Favorite Forums

Just a test.

Maybe I misunderstand the problem of navigating to Favorite Forums.  But why not just bookmark the forum you want to visit, click and you are there?

No navigation problems.

Great. How do you do that?

All the indented links for threads. The way that the the posts in a thread would get collapsed down and hidden, so you'd have to expand the thread each time, etc.

Also, the worst thing about them, is how unconstructive they are. Everyone that wants to vent about Adobe comes here to do so, which makes browsing them frustrating. Better if people would just share their problems and tips.

Anyway, lets stay on topic.

Well, actually I'm happy with the new forums. I avoided the old ones because the navigation seemed so chaotic and the threads were difficult to read.

Anyway, back to the thread topic. Pinned forums in the history or favorites in the "Your stuff" would be great.

It would also be nice if the reply field was already on the page without requiring one more slow page load.

Also nice would be if the forum remembered where you were last time you read a post so you could scroll right to the unread messages.

Also nice would a lot less clutter all over the screen. I don't need to see avatars or how long someone's been on the forum. Even less useful is the More Like This section which I'll bet nobody uses more than once, since it's so awful.

Also nice would be the ability to use my browser's spelling checker instead of having to load the forum's slow. clunky one that doesn't have my custom dictionary in it. What the fuck were they thinking when they put that in there?

We had all of these features, and much more, in the old forums. But the assholes in Adobe's marketing department, who are obviously trying to run the company into the ground, felt the forum needed better visual branding to make it look more Adobe-esque. I guess that means as crappy as they've made Illustrator in the last eight years.

The new forums are a total, craptacular failure. There's less debate about that among forum regulars then there is about global warming or evolutions among scientists. In the last six or seven years I have seen Adobe make dumber and dumber mistakes and show less interest in correcting them or even acknowledging them, than in any other company, including Microsoft (MS even let HP keep selling PSc with WXP until 2010, a full two versions below what they expect to then sell themselves).

Remember that this is the same company that's fully satisfied with the program icons in the entire suite; that thinks the last six versions of Illustrator were ready to ship when they did; that thinks the installer for CS4 is an improvement over CS3, which was an improvement over CS2; and that the Adobe updater is not a huge annoying bucket of shit.

Basically, we're screwed.

Edit: Censoring's new. Don't really care about that, but why did they bleep "b u c k e t"?