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Kath-H
Kath-H
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May 15, 2009
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Small niggles

  • May 15, 2009
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As requested, a thread for annoying little things that we hope can be easily fixed - not the biggies like failing to go back to where you last read, being logged out mid-post, lack of NNTP etc - just niggly little things.

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    Correct answer

    http://forums.adobe.com/message/2007641#2007641

    Sorry folks, but word has come down from above that abuse of the point system is counter-productive. There are management types that actually believe some users see points as an incentive to provide a quality answer, and that they wouldn't do so without the points, but that's not a widely held opinion among hosts. Nevertheless, I have to lock the thread, and warn you that at some point there will be official sanctions for those who post threads with the sole purpose of gaming the point system.

    "official sanctions"? like what the h@#$ll do they think they can do? you can't lock out people making death threats and you think you're going to f@%k people over for gaming the f@#$ing points system?!!

    YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME PEOPLE WHO HAVE HELPED ADOBE FOR FREE WITH THEIR TIME AND EXPERTISE FOR YEARS!!!

    F**#K YOU!!!

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    Anonymous
    May 28, 2009

    When I skimmed over this page I thought the title said "Small nipples"

    J
    JayJhabrix
    Inspiring
    May 28, 2009

    Buko. wrote:

    When I skimmed over this page I thought the title said "Small nipples"

    10 points to you! Unfortunately, i'm not the one giving out the points

    Kath-H
    Kath-HAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 28, 2009

    Sorry, I'm not giving out 10 points, people might think it's all fixed

    S_D_A_
    S_D_A_
    Inspiring
    May 28, 2009

    My niggles;


    • Make spell checker choice a sticky (presently it's not)
    • Forum listing defaults to 30, doesn't remember choice if set to something else. This should also "stick".


    That's it for now.

    A
    Anonymous
    May 22, 2009

    Did somebody already mention that, when you click Reply, the text insertion point defaults to the title and not to the text box?


    Well if they did, I've said it again.  

    A
    Anonymous
    May 18, 2009

    Can we fix this? I see it at the bottom of the screen:

    Adobe Forums powered by Jive Software's Clearspace ® 2.5.7

    J
    JayJhabrix
    Inspiring
    May 18, 2009

    Ansury wrote:

    Adobe Forums powered by Jive Software's Clearspace ® 2.5.7

    Clicked that link... very funny, Adobe is not listed amongst their top clients...Opens up a whole lot of thoughts...

    jive_clientlist.gif

    1/ Have they sold Adobe a lemon?

    2/ Did Adobe stinge and buy an outdated version?

    3/ Do they consider Adobe unimportant or did they know this was going to be a disaster from word go because of points 1 and 2 above as well as variations, combinations and unthought of as yet reasons

    4/ Your inputs welcome

    PS: Among a whole lot of other excreta, moving the cursor around in the reply window stinks.

    Zeno Bokor
    Zeno Bokor
    Inspiring
    May 18, 2009
    2/ Did Adobe stinge and buy an outdated version?

    maybe it wasn't when they started to move but it sure is now.

    Version used here: 2.5.7

    Version on the Jive forums: 3.0.1

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Legend
    May 17, 2009

    This is from another forum I frequent, and I find it most useful, even though the Back button works perfectly there....

    Would be great to have it here.

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Legend
    May 18, 2009

    Claudio González wrote:

    This is from another forum I frequent, and I find it most useful, even though the Back button works perfectly there....

    Páginas.jpg

    Would be great to have it here.

    Well, the corresponding bar in these forums was changed to this at least since yesterday:

    Excellent, and I would like to think this was a result of my request, although I doubt it (too soon).

    Zeno Bokor
    Zeno Bokor
    Inspiring
    May 18, 2009

    only problem left with that is that it's smallish, it would be easier to use if it were a bit bigger

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    Anonymous
    May 16, 2009

    Here are two minor niggles:


    1.  In the reply box, if I want to add text at the beginning of a message, I insert the cursor there but often it immediately jumps to the end of the text.


    2. Sometimes, in the middle of composing a piece of immortal prose, the whole reply box becomes un-editable. I have to switch to HTML view and back to unlock it.

