Whoohoow! Forum Preview at its best!

[Guest]

Very clean, very nice.
Nice options for paragraph & text... attaching files, list goes on.
Hopefully and especially new users will behave and do not screw up the clean look with bunch of useless smilies, signatures and useles stuff.

My Fear: If possible, please Adobe keep people away from using signatures of ANY kind, it would just mess up the enire clean structure of a thread.
I'm really not interested in nonsense pictures or funny text footers - move this completely to the profiles where people can mess up in their own flat -_-

Thanks a bunch for your hard work. can't wait...

[John T Smith]

I think the look is "cleaner" here... but I can live with the new forum (not that there is any choice)

If there is anyone who simply can't stand the new forum... I guess they'll have to make their own

[Guest]

I think the new forum wastes space.

Makes it look like it was made for 1st graders

forces you to scroll over the same posts over and over when you go back to a thread!

Personally I think the new forum Sucks.

they probably could have done just as good a Job with phpbb. and that's free.

[PJonesCET]

Actually the Forums on my Association's website uses phpBB and looks better. It still allows for AVATARS but the length of the window is the same length of the avatar.

Example: if avatar is 120x100px (h/w), uses only 130px for smallest of window length.

[Guest]

The "new forum" did not even reached Beta!
So keep people at Adobe posted about the snaps and flaws that are bothering you.

Most important thing to mention at the very moment: the system has to work, bulletproof.

The more constructive the requests are, the more it will become more or less paint giving a nice contrasty picture.

as long as the creators do not use black or red background with white letters, i'll be fine ;)

PS: one thing is sure: Adobe need to get faster bandwidth! It's still a mess -_-

[Ramón G Castañeda]

Performance keeps deteriorating in the new forum preview. Hitting the Reply button, waiting for the text box to appear fully, typing (thick molasses in winter right there) and posting takes an eternity.

The look of the new forum, though vastly inferior to this one, I could live with. But the performance issues make it unusable ,

[Guest]

speed is #1.

the ability to jump into a thread at a "new for you" point would be gravy!

[D__McCahill]

> The "new forum" did not even reached Beta

I thought the posted sample was the "Beta"?

[John T Smith]

The main page of the preview SAYS that it is a test... anything posted is going to be thrown away at the end of the test

How is that not a Beta?

As far as speed... I will GUESS that one computer, not a server farm, is running the preview

I will also GUESS that the real thing will have more hardware resources and will be faster

I would prefer everything be moved to webx 'cause I like the look here... but as long as the new forum has the same speed as (usually) here, I can live with the new software

[Guest]

Having to scroll though endless posts to try and find where you left off is the dumbest thing. In my book that's a deal breaker.

[Guest]

>In my book that's a deal breaker.

it's certainly not a facilitator. i see many threads not seeing their full potential because of that.

[Guest]

ok, sorry, it's beta.
but i see a huge potential for the whole community.
especially the ability to add directly media content to your posts for easier explaination of a given problem.
also having a more flexible profile is great for posting Hard & Software information which prevents asking a user for setup over and over again.

The History option could be a little better for navigating content like last post. Adding feeds just for the actual thread also would be awesome.

Did not tested every little corner, but the fist few steps are promising.

etc. i can clearly see the benefits of the new forum.

[Guest]

[Guest]

>i see a huge potential for the whole community.

potential to alienate everyone.

[Guest]

i'm kinda familiar with that kind of forum, and i admit i'm lost over there.

[Guest]

>Buko - 1:23pm Mar 18, 09 PST (#13 of 14)

>potential to alienate everyone.

yeah maybe! getting rid of those who never read manuals.

[Guest]

or those who do who help those who don't...

[Guest]

that'll be a serious problem to all those who don't and the forums can be closed all down.

[Ann_Shelbourne1]

>but i see a huge potential especially the ability to add directly media content to your posts

Have you read Clause 8 of Adobe's Terms of Service?

I suggest that you read it BEFORE you post any images on these Forums.
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The Forum Development team have really screwed-up: The New Forum is frankly unusable except for playing mindless games (such as collecting Points and posting amusingly-silly Avatars and messages in childish multi-colored type).

But the Forums as a Service to help Users of Adobe Software?

I can't imagine that too many of the highly experienced Professionals, who normally give so freely of their time and expertise to answer questions in the Forums are going to be interested in wasting their time wading through that glacially slow junk-filled muck in the "New Forums".

[PJonesCET]

Anything is subject to abuse.

I might use a small Avatar or I may not.

If they use the ability to boldface, underline or italicize a word, phrase, or entire sentence; GREAT!! Its better than this arcane system we have having to use < b > < / b > and such. For standard email to bold face you use *. On other forums that use code based bold face use [].

I'm not apt to use colors. But there may a be a case for it.

I notice there are several here that use red print all the time for emphasis on a given sentence. So you can't say color is not used already.

[Guest]

The "arcane system" is called HTML.

[Guest]

>Its better than this arcane system we have having to use < b > < / b > and such

http://www.adobeforums.com/Images/help/edithelp.htm

and what yoko said. ;)

[Guest]

>Ann Shelbourne - 10:37pm Mar 18, 09 PST (#18 of 21)

>Have you read Clause 8 of Adobe's Terms of Service?

>I suggest that you read it BEFORE you post any images on these Forums.

oh, oh. calm down, ok. the option to add graphics, link to videos is there, so why complaining about the terms? if adobe does not allow this or if it will get harder to monitor the forum about illegal content, then it will be Adobes decision to leave it in or not.

sorry, but i don't get you gripe about that.

but anyway, i'm reading a few threads about the new forums, and i see people just complaining about the new forum and other gripes. Hopefully this will not be a complete step backwards, i fear...

[Guest]

>Its better than this arcane system we have having to use < b > < / b > and such

http://www.adobeforums.com/Images/help/edithelp.htm

and what yoko said. ;)

[Ann_Shelbourne1]

> the option to add graphics, link to videos is there, so why complaining about the terms?

Thomas:

If you ever actually create original Art or Photographs which have value, you would understand our concern about Clause 8.

Have you actually READ the TOS and Clause 8.?

And do you realise what Rights you may be giving away if you post images on Adobe's web sites?