Logging into Adobe Forums is confusing at best.

A siiiiiiggggghhhh, because it's been explained, right here in this sub-sub-forum, about 3 or 4 times, in 3 or 4 slightly different ways.

Read first, then post, please.

(And THANK YOU, Ozpeter, for your continued patience and reiteration.)

The new forums combine two sets of forums, namely these and the former Macromedia forums. If there's an Ozpeter on both sets of forums (two different people) obviously there's a problem. But the Adobe ID names are unique - there's only one Goodlooking. The Ozpeter on the Macromedia forum might have an Adobe ID of "Ugly". So long as Macromedia Ozpeter links his Macromedia forum name to his Adobe ID "Ugly", we'll end up in the new forums with a whole lot of imported posts by "Goodlooking" (me) and a whole lot of posts by "Ugly" (him).

BTW all names are fictional to protect the guilty.

Why the sigh?

there's no sighing involved phos. there's no reason for unique names here if the adobe logon id that the nickname is tied to is unique. all it's going to do is cause arguments and ill will.

siiiiiigggggghhhhh.....

Ozpeter wrote:

>The name you use here cannot necessarily be used there
>(never mind why, just take it as read).

No, I would like to know why. Who was the genius that said this couldn't be possible? If everybody has a unique ID / username on the old forums, that should be able to map to the new forum no matter the software. The developers behind the scenes have the talent and know-how to make that happen.

So, my question remains: why do I have to use a new nickname?

Now the question is: are you, Oz?

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b7c503 has the explanation.

However, I can give you a short version -

These forums are being migrated to new forum software, which should make you happy.

The name you use here cannot necessarily be used there (never mind why, just take it as read). You'll need to use your Adobe ID name (the name you used to register your software) to log into the new forums instead. If you don't have such an Adobe ID name, you'll have to create one.

The new system needs to be able to match up your Adobe ID name with your forum name from here, so that previous posts from here imported into the new system can be displayed under your Adobe ID name, the name you'll use in the new system. That's why, having logged in here, you were asked to say what your Adobe ID name is, for the system's future reference.

If you choose not to provide the information, your old posts will be shown as having been submitted by "Guest" because the new system will not know otherwise.

Here's an example.

My forum name here is Ozpeter.

My Adobe ID is Goodlooking.

I've provided the requested information (to say that forum user name "Ozpeter" is the same person as Adobe ID name "Goodlooking"). So when you read this post in the new forums, it will be shown as having been posted by user "Goodlooking". And if I log onto the new forum using "Goodlooking" (as I must, that being my Adobe ID), and add another post to this discussion, it too will be shown as having been written by "Goodlooking" as well as this post. So everything will tie up neatly.

(For a short version, that was, admittedly, long).