What About Moderators in the New Forum?

>I understand it should be unique,

no it shouldn't. only the login id NEEDS to be unique...

Exactly. I just checked and sure enough, nothing there to indicate a linkage.

On a related note, is there anyway to change your display name? I understand it should be unique, I'm just not sure if my current one is what I'd like to use. Not a huge deal, I'd live with it, but I figured since it's not my login it might be possible.

It would confirm that you remember your login info from that side, in order to link it to this side, but no, it wouldn't confirm that it is actually linked to this side.

That will confirm your Adobe ID, but not whether it is in fact linked to the one you use here - or am I even more confused than I thought? ;)

I wish that were possible also. What we've been told is that once it's done, it's invisible to the user. It would be nice tho, if there were a way to cross check it. I'd like it if it were possible to have it displayed as one of the elements that users can see in their profile, but I don't know whether it's technically possible. The question can certainly be asked tho.

> At any rate, is there way to verify it at our end?

Log into the Dreamweaver forum and you can verify it.

>At any rate, is there way to verify it at our end? It'd be nice to have that peace of mind.

Agreed.

Actually, on that note: how does one double-check that they've managed to link their user here with an Adobe ID?

The first umpteen dozen times I tried to do this the login to the Adobe ID would time out -- something I frankly get quite a lot when I try to login anytime with my Adobe ID. I'm not sure what's going on there.

I just tried to link my users here a few minutes ago and got the same time out. So I opened another window and tried logging in manually somewhere else. On my fourth or fifth try (after double-checking the password with the 'forgot your password?' function) it went through. Satisfied I had the right user/pass combo, I went back to the timed out page and hit fresh. It came up with some window asking to confirm I wanted to login with my (correct) Adobe ID and I said 'confirm'. So I *think* I'm linked, but I don't see any visual cue. At least, it doesn't ask me when I login anymore.

At any rate, is there way to verify it at our end? It'd be nice to have that peace of mind. Also, it'd be nice if I could find out why I timeout 90% of the time I try to login with my Adobe ID -- is it just that overloaded with users logging in?

Don, Oz was saying that posts from here that haven't been linked to an Adobe ID before the consolidation will end up with a generic "guest" attribution as the user name in the new forum set up.

Oz: Am I missing something here? How does a guest make a post ... I thought you have to log in to have post access?