Decisions from on high?

John Cornicello wrote:
>Yes, adobeforums.com has a permanent cookie available. But it is disabled at the moment because everyone who wants to have their message history preserved in the new system later this year needs to log out and log back in to get the prompt to associate their current Adobeforums account with their Adobe account.

May I humbly suggest that an announcement to this effect should be added to EVERY Adobe forum so we all don't keep complaining? Placing the statement here does little to stop the confusion/grousing.

Ugg... sigh. Nevermind.

As far as I know, the Remember Me on the Adobe site for urls with adobe.com in them will remember your user name, but not your password. Any cookies you set from adobe.com do not have any effect in these forums (at www.adobeforums.com).

Yes, adobeforums.com has a permanent cookie available. But it is disabled at the moment because everyone who wants to have their message history preserved in the new system later this year needs to log out and log back in to get the prompt to associate their current Adobeforums account with their Adobe account. This association does nothing at this point except put in a marker on your Adobeforums account to say which Adobe account to merge it with when the messages from the old systems are combined into the new.

I haven't had to do that since the last failed attempt where we ended up having to sign in either for every message or it went around in a circle 20 times before letting us. and before the first messed up time I had been signed in (they used a permanent cookie) from the day I started with the forum back in Acrobat 5 days until that time.

The remember me is what you had to tick for adobe to send a permanent cookie. I've checked my adobe cookies in SeaMonkey 1.1.14 cookie Manager and there is no cookie set to expire no earlier than 2013 and I have some that will in 2038 (probably longer than I will be living).

pjones, the email address and remember me is for your Adobe ID at Adobe.com. It doesn't have any relationship to these forums.

If you closed your browser since your last visit you will have to sign in again.

>shades of the same &*$# crude we had with the last failed attempt.

I think we need to chillax and wait to see what shakes out.

Well you now have another issue.

I checked in Sunday had to sign in using my email address and password the go to another page and choose the account I wanted to use. I did.
Then I specifically checked the item remember me. and I was able to go to accounts all the rest of the time I was signed up.

Now today I had been off for a day or two, Guess what I had to sign in. shades of the same &*$# crude we had with the last failed attempt.

For what it's worth, I agree with Dave and many others:

One of the features I absolutely LOVE with the WebX forums is the way it handles the "what I've already read in each thread" value.

I LOVE the thread display of:

I can handle the multi-pagers...
Here's an example from MacMinute:
http://forums.mactech.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/343541/Hit_Songs_of_1964#Post343541

...But I don't find that style nearly as user-friendly as the "memory" for what I've read that's used in the WebX forums.

Code samples would only appear in messages that had code. Very welcome in many of the scripting forums or forums that deal with HTML and the like. We shouldn't see much of it outside those places.

>Just please keep the garbage/plethora of icons from infecting the forums.

I think we all agree on that!