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jcbluesman
Inspiring
January 27, 2009
Question

Will someone at Adobe please fix the search function on the Forums? It's been several weeks they've

  • January 27, 2009
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For weeks now in the Fireworks forum, when I search for anything, I get:

Variable FTVAR_RESULTTYPE is undefined.
Resources:
* Enable Robust Exception Information to provide greater detail about the source of errors. In the Administrator, click Debugging & Logging > Debug Output Settings, and select the Robust Exception Information option.
* Check the ColdFusion documentation to verify that you are using the correct syntax.
* Search the Knowledge Base to find a solution to your problem.
Browser Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3
Remote Address 10.172.32.24
Referrer http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/categories.cfm
?forumid=14&catid=193&STARTPAGE=3&FTVAR_FORUMVIEWTMP=Linear
Date/Time 07-Jan-09 05:23 PM

Other people are reporting the same problem and it's been this way for weeks now.

I must say that as a paying customer, I expect better from a company like Adobe.
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    Kath-H
    Kath-H
    Inspiring
    February 24, 2009
    Just as no-one can say for sure that declining forum usage is related to the forum format over here. Is it possible to find out whether more people use NNTP 'over there' than 'over here'? Or whether usage is declining at a similar rate?
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    Neil_Keller
    Known Participant
    February 24, 2009
    Murray,

    There is no incentive for me to deeply explore the MM forums by Web, simply because they are so uninviting in their structure (I'm being kind.) You simply bypass the mess with NNTP.

    Neil
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    _Phos_four_dots_
    Known Participant
    February 23, 2009
    > "And since Adobe took over MM, MM seems to be the company who bought Adobe."

    If that were the case, new versions of Freehand would be in production, thereby effectively shutting done 85% of all the whinging posts by JET in the Illustrator forums.

    ;) XD
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    Anonymous
    February 23, 2009
    The MM forums have always been bad which is why most of the members use NNTP.

    And since Adobe took over MM, MM seems to be the company who bought Adobe.
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    _Murray_Summers_
    Participating Frequently
    February 24, 2009
    > The MM forums have always been bad which is why most of the members use
    > NNTP.

    That's nonsense. Most of the members who use NNTP use it because of its
    simplicity and its speed, not because of any particular bad trait of the web
    forums. If the current Adobe forums were significantly different than the
    old MM ones, you would find a different attitude, but they are not....


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    Murray
    BobLevine
    Community Expert
    BobLevineCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    February 24, 2009
    You know I'm an NNTP fan, but neither you nor anyone else can say for
    sure why each user has chosen to use it.

    Bob
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    JayJhabrix
    Inspiring
    February 23, 2009
    The most unnerving thing about this whole makeover is yanking support for NNTP.

    I basically frequent the Illustrator and DW fora. For AI, i use the web access as the volume is fairly low. For DW, i use the NNTP as volume is high and it's far easier to mark and follow threads you're interested in...

    FWIW, a lot of serious contributors in the DW forum have explicitly stated that they will be out of the DW forum if it stops NNTP support. In which case, i think, we'll lose a great resource. I am also sure that a lot of contributors will drop out of the other fora such as AI, PS, etc., etc...

    Cheers...

    JJ
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    jcbluesmanAuthor
    Inspiring
    January 28, 2009
    Sorry about the mistake with your name, Ramón. I hadn't realized I did that.
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    Neil_Keller
    Known Participant
    January 28, 2009
    pj,

    ???

    Neil
    PJonesCET
    PJonesCET
    Participating Frequently
    January 28, 2009
    Before adobe was supposed to have purchased Macromedia, websites rendered very Fast. After the take over (I'm now unsure whom to over whom) which which moved over to ColdFusion designed pages, have gotten slower and slower.

    I don't know if they plan to or not, But my hope, is that they do not.
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    _Phos_four_dots_
    Known Participant
    January 28, 2009
    IIRC, what they tried to do was a custom configuration of the WebX software so that it looked and behaved like the FuseTalk-based forums.

    IMNSHO, there are at least 3 things wrong with that proposal, right from the start, before it even goes live.
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    D__McCahill
    Known Participant
    January 28, 2009
    > I don't know where the comment about ColdFusion product managers wanting to use that platform for all forums comes from, I've never heard that internally.

    That was a guess on my part, John, based on normal corporate mindthink, and I apologize if it is in error in Adobe's case.

    I too am surprised that the aborted conversion was actually to this software. The UI changes made me think it was actually the other way around.
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