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As the topic says...
This common login is supposed to be one reason why Adobe can't implement NNTP. But what function does it serve? I've commented in another thread, and below is more or less, what i said there...
That, i think, was the most assinine idea anyone ever came up with. I see no reason for not having separate log ins for store and forums / downloads. In fact, i can't think of one good reason to combine the two.
If i were a user of the Adobe store, i would definitely prefer to have a separate login and password for that area. I think most people would. I see a lot of aliases in the forums. In the store, you'd want to use your real name for tax and audit purposes. Moreover, what's to stop people creating two identities anyway? So, the whole purpose of a common id is meaningless.
Am sure, that even at this stage, it wouldn't be too difficult to separate the two. For instance, whenever i open the forums i see a welcome at the top of the screen. Right above 'Home'. Yet, i still have to login to the forums... what give? Idiotic.
Adding to the above, doing away with this single log in would also mean an end to this frustration of suddenly getting logged off, randomly staying logged in, etc., etc.
John Joslin wrote:
Forum Ops: The people who were helping users are all leaving the forums!
Adobe Management: Whatever.
Adobe Management: Fuck 'em. We already have their money.
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The very fact that your comment is reasonable and logical means that it has zero chance of being considered by the "management" of Adobe.
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"In fact, i can't think of one good reason to combine the two."
Because you don't have all the facts, much less all the plans.
It makes sense.
NNTP has a few dozen things going against it, and login creditentials are the least of it's problems.
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Chris Cox wrote:
NNTP has a few dozen things going against it, and login creditentials are the least of it's problems.
Chris,
Are you able to explain what some of the other issues are?
Harbs
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Because you don't have all the facts, much less all the plans.
Then you shouldn't be surprised to get what you may consider uninformed comments, nor should you criticise them. We didn't uninform ourselves.
It makes sense
Bald statements are unconvincing. People might agree if they understood. Care to share?
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I found that 'because I say so' didn't cut it with my kids beyond the age of about four, when they learnt to use their brains in the form of verbal reasoning.
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Kath-H wrote:
I found that 'because I say so' didn't cut it with my kids beyond the age of about four, when they learnt to use their brains in the form of verbal reasoning.
Maybe I am missing something, but I didn't change logins or anything... didn't the WebX forums use the same login as the store? If WebX did it I don't see why now it's all Jived up with this new software.
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Ansury wrote:
Kath-H wrote:
I found that 'because I say so' didn't cut it with my kids beyond the age of about four, when they learnt to use their brains in the form of verbal reasoning.
Maybe I am missing something, but I didn't change logins or anything... didn't the WebX forums use the same login as the store? If WebX did it I don't see why now it's all Jived up with this new software.
Nope.
When you logged on to webX. You were not logged into adobe.com (store) and unless for some reason you desired to Logg out. as long as the set cookie was there. You could be logged in for 20 -30 years even through many shut downs of your computer. I know until they started messing with combining the Macromedia Groups and Adobe groups I had been singned in for two or three years or more.
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Signed in 2-3 years? Hmm, yeah same here for the good forums.
Too bad that's gone forever! huh?
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Harbs. wrote on 2009-05-24 21:22:
Chris Cox wrote :
>> NNTP has a few dozen things going against it, and login creditentials are the least of it's problems.
Are you able to explain what some of the other issues are?
I don't want to speak for Chris, but perhaps the following recording of
a Connect session on the new forums from a few months back would help to
provide some insight: http://adobedev.adobe.acrobat.com/p61676377/
(Sorry it took a while, I had to check with Adobe this is not (or no
longer) under NDA first.)
Jochem
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Thanks Jochem, very interesting. In that discussion among 'ACEs' I saw absolutely no downsides of NNTP mentioned, except someone thought it was old fashioned. What I saw was spirited resistance to the dropping of NNTP, and *no* reason offered except that Adobe 'doesn't want' to host it any more.
Nothing at all about combining log-ins. And nothing to support Chris's assertion.
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Yeah I just watched that whole thing and what I got out of it was, We are going to do this whether you like it or not. I kept hearing the same things we have been complaining about and nobody seems to care. Thanks for the insight.
Adobe cares more about bells and whistles than information. Thanks Adobe. Might as well do what Quark did and remove the forums completely
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Kath-H wrote on 2009-05-27 23:02:
Thanks Jochem, very interesting. In that discussion among 'ACEs' I saw absolutely no downsides of NNTP mentioned, except someone thought it was old fashioned.
