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Phos_four_dots
Inspiring
April 14, 2009
Question

Most of us read left-to-right...

  • April 14, 2009
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...And by putting the Author of a thread starter in the left-most column of the thread index page it seems to me that the natural emphasis is focused on the wrong thing.

The important thing is the Subject, and it should be given that position.

In fact, I don't even care who starts a thread; I wouldn't even need to see that until I open the thread.

Further, I'd rather not see a column dedicated to the authors of posts at all. I'd rather see their names on a line beneath the title of the thread or the reply.

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    Bob_Peters
    Inspiring
    April 14, 2009

    There are many work-arounds/tricks/style-sheets, etc, that a number of posters have come up with.  The problem with all of them is that those 'fixes' don't work for everyone.

    Someone needs to 'beat' on the Wizards at Jive Software so that we, the users, have some control about the layout.  If that can't be done then Adobe is betting on the wrong horse.

    Phillip M Jones
    Phillip M Jones
    Inspiring
    April 14, 2009

    I tried the link below submit product Feedback it went to clearspace. But only allow designers or Companies to reply, not end users.

    Zeno Bokor
    Zeno Bokor
    Inspiring
    April 14, 2009

    i'd say abandon the normal forum view and set up your own, something like this. It also loads faster than having to reload every forum that i visit in a new tab

    Phos_four_dots
    Phos_four_dotsAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 14, 2009

    See, that's cool and all, for the people who CAN do that, or for those who know about it, or even know how to do it once they're aware of it...shoot, I'm pretty savvy and resourceful, but I need help with some of that stuff.

    The problem is the default view for all the people who CAN'T do that, don't know about it, don't know how to do it.

    The thing is, none of us should HAVE to fuss with scripts and workarounds, and deep fiddley configurations like that.

    It's counterintuitive, it's bad UI, it's off-putting to all these new visitors Adobe is hoping will be more pleased with the new, "modernized" forum software. And it's especially bad to the thousands of us who got used to the speed and efficiency of the older WebX format.

    Zeno Bokor
    Zeno Bokor
    Inspiring
    April 14, 2009

    my point is that while true, it takes a bit of time to set up, once it's done you won't ever want to go back to normal forum view as it's much more streamlined this way. It also doesn't require any scripting, you just go to the forums main page, chose Your View, click on personalize and and drag in a couple of Recent Discussions widgets that you then set up to monitor the forums you're interested in(and optionally pick a layout). The only major change that i made in there was to remove the fixed width to give me more space to work with.

    I wonder though how easy/hard it would be to move the column with the thread creator between replies and last post and also remove the his icon to get something like this. It sure would look better but heck knows how this stuff is implemented under the hood

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