Yes, I know, Jacob. Thanks for your continued help in reminding me.
I have been thinking about what may happen with the localized forums once the fusion process is completed. In the specific case of the forums in Spanish, we have at present two completely different scenarios. One the one hand we have the formerly Adobe forums, now adobeforums.com. They are subdivied into five subforums, with titles that translate to: Acrobat and PDF format forum, Graphic creation for printing and the web forum (InDesign, PageMaker, Illustrator, GoLive, Creative Suite...), Digital video forum (Premiere, After Effects, Encore DVD, Audition), Digital imaging forum (Photoshop, Photoshop Elements and Album), and Other topics, plus a read only permanent topic on how to obtain help more easily and rapidly. Not very convenient, but somehow most newcomers seem to find the right forum for their questions. The whole forum is plagued by sentences and even whole pages in English or in very bad Spanish, and there are some obvious features missing. For example, there is no "Subscribe to this discussion by email" button at the bottom of the box for new messages (I have just noticed that this particular forum in English doesn't have this button either).
On the other hand we have the formerly Macromedia forums, now adobe.com, where we find just two forums in Spanish: Spain Support Foros (sic), with only one category: Spain General Discussion. And the Latin America Support Foros (sic), also with just one category: Latin America General Discussion. Not only are these forums names in a mixture of English and Spanish, but they are also misleading - in fact, there are footnotes in both saying that they "...are not an official customer support chanel for Adobe".
I don't know how this division (Spain - Latin America) arose, but it is absurd and completely unnecessary. As a matter of fact, the Latin American forum is almost a dying one, whereas you find many people from Spanish speaking countries in Latin America contributing regularly in the Spain forum.
I am hoping that the new localized forums will somehow copy or at least mimic the ones in English, but fear that we will just get one of the two existing ones: either the former Adobe, or the former Macromedia. If such were the case, I would choose without doubt the former Adobe ones -at least, they are not designed to be used through newsreaders as the ex Macromedia ones, which makes them almost impossible to use for someone visiting them through a browser. And however inconvenient their subdivision, it is by far better than having all applications under the same roof.
Unfortunately, it seems that full secrecy is the norm regarding the upcoming changes in both Adobe forums, so all we can do is speculate. And wait -for the best, or just wait?