Somewhere, I think in the written comments on the left, it was mentioned
there was a problem with NNTP because changes to messages (due to
updates or moderation) were not reflected on the NNTP side. In addition
there was a mention about a looping problem were posts that were deleted
in the web forums were recreated from a feedback loop from NNTP.
Obviously both problems are entirely solvable and can be blamed
completely on a crappy implementation, but those are at least two of the
perceived problems. I don't know whether these are the problems Chris
was referring to. Chris?
Jochem
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Thanks Jochem,
It was very interesting.
The tone there seemed to be that if there's a way to make NNTP or
similar option work, they will.
The AIR app might really be a viable option, depending on how it's
done...
I'll still keep my fingers crossed...
Harbs
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Yes, thanks for that link. And thanks to Adobe for releasing it to the general public.
The other thing that kept hitting me as odd was the mention of having to set up a news server. Yes, I know that it was somehow a part of the WebX program, but AFAIK, forums.macromedia.com already was a separate news server. At least it had been in use for some time before FuseTalk ever showed up. Of course, it may well have been on its last legs and and they would still have needed to build a new one. Moot point anyway since Jive did its jive thing in that regard.
Oh. And updates/changes/deletions to messages don't get re-sent through emails anyway. But then, Google doesn't archive my email, so I can almost understand that concern.
Thanks again
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Aren't posts in the forums picked up by Google? Unexpurgated versions and all? So what's the extra concern with NNTP?
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Yes, but I how fast? Sometimes the responses in the "Report Spam" threads are mighty quick! Even so, I would bet that some get archived before deletion.
So that is not a very strong argument in my book. I didn't hear any strong arguments against NNTP. The cost of server and maintenance may have been enough to push it over budget, though.
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Then somebody should have the balls to say so.
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Kath-H wrote:
Then somebody should have the balls to say so.
times are tough. b&lls like that can leave you out on the street right now...
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Mark A. Boyd wrote on 2009-05-28 17:01:
The other thing that kept hitting me as odd was the mention of having to set up a news server. Yes, I know that it was somehow a part of the WebX program, but AFAIK, forums.macromedia.com already was a separate news server. At least it had been in use for some time before FuseTalk ever showed up. Of course, it may well have been on its last legs and and they would still have needed to build a new one.
Just get a subscription on some random usenet provider for $25 per month
and feed it through them.
Oh. And updates/changes/deletions to messages don't get re-sent through emails anyway. But then, Google doesn't archive my email, so I can almost understand that concern.
It is more logical to send notifications through NNTP then through
email. NNTP has both a mechanism to remove posts (cancel messages) and a
mechanism to update posts (through the Supercedes header). So not being
able to propagate changes from the forums to NNTP is really a bug in the
NNTP software Adobe used, not in the NNTP protocol itself.
Jochem
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jochemd wrote:
Mark A. Boyd wrote on 2009-05-28 17:01:
Oh. And updates/changes/deletions to messages don't get re-sent through emails anyway. But then, Google doesn't archive my email, so I can almost understand that concern.
It is more logical to send notifications through NNTP then through
email. NNTP has both a mechanism to remove posts (cancel messages) and a
mechanism to update posts (through the Supercedes header). So not being
able to propagate changes from the forums to NNTP is really a bug in the
NNTP software Adobe used, not in the NNTP protocol itself.
Yep. I had forgotten about those since they're turned off on so many servers these days. Totally appropriate in an authenticating setup, too.
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didn't the WebX forums use the same login as the store?
No, definitely not. Maybe you chose the same user name and password for both. But the one would not automatically work on the other.
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It was interesting. Thank you for sharing it.
However it just reinforces the feeling that Adobe (was) rushed into something prematurely, made a half-hearted attempt at a very short preview, and jumped in at the deep end.
As a result, the forums are now struggling to keep afloat.
I think someone forgot that user-to-user forums are no good if the users leave in disgust!
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John Joslin wrote:
I think someone forgot that user-to-user forums are no good if the users leave in disgust!
Touche!
PS: Forgive, organising the accent was too much of a hassle!
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jochemd wrote:
I don't want to speak for Chris, but perhaps the following recording of
a Connect session on the new forums from a few months back would help to
provide some insight: http://adobedev.adobe.acrobat.com/p61676377/
(Sorry it took a while, I had to check with Adobe this is not (or no
longer) under NDA first.)
Jochem
the other thing I got out of the video was Adobe is more concerned about looking pretty than having a functional fast working forum with all the experts that have left us.