I have not been very verbal about the changes and growing pains of the forum over the last 10 years (or more accurately, attempted changes), but I'll tell you what, this format is bad. It was much cleaner and easier to navigate before - this way is clunky.
- it takes up too much space
- takes longer to load
- we need the breadcrumbs at the bottom of each page
- we need to know where the unread new posts begin (heck, even vbullitin can do it!)
- we need a better way to get back to where we came from when we go places like to the "your stuff" links
- the TOS absolutely MUST be changed so that Adobe does NOT usurp the rights of the users who post images either to this site directly or by way of external links. Right now (and in the future), under the currently worded TOS Adobe is claiming rights to all the photos to use for whatever reason they want. Sorry Adobe, you are going to lose a LOT of credibility (and potentially customers) with that way of thinking.
Unfortunately, I am sure there will be more issues. 
greenjumpyone (formerly known as Hopper)
edit: the "Overview" tab is only visible (for me) on the main discussion window, not on the individual threads. I'm not sure what that tab actually does, as clicking on it did not change anything for me. I do have the preferences set to "flat" on the thread view. Maybe that's the reason it seems to do nothing for me?
Here is what the page looks like so far:
The "More Like This" title is still there, but the contents of said box are obliterated. Looks like the title itself is tied to the ACTIONS box, but it's pretty harmless now—no more than a static rule would be.
Message was edited by: Ramón G Castañeda — made new screen shot
And here's what the thread discussions index page for this forum looks like now with the scripts and blocks:
I fully get that, Dorothy. It was one of the things I disliked about the old way, so this is great! 
Don
DorothyK@Adobe wrote:
DonRicklin wrote:
I fully get that, Dorothy. It was one of the things I disliked about the old way, so this is great!
Don
Not gonna be so easy to make the NNTP folks happy, tho. They lost that, and don't think email can replace it.
There is always the RSS! That wasn't there and I know many that will clap over that!
Don
PjonesCET wrote:
The only thing see disappointing is in the the threading of the email notifications.
In old system comments made to same thread were Thread.
In this new style each notification is individual even if the same subject.
This is a major reason I stopped going to apple forums because everythread was shown as anindividual email rather than threads grouped together.
I guess I can live with it.
That's one thing that was working, then got broke when they added the number at the end of the subject line. Now at least gmail no longer sees it as being part of the same thread. 
Further tweaking will no doubt happen.
David_Powers wrote:
I suppose others will eventually fill their places, but it's likely to have a serious effect on the value of the Dreamweaver forums for some time to come.
I suspect it won't just be the dreamweaver forums...
dave milbut wrote:
this is bad. this is very very bad.
Explain thy self! What's is bad about the new forums? Merely complaining helps no one!
Don
D. McCahill wrote:
Let's give the thing a few weeks to shake out before declaring it to be crap. It is different, but we will be able to get used to it, I think. At least it is not as bad as the MM side was.
agreed.
but i still think it looks like shiete compared to the nice clean professional look we had! 
dave milbut wrote:
but i still think it looks like shiete compared to the nice clean professional look we had!
Meh. I hated the old forums quite a bit. I much prefer the look & feel of this new site, though I agree there are bugs to be worked out. I found the forums exceptionally difficult to read and a pain to navigate. I'm already a hell of a lot happier with the way this site works.
The 'More Like This' is something I'd turn off since I'd never use. I believe the question thing is meant to highlight users who provide useful feedback; I suspect the creator of a thread has the option to mark a response as 'answered the question' or 'helpful' and dole out points that way. I'm just guessing though, since I've never created a thread -- I just try to answer questions on the AI SDK forum.
The new forum look is gosh-darned awful.
It took several scripts and Adblock Plus to tame it a bit: force full-width forum page to waste less space, nuke all avatars, kill the utterly useless "More Like This" box, obliterate the "Top Participants" box, delete the "Staus" icon under each poster's name, hide "labels" and "badges", etc. Now I see none of that cr@p! 
Now some misguided, lost soul wants "signatures" ??? !!! No way! we went over this many times already: do not allow signatures, please! Ban anyone who uses them. 
And ban anyone that wants to use multiple fonts, styles, type and color! 
(Ooops, bye)
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