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New Look?

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May 6, 2012
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Hm-m, seems that we have a "new look" in the forums, as of Sunday, May 06, 2012 @ ~ 2:30PM PDT.

Not sure that I like it, but time will tell. Most of us have just "rolled with the punches," and accepted all changes.

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Correct answer john_cornicello__retired_

Getting rid of a lot of excess code should help speed things up. These are the new skins that the forum announcements were referring to last week.

Semaphoric

Community Expert

New look, and a newer look . . .

I was wondering about the grey folks were talking about here. Everything was a rather sparse white for me. Then I refreshed my browser, and BAM! it's grey. Too weird.

the_wine_snobAuthor

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Looks like things might be changing, as I type.

Now, it appears that new, or updated threads, are not bothering to show at all. One must look at the date/time, and then calculate when they last viewed a product forum.

Not a good thing!

Sometimes, I wonder why I even bother to try and help in the Adobe product forums. Adobe, and Jive, seem to want to make it more difficult, with each change. What is the "end game?" Does Adobe want us to all just go away?

Does Adobe want things to focus only on the Community Help, and for the forums to die?

Sorry, but I am becoming much more frustrated with some of these changes.

Good luck to all, but I think that I might just retire from here too.

Bad move Adobe!

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Kami_Bambiraptor

Participating Frequently

Eccchhhhh. Even more wasted space.

I think I'm gone, not that it matters.

Powered_by_Design

Inspiring

I also argee that I dont like the new forum look.

Its funny how on the right there is still Points for Correct and Helpfull answers but nowhere to see what people have. Not that I even cared about it but thought it was funny. Maybe im missing something.

Like Bill said I to liked seeing posing info of people.

This version needs work.

GLenn

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excited_Genie16B8

Legend

This version needs work.

Oh yeah!.

Anybody else not like the buttons on the left now. I mean, most of us are right handed. Why force us to drag the mouse across the screen now. They were fine where they were. Moving them won't speed load times, so why were they moved?

ProDesignTools

Community Expert

This reminds me of Google Reader's recent oversimplification... er I mean redesign. Most users didn't like it and still don't. Why water down and remove useful features like "reply to"?

Adobe software users are a pretty sophisticated bunch and typically things go in the opposite direction - providing more power and functionality over time.

There also seems to be more open/dead space around each post when viewed in Chrome... in Firefox things look better, though not sure why there is such a difference. <== Need to clear browser cache of previous content and this is fixed.

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Bob Ward

Inspiring

I definitely do not like the new look, especially the gray background - the reduced contrast (black on gray) makes it just a little harder to read text. Also, the separation between posts is not as obvious as it used to be.

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excited_Genie16B8

Legend

Agreed on all counts.

Noel Carboni

Legend

Jim Simon wrote:
Agreed on all counts.

With whom? We can no longer tell.

-Noel

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excited_Genie16B8

Legend

Hm-m, seems that we have a "new look"

OK, so I'm not seeing things. Not sure it's a good idea to stack the reply and other buttons vertically, though. That just wastes screen space and makes scrolling forums longer.

I noticed SPDY is also being used. That's a good thing. But the layout still needs work.

Chris Cox

Legend

Jim - the reply/mark stuff appears to be due to older cached CSS files. Relaunching the browser or clearing the cache and reloading the page seem to clean it up.

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excited_Genie16B8

Legend

Chris Cox wrote:
Relaunching the browser or clearing the cache and reloading the page seem to clean it up.

I got that. But now they're all the way over on the left. That's no good. Most folks are right handed, and will move the pointer off to the right while reading a page. So those buttons should go back in the lower right cornert, not the left.

Noel Carboni

Legend

I'll hold judgment on the new look and feel for a time, but I do have a question:

Where's the ''reply to xxxxxxx'' gone? It's no longer possible to see whose reply button a poster pressed. That was actually useful. Now we have to rely on people quoting others to know who they're addressing.

Is it me or has the font gotten a little smaller. I've been working hard all day on a book, so maybe it's just that my eyes are tired.

And I see that the editor font and the post font are different still... Just look at a lower case g to see the difference.

-Noel

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Bill,

It seems that we are getting closer to the way the fair forums looked. You may follow one of the links here to see, if you have forgotten:

http://www.bugge.com/Family-and-friends/Illy/Archive/Chat/chat.html

Phillip M Jones

Inspiring

It's Not a fix but I fixed the problem by use of an extension called NoSquint for SeaMonkey/FireFox. I set magnification of font to 85%. and Maganification for Full Zoom level 120%

I said it’s a Font issue and it is.

Phillip M Jones

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Don't need all this Gray I just posted a Problem showing this:

The titles should be smaller so that even the word Browse is beside history.

I think the folks designing the skins were PC only and didn't try them on Macs.

Had they created them on Macs then they would work on both.

John T Smith

Community Expert

If the new look means less overhead... ie-faster forum... I am in favor

As you say... roll with the punches

john_cornicello__retired_Correct answer

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Getting rid of a lot of excess code should help speed things up. These are the new skins that the forum announcements were referring to last week.

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Lee Jay

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John Cornicello wrote:
Getting rid of a lot of excess code should help speed things up. These are the new skins that the forum announcements were referring to last week.

Are "show most recent post" and tree view now considered "excess code"?

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