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Anonymous
May 7, 2012
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Vastly improved and easily customizable in Firefox

  • May 7, 2012
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The new forum is a vast improvement in terms of performance—it screams in comparison to the Jive molasses we had been putting up with and it's very easily customizable in Firefox through a number of scripts and AdBlock Plus.

The images below show what a customized topic index page and an customized open thread page look like in Firefox 3.6.28 (the last Firefox release to support a Power Mac PPC) look like, respectively.  OS is 10.4.11.

 

 

These are very welcome changes.

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    Jacob Bugge
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    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 8, 2012

    station one,

    I have been against customizing, preferring to know what others saw, but your screenshots look very tempting, quite a bit like the fair forums that fell into the abyss just over three years ago.

    So maybe when the dust has settled, if it is not offered as a one click/default solution (maybe it would be more likely to see the sun rise in the west).

    What did you actually do (I have Firefox 12 so it should be possible there, too)?

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
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    May 8, 2012

    Jacob, what are you seeing in the screen grabs up above that isn't what you're seeing when you're browsing the forum directly?

    I'm using a lower zoom level than what station_one has shown, but I don't sense the customization.

    -Noel

    Jacob Bugge
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    Jacob BuggeCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    May 8, 2012

    Noel,

    It is rather the reverse, what is absent from the screenshots which only contain the core matter.

    The forum/thread takes up about 5/7 of the space to the left, the 2/7 to the right contains

    Thread:

    A row of buttons starting with facebook,

    Actions,

    More like this,

    Bookmarked by.

    Forum:

    Actions,

    Notifications,

    Popular discussions,

    Top participants.

    The OP screenshots led me to believe, maybe wrongly, that it was easy to get the forum/thread to fill the whole screen, and get rid of the other stuff.

    PECourtejoie
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    PECourtejoieCommunity Expert
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    May 7, 2012

    It's still Running on Jive, R.

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    Anonymous
    May 7, 2012

    Thanks for the timely reminder, but I think everyone realizes the forums are still running on Jive.  That's no surprise.

    The performance, however, is better than what was being delivered by Jive under the old design, comparable to the best performance observed before Adobe switch to Jive a few years ago.  In some of the other threads Adobe staff was saying that performance gains were expected due to less excess baggage, and they are right.  Pages load faster now.

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    Anonymous
    May 7, 2012

    In connection with the subject of customization, I'll note the intrusive scripts that I've managed to block with the Ghostery add-on:

     

    This has also helped with some performance issues and it does away with some annoying twitter pop=ups discussed in another thread.

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    Anonymous
    May 7, 2012

    Also worth noting, the Advanced Editor is back when you edit a post. 

      

    Noel Carboni
    Noel Carboni
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    May 7, 2012

    Interesting.  Can't say I've noticed any speed improvement.  With IE9 it was interactive for me before, and it's still interactive.

    -Noel

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    Anonymous
    May 7, 2012

    Remaining to be fixed are a few things already noted elsewhere:

    • the User Bar breaking up in the open thread page;

    • badly needed sequential post numbers;

    • an indication of which post is being replied to;

    etc.

    In all, very satisfying.   

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