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heavyboots
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March 18, 2009
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Why not a flex-width forum?

  • March 18, 2009
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I see it is easily possible--just look at Jive's forum!

Some major issue I see with the 700px or so size you're currently using.
* Code blocks are practically useless for indented code.
* Put it into threaded mode and have a good laugh at the 250px wide stuff columns by the time you get down to a 4th reply.
* You're already losing 240px to the annoying "Actions" right-hand column. People with theater-proportion screens could at least ameliorate this issue slightly.
* I believe you're using a large font than they are the Jive site, so your content already flows longer.
* It's frustrating to see 300-400px of dead space that I could really be using just sitting to the right of the forum.
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    Dirck
    Participating Frequently
    March 20, 2009
    Um, who buys the products if not the customers?
    PJonesCET
    PJonesCET
    Participating Frequently
    March 20, 2009
    What pays salaries are not the stuff of, customers. What pays the the salaries and line the pockets of The CEO and the BOD (board of Directors); is selling of products.

    Once the product is in the customers hot little hands, and they hold hands until 1 second after the 30 day warranty, they don't care anymore.

    They provide user forums sole to provide user to user Help and keep customers out their hair. This applies to all companies not just Adobe.

    So the type software used no difference to them to run a Forum. Just the cheapest they can get by with, is all that matters.
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    Anonymous
    March 19, 2009
    Unfortunately, they have bought off-the-shelf junk software and neither Adobe nor Jive seem to be prepared to put any effort into tailoring it to meet the requirements of us their Customers (the people who ultimately pay their salaries!).
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    Anonymous
    March 19, 2009
    Well, to be fair, that's a 790 post thread, so that's pretty decent really. Not to say that decent is the same as optimal!

    I'm still hoping they will manage to show only recent posts in the topic at some point ala this forum. But that firefight is in a different thread, lol...
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    Anonymous
    March 19, 2009
    Ten seconds!

    That is all right with you?

    It certainly isn't for me: the Adobe Forum pages normally load in under 2 seconds!
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    Anonymous
    March 19, 2009
    Hi Peter.

    Yeah, I do see what you mean, although to be honest it still only takes about 10s here to load, which is not too bad. In the final analysis though, I am just trying to strengthen my case that there should be some option to go flexi-width for users that want it. B)
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    Anonymous
    March 19, 2009
    Switch to threaded view in the new forum and bring up http://adobeforums.adobe.com/thread/295059?tstart=0 - go make some coffee, or even watch a nice strong cup of tea brew. You won't see pages (or at least I don't) - you see 700+ posts in one huge page.

    Now that could be because it's imported. Dunno. But threaded view is not good for that kind of thing.
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    Anonymous
    March 18, 2009
    >Threaded view is only viable for short threads - I think people will have problems if they leave that as their default. If you bring up a thread with hundreds or even thousands of posts, you have to wait quite a while for it to display the lot - then you have to scroll...

    Well, KathH's "OK the big one" thread is only 3 pages long (easily viewable in thread view imho) and it gets 10 replies deep (wow, I didn't realize they had gotten that deep that fast!).

    Just to note also that I wrote a long response in Bob's thread about why I don't think 550 is a readable width in a forum environment (or 300 wide by the time you get to the 10th reply or so).
    pbear*
    pbear*
    Known Participant
    March 18, 2009
    Flex-width even for messages without code, or flat view:
    b yes.
    (In case it gets lost where I noted it here: pbear, "My top ten criteria for the new forums" #121, 18 Mar 2009 9:27 am )
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    Anonymous
    March 18, 2009
    >. If you bring up a thread with hundreds or even thousands of posts, you have to wait quite a while for it to display the lot - then you have to scroll...

    maybe i missed it in preferneces, but it looked to me like you have to keep clicking "next page" "next page" "next page" to keep reading. it must be me.
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