOUGHT. Sharing a backing track is usually just sharing a link, but if a member has spent time constructing his/her BT , then a small fee payable to the cafe for the service. Possibly around the figure charged by online sites.

 

[thomsax]

I like Café Saxophone. I shall stay out of too deep discussions in the future. I try to post more obscure Rock & Roll Saxophone recordings.

 

[Phil]

No problems to report other than my lack of understanding a lot of British humor 🙂

 

[Pete Thomas]

Cafesaxphone emphasizes banter, which tempers discussions. Is it possible to introduce a banter award emoji among the possibilities for react?

Although banter is fun, it can be a double-edged sword. It is not good for SEO (ie not helpful for getting listed in Google) , hence we often have to move posts when they get too off topic. Also there are cases where someone who starts a thread wants it to stay on topic. Especially in classifieds and we respect that.

 

[Direct Current]

For me, this forum is close to perfect.

Me too.

 

[DavidUK]

Playing along to backing tracks and posting your playing is fine, and it is really, really good for a player's confidence, learning, and determination (to get it right... eventually!) I've posted a couple over the years BUT I always find it a chore to remember how to do this.

I use Garageband, have to import the BT, set up a track, create a 2nd track, find where to plug my headphones into the mic (iPad mic is quite good otherwise) so I find even thinking about posting my playing a chore.

If only there were ONE simple app/system which was really simple to use AND a simple tutorial here to show/remind folks how to do it.

 

[DavidUK]

Oh... and one improvement...

When posting a series of photos using "insert image"...

...the icons move up, out of the viewable screen so I have to scroll up to click it again for the next photo, or to use any icon function.

On SOTW the icons are at the bottom of the screen, under the text window, so as to be easily accessible...

Could we move them underneath too?

 

[nigeld]

My feeling is that Café Saxophone has become increasingly bland over the last three or four years. The off-topic (and often very funny) diversions are gone and the tone has become more "serious". Personally I would like to see more silliness, but I don't know how to achieve that.

 

[Pete Effamy]

Written for his wife just before he got a divorce. 😉

 

[thomsax]

My feeling is that Café Saxophone has become increasingly bland over the last three or four years. The off-topic (and often very funny) diversions are gone and the tone has become more "serious". Personally I would like to see more silliness, but I don't know how to achieve that.

The price CS have to pay for being an international forum. Big difference between Swedish (North Europe), UK and US silliness. How to achieve more silliness? That's easy, make CS more UK/English again.

 

[Pete Thomas]

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[Pete Thomas]

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[Direct Current]

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[trimmy]

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