These are user-to-user help forums, the point of which is to get help as quickly as possible in as efficient a manner as possible. When someone is having a problem getting an image placed properly in their design, they don't give a shit at how pretty (or indeed how childish) a forum looks. I'd rather have it with as minimal amount of visual distraction as possible, just give me my answer, let me read all the replies I possibly can on one page without having to scroll endlessly or click "next page" too often, etc. Basically, from a design standpoint, keep it as efficient as the good ol' adobe forums. The content and its efficiency in delivering it is THE MOST important thing to someone who is desperately trying to get an answer to their problem.
Ann, John has said he doesn't want to get locked into overly customized software like this has turned out to be, so that he doesn't have the same problem with not being able to have it updated.
I am not asking for an "overly customized" interface just a plain unadorned, efficient, layout like we have now with no frilly space-wasting rubbish like: Avatars, self-serving "Community Expert" or Member's Status Labels, and Member's Profiles on the main page
It is like having to ask for a no coffee, no tea, no chocolate, no alcohol, no sugar, no protein, no colour, no smell, and no fizz, drink in order to to get plain water.
I simply cannot believe that your senses and intelligence are not seriously offended by the ugliness and unsuitability of the designs of both the Uncustomised and the pathetic attempts of Customization that this incompetent Vendor appears able to provide?
If anything is being defended it's what is. If software doesn't exists that does what you want it to do, what do you suggest we do about it? John and his team have chosen what appears to be the best solution to meet the need. The rest of us need to live with it. Bitching and moaning ain't gonna change it.
>If software doesn't exists that does what you want it to do, what do you suggest we do about it?
Referring to Adobe????
Writers of the benchmark complex image manipulation software called "Photoshop"?
And Illustrator? And InDesign? And all the rest of the company's collection of some of the world's most complex software?
Fred, how good were any of those programs in version one - which would be what any Adobe forum software would be? How famous is Adobe for rapid development in areas in which it doesn't have prior expertise? It's a nice thought that DIY would/should be possible, but it's not about to happen, I'm afraid.
>If software doesn't exists that does what you want it to do, what do you suggest we do about it?
Design a page layout to overlay their system or demand and insist that the Vendor does this if they wish to have Adobe's business. If it takes them six months to do what is necessary, just wait until they have completed the task AND you have fully tested it before moving the Forums to the new software.
Meanwhile the current system is working perfectly well enough so for the Adobe Forums so I see no reason to be in a hurry to make the change.
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