Cross Platfrom Forums

Report · Dec 18, 2011

With the photoshop forum going cross platform others will surly follow.

In many cases the platform will not make any difference in the answer. However, problems with third party sofware and misc. hardware can make a difference.

So, is is possible to have a couple of generic boxes added to each reply window the has a check mark for Mac or Windows? May be less confusing.

Report · Dec 18, 2011

What adobe or Jive could do is when clicking start discusion require each person to specify:

Computer Mac, PC, Linux

System OSX, Windows7, XP, SUSE

Type Computer: Intel, PPC.

And not, be able to start the question until filled out. Then the information is posted with the question.

Then that way PC people won't waste their effort answering for a Mac User. Or Mac Person won't try to answer on a PC question.

THis is the only way it would work.

Report · Dec 19, 2011

My experience in the now merged Illustrator forum has been as follows, in addition to what I said in the first post:

Round the time the fair forums ended I spent all my time in this forum.

When I returned to the merged version of my (main) native forum, Illustrator, I found that most posters were unknown to me, and there was a harsher tone, seemingly well established among them; within the first (half) year or so, things settled in a friendlier way, and now the general attitude is much as I remember it from the days of the (unmerged) fair forums.

There has never ever been any unfriendliness over Win/Mac use.

The daily number of posts is about twice the number I was used to, maybe even a bit more. I have been at least twice as busy posting.

Hardly any posts go unanswered; in some threads, the OP never returns or returns after a long time, but that is no hindrance for the native pursuing the matter way past the original issue.

There is time for, and threads dedicated to, chat and friendly banter.

I came from the former Win tribe, and lost many friends over the change because they simply stopped posting; some have returned, some of those only posting from time to time. My impression has been that those from the former Mac tribe just carried on in greater numbers.

I am fully aware that this experience is very specific and may be fundamentally different from what may be seen in other forums.

Report · Dec 19, 2011

Jacob Bugge wrote

This describes my expectations for the merged Ps forum well.

Report · Dec 23, 2011

Curt, and others,

I believe there are genuine differences between forums, but here are a few links just to show how a thread in the merged Illustrator forum may be (in all but one the posters are from both former Win and Mac tribes, mostly the latter, I think; and as you can see the continued presence of the OP is far from necessary):

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4061199

(4 helpers)

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4038527

(5 helpers)

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3629270

(9 helpers)

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2005833

(pastime with 9 participants)

http://forums.adobe.com/message/3550083

(4 helpers)

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4061199

(and one of the longer answers, but not the longest)

Report · Dec 24, 2011

I can see that there are differences between forums.

In the days of the fair forums, long before anyone had heard of points, there was a rush be be first, either with a joke or an answer, the latter just for the sport of it.

I hope everyone will have a nice evening. It is a quarter past nine (PM) over here.