Small niggles

[Kath-H]

As requested, a thread for annoying little things that we hope can be easily fixed - not the biggies like failing to go back to where you last read, being logged out mid-post, lack of NNTP etc - just niggly little things.

[Claudio_González1]

Claudio González wrote:

This is from another forum I frequent, and I find it most useful, even though the Back button works perfectly there....

Would be great to have it here.

Well, the corresponding bar in these forums was changed to this at least since yesterday:

Excellent, and I would like to think this was a result of my request, although I doubt it (too soon).

[Zeno_Bokor]

only problem left with that is that it's smallish, it would be easier to use if it were a bit bigger

[Claudio_González1]

Claudio González wrote:

Claudio González wrote:

This is from another forum I frequent, and I find it most useful, even though the Back button works perfectly there....

Would be great to have it here.

Well, the corresponding bar in these forums was changed to this at least since yesterday:

Excellent, and I would like to think this was a result of my request, although I doubt it (too soon).

Gone from the first page of the Comments forum now; only pages 1 and 2 are shown. On going to page 2, however,  it's there again.

Same thing happens in the Acrobat Windows forum. In the Acrobat Macintosh and in the Reader forums, I don't get this this useful bar even after several page changes. And in the Forums in Spanish, I'm getting it from the start.

Shouldn't such things work the same in all the forums?

Is JC or any Admin visiting this thread?

[Guest]

Claudio González wrote:

Is JC or any Admin visiting this thread?

I joked earlier about them being on holiday in the Bahamas but, for all the good they are doing and the feedback we're (not) getting, they might just as well be.

Pathetic!

[Guest]

Can we fix this? I see it at the bottom of the screen:

Adobe Forums powered by Jive Software's Clearspace ® 2.5.7

[JayJhabrix]

Ansury wrote:

Adobe Forums powered by Jive Software's Clearspace ® 2.5.7

Clicked that link... very funny, Adobe is not listed amongst their top clients...Opens up a whole lot of thoughts...

1/ Have they sold Adobe a lemon?

2/ Did Adobe stinge and buy an outdated version?

3/ Do they consider Adobe unimportant or did they know this was going to be a disaster from word go because of points 1 and 2 above as well as variations, combinations and unthought of