    Kath-H
    Kath-HAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 17, 2009

    I experience 1) quite often, not 2) so far.

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Legend
    May 17, 2009

    Same here. Writing here was not straightforward.

    Kath-H wrote:

    I experience 1) quite often, not 2) so far.

    J
    JayJhabrix
    Inspiring
    May 16, 2009

    Kath-H wrote:

    As requested, a thread for annoying little things that we hope can be easily fixed - not the biggies like failing to go back to where you last read, being logged out mid-post, lack of NNTP etc - just niggly little things.

    Don't be ridiculous... they won't (or can't) fix major issues and you think they're worried about niggles?

    J
    Jochem van Dieten
    Inspiring
    May 16, 2009

    Kath-H wrote on 2009-05-15 16:54:

    As requested, a thread for annoying little things that we hope can be easily fixes - not the biggies like failing to go back to where you last read, being logged out mid-post, lack of NNTP etc - just niggly little things.

    Email notification:

    1. "This message was sent to: Jochem van Dieten" is some garbage text

    that should go away.

    2. "If you post by replying to this email, be sure to leave the

    square-bracketed text at the end of the subject line as it is. This will

    help ensure that your message is posted correctly." may have been valid

    at some point, but isn't now.

    3. "end" even more garbage that should go away.

    4. The line of hyphens at to distinguish between content and signature.

    We do have a recognized signature delimiter for that: "-- ". If the

    system were to use that my email client would recognize the signature

    and not include it in the response quote.

    5. The system breaks relative paths in messages when messages are

    quoted. (I.e. a link to http://forums.adobe.com/message/1965671 will be

    reduced to /message/1965671 when quoted enough times.)

    Email responses:

    6. The removal of quoted text is unreliable. What is worse, it is

    undocumented.

    7. If I quote one level deep (lines starting with "> ", such as at the

    top here) it is shown as a quote in the web interface. If I quote deeper

    (lines starting with ">> ") the display in the web interface is messed up.

    8. Attachments are only allowed on the original message in a thread.

    9. Error messages from the Jive system are unhelpfull, whatever the

    real problem is, you will always get an error the address doesn't exist.

    Webservices interface:

    10. It is impossible to look up a userID based on a username.

    11. If I download a thread through the webservices, it isn't counted as

    a view of that thread in the web interface.

    12. There is no documentation for the HTML that is allowed in messages,

    nor for the way it should be escaped.

    13. The login API is broken and the workaround we have is needlessly

    complicated because the Adobe site doesn't return valid XHTML that can

    be parsed by Flex.

    Web interface:

    Don't know, I try not to use it.

    Jochem

    --

    Jochem van Dieten

    http://jochem.vandieten.net/

    I
    Ildhund
    Inspiring
    May 16, 2009

    Adding to Jochem's litany about email notifications:

    The email clients I'm familiar with will ignore 'Re: ' at the start of a subject line when sorting by subject. That way, a message

    and any replies to it - even if their subject lines start with 'Re: Re: Re: ' - will be grouped together. This doesn't happen with

    Jive email notifications because the 'Re: ' falls in the /middle/ of the subject line, /after/ the name of the forum. Consequence:

    OPs end up at the top and bottom of a subject-sorted list of posts, with responses in the middle. I can think of two easy ways to

    put this right:

    (a) Put the forum name at the end of the subject line, not at the start;

    (b) Drop the 'Re: ' from responses, thus leaving sorting to the time stamp.

    Either of these options - quick and dirty fixes - would make it much easier to use email as an NNTP substitute until they get round

    to inserting proper reference or In-Reply-To: headers.

    --

    Noel

    Kath-H
    Kath-HAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 16, 2009

    Huge text in topic titles and 'Sticky Topics'. Surely that's a quick fix?

    J
    JayJhabrix
    Inspiring
    May 16, 2009

    Mmmm.... Giggles?

    A
    Anonymous
    May 16, 2009

    What's this then?  It's in thes thread:  http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419918?tstart=0

    Kath-H
    Kath-HAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 16, 2009

    Not seeing it in the thread.

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    Anonymous
    May 16, 2009

    If your scrolling finger's fit, it appears at post 29.

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