What has happened to this forum?

Not only that but now when I do a Google search and come up with the topic I want, the link takes me to the main forum/community page instead of the actual topic in the forum. I've wasted so much time today just trying to get to the page with the question I'm ready to just chuck the entire forum thing (and I lived on the Captivate and Acrobat forums...) So sad.

If you click on the blue reply button under the original post, you get a proper reply box. That daft single line thing seems to be for one line replies ... and as you found out, don’t press return expecting to go to a new line cos it doesn’t do that!

<Quote>What have you done to all the wonderfuly helpful people who used to give their time to help newbies like me? </Quote>

We'll we're still here.

But it's very difficult to filter through the posts to find the ones I can answer. My inbox is a mess with hundreds of posts on all the topics and programs I cover. And all posts are jumbled together.

Plus, my email software shows the first sentence of the post/reply, not the subject. Again, difficult to figure out if that's someone's post that I've helped with before, or is it something entirely new.

For all these reasons, I'm not able to answer as many questions as before.

We're all volunteers (except for the Adobe staff), so I catch the forums for a few minutes throughout the day when I have 10-15 minutes to spare. But right now, my 15 minutes is spent trying to figure out just what is in my inbox!

This is a very disappointing roll-out of the forums technology.

I agree. I find it much more difficult to find posts to respond to in my field of knowledge. Every Acrobat topic has literally be consolidated into one forum. Granted we do have the "Topics" to help filter, but if posters are unaware of how to apply them to their posts then good luck finding it again. Too, Topic filters only seem to stick with one search. Moving back to the main thread to read the next post puts me back in the consolidated list.

Very frustrating indeed. Change is one thing, but I struggle to see how this makes posting, search, or replying more efficient. The opposite, actually.