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Forum changes

Forum|Forum|11 years ago
May 3, 2014
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OK, there's good progress in not being forced to sign in every time, but there's some way to go. We're missing:

1. Number of posts in a thread

2. Indication of most recent contributor to a thread

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Bill12

Inspiring

I am seeing a lot of the same types of complaints as we had when we went to Jive several years back. There were some new features and some that were lost. Some just seem to be hidden or relocated (something programmers seem to like to do to waste folks time). I assume my bookmarks got removed and I will have to start over (I found no place to go to my bookmarks). It looks like file uploads is finally back, though as an upload rather than as an attachment. My link history for anchors is still in the system. I think a lot may just be an issue of finding the itemshttp://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/kb/acrobat-downloads.html. Just for the heck of it, I tried bold, italic and underline, but the button did not reliably toggle. So I got the last sentence very messed up.

I assume that such things are some of the many bugs mentioned in this new software. I am hoping I will find all the same things I am used to and that the bugs will be fixed.

I noticed that the back button often has to be pushed a second time (or alt-larrow in Windows).

The forums seem to automatically put you in the e-mail mode. Need to go find how to turn that off now.

try67

Community Expert

What happened to the "personalized view"? I worked hard on creating an easy-to-use list of the forums I like to frequent... Is this feature gone?

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Dave Merchant

Legend

Yes it's gone.

Gilad D (try67) wrote:

What happened to the "personalized view"? I worked hard on creating an easy-to-use list of the forums I like to frequent... Is this feature gone?

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Samoreen

Inspiring

This software is the most terrible thing I have seen since the BBS era. Almost nothing to save. Did anybody test it before making the decision to switch to this pitiful piece of code? Please Adobe "upgrade" to the old version asap and consider banning any tool bearing the name "Jive".

--Patrick

Noel Carboni

Legend

I'm happy to get a full editor on an iPad now.

-Noel

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Bob_Peters

Inspiring

Wow. Just look at that wasted column on the left side of each page. That is pure design genious!

No crumbs at the bottom of a page to return to the first page.

Too much wasted space between discussion titles.

Font cannot be adjusted.

Etc, etc, etc ad nauseam!

SNAFU of the first order.

Forgot a major one: The response is VERY slow.

dj_paige

Legend

In the old forum, there used to be a way to call up a list of discussions I had participated in, so I could check to see if all of these discussions had been concluded, or if there were new comments that required answers. I see no way to find this list of discussions I had participated in any more.

In the old forum, there used to be a history of FORUMs I had participated in while my browser remained open. I see no such way to find this list of FORUMs any more.

The camera icon is greyed out, I cannot attach/include a picture to my posts any more.

johnrellis

Legend

dj_paige wrote: In the old forum, there used to be a way to call up a list of discussions I had participated in, so I could check to see if all of these discussions had been concluded, or if there were new comments that required answers.

It's buried:

Click the person icon in the upper-right (hovering over it will show your name, in case you don't have a personal photo in your profile).
Click View Profile.
Click Content > Discussions to see threads you've started or replied to.
Click Authored, Participated, or Following in the left column.

StumpyBloke

Participant

Who designed this latest monstrosity? The layout is beyond amateurish and you need a magnifying glass to read anything. I don't think Adobe could have done a worse job! Its embarrassing!

CarlosCanto

Community Expert

StumpyBloke wrote:

...I don't think Adobe could have done a worse job! Its embarrassing!

you don't think? wait till next "upgrade"...they're very consistent, next upgrade will be worst.

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Samoreen

Inspiring

john beardsworth wrote:

OK, there's good progress in not being forced to sign in every time, but there's some way to go. We're missing:

1. Number of posts in a thread

2. Indication of most recent contributor to a thread

I would add : "Mark forum read".

--Patrick

davidc1815

Legend

I can't sign in with Internet Explorer 11 - fine with Firefox and Chrome, no go with Internet Explorer 11. Any one else seeing this?

Trevor.Dennis

Community Expert

nickna12 wrote:

I can't sign in with Internet Explorer 11 - fine with Firefox and Chrome, no go with Internet Explorer 11. Any one else seeing this?

Same here. I moved to Firefox from IE11 after the last upgrade, but tried IE11 again to see if any of the missing features worked over there. Like you, I was unable to sign in at all.

dj_paige

Legend

Unless I am missing it somewhere, it is now impossible to view page 2 and page 3 and all previous pages of the forum! A major omission! This makes browsing the forum relatively useless.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

John,

At least in the Detail view (shown as Chi'en/Qián or Heaven trigram, or maybe just three lines), you can see the number of posts.

I am afraid the latest poster feature is lost (unless a customization is made, if at all possible).

John Waller

Community Expert

I am afraid the latest poster feature is lost (unless a customization is made, if at all possible).

I really hope not.

It's one of the most useful features to make the forums useable.

We also seem to have lost the ability to jump straight to the most recent post in any thread.

john beardsworth

Author

Community Expert

While I do ask questions, I am mainly helping others here. I usually scan the number of posts to a thread and the most recent poster to see if there's new activity, and jump to the most recent post (thanks for reminding me of that John W). If the lack of this information means I have to go clicking into every thread I'm watching.... it's not going to happen, or at least it's eating into the time/effort I might give to the forum.

"Chi'en/Qián or Heaven trigram" - huh?

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