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forum software

Forum|Forum|14 years ago
May 13, 2011
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Let's get some forum software which allows you to quote somebody. You know - like every civilized bulletin board on the internet.

You need to be able to quote somebody in order to give comments the obvious context and background they have - this is important for internet communication. And internet communication is a big part of the value of this software. So, let's get it working.

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Claudio González

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A Back button that takes one back.

A message box that doesn't fill the whole screen (I seem to recall having read that the height was supposed to be resizable and the change should stick, but the "sticking" was broken).

A decently working Search engine.

Just a few of the things we have been complaining from the beginning.

John T Smith

Community Expert

This "Jive Software's Clearspace ® 2.5.16" certainly has it's share of errors, but I do agree with one comment, in that I am able to read and post

A newer version with fewer bugs would certainly be nice... as long as that newer version does not cause the servers to "overload" and stop working

Phillip M Jones

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John T Smith wrote:
This "Jive Software's Clearspace ® 2.5.16" certainly has it's share of errors, but I do agree with one comment, in that I am able to read and post
A newer version with fewer bugs would certainly be nice... as long as that newer version does not cause the servers to "overload" and stop working

Maybe that's the reason for keeping the buggy software. They don't have enough servers and afraid if they have something that works as it should, everything will blow up.

Noel Carboni

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This forum software is the devil we know.

I shudder to think what we may have to go through with a new release.

Here's hoping the bugs will be as easily worked-around as with this one.

-Noel

Claudio González

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Noel Carboni wrote:
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Here's hoping the bugs will be as easily worked-around as with this one.
-Noel

No, please, not as with this one. Hopefully, as with the previous version, in which bugs were fixed in days, or weeks at the most...

Captiv8r

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Claudio González wrote:
No, please, not as with this one. Hopefully, as with the previous version, in which bugs were fixed in days, or weeks at the most...

It's worth remembering that the single largest factor in the last upgrade was to combine a diverse user base and present a common forum platform for ALL Adobe products. Certainly when Claudio was using whatever the last incarnation was, there was a smaller user base that would be impacted with possible bug fixes. Not to mention that as a very general rule, when something is smaller, it is more nimble and more easily managed.

Cheers... Rick

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Anonymous

ooh! i hope they're upgrading to webcrossing's software!

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Anonymous

my gawd these forums are slow. wow. really really dog slow compared to the rest of the 2011 internet. just sayin. you know?

Phillip M Jones

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Old news. Ee've only known th

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Bob_Peters

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therealdobro wrote:
Let's get some forum software.

That's a great idea!

John T Smith

Community Expert

When you reply, look at the command list just above where you start typing

You want to click the command icon that looks like a "thought balloon" with a quote mark on the right side

Also... just put your mouse pointer on one of the command icons for a few seconds and there will be a tool-tip popup

Paul_FergusonAuthor

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John T Smith wrote:
When you reply, look at the command list just above where you start typing
You want to click the command icon that looks like a "thought balloon" with a quote mark on the right side
Also... just put your mouse pointer on one of the command icons for a few seconds and there will be a tool-tip popup

Yes, thanks - that enables me to quote your message, but in my browser, I can't choose which elements of that message I want to quote - I have to quote the whole thing. Also, sometimes it's useful to be able to break a quote up into different parts so that you can respond to each part separately. This particular forum software is clunky.

Claudio González

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You can always delete the parts you don't want to quote. And you can always use the quote tool as many times as you want, deleting different parts of the message each time... Like this:

therealdobro wrote:
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John T Smith wrote:
When you reply, look at the command list just above where you start typing
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Yes, thanks - that enables me to quote your message...

therealdobro wrote:
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Also, sometimes it's useful to be able to break a quote up into different parts so that you can respond to each part separately. This particular forum software is clunky.

~graffiti

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therealdobro wrote:
Let's get some forum software which allows you to quote somebody. You know - like every civilized bulletin board on the internet.

You mean like this?

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