Aloha guys,
Perhaps this post should be in the
‘Feature Requests and Suggestions’ forum but this is not
a request for a new feature.
This is more of a ‘let’s avoid future probs with current features’ question.
Here goes.
I like the hub.
And while it’s not so much a prob right now,
I can see that in the near future the number of articles
in the ‘News’ tab part of the hub, is going to be quite long.
Scrolling thru it may become time consuming and problematic.
So before this gets to be an issue, perhaps some
thought can be given to some sort of clever ‘management scheme’.
Perhaps a grouping of topics into sections etc.
Just spitballing here.
I like the idea, but I only glace at the hub when my workstation is online (which isn’t too often) and that’s just to see if there’s anything new. If there’s a specific Cubase-related article I want to find, I usually search for it at Steinberg’s site or, failing that, with DuckDuckGo / Google.
Sure it’d be cool to grow, but I don’t use Cubase as an online hub and I’d rather the feature remain minimalistic as it is. 99% of the time, my workstation is kept offline and used for work, and I keep a non-DAW-equipped laptop nearby for my habitual traipsing about the interwobbles.
I bet they have a built-in article limit already, but I don’t see it pop up anywhere in documentation. If there were some buttons on the hub to filter out certain types of news (E.G.: new product releases, product updates, new tutorials, new artist spotlights, etc.), that would actually be pretty cool.
Internet hub in a program made for audio work.
It saddens me that developer time was allocated for such a feature.
The whole idea does not suit me, perhaps I am just being grumpy.
You aren’t being grumpy. The Hub is the biggest waste of space and developer resources I think I’ve ever seen. Not to mention the time I wasted trying to figure out its value.
The startup ‘recently used’ project list was promising; until that is, you soon discovered as the list grew, you had absolutely no control over it. Incorporating this with a SB ‘hub’ again is promising - only if it could become a real ‘browser’ type experience. Live ‘web pages’ (or parts thereof) displaying right there in this ‘hub’ would be cool; videos, tutorials, articles, etc… RATHER than just ‘dumb’ items (web links) launching another app/window. As everyone else is saying, who needs that…?
Have turned it off.
Using ‘Recent Project List’ from File menu, once CB has launched.
Plus let’s not forget that for a significant amount of users (myself included), the hub doesn’t even work properly (no connection)!
Talking about wasted development effort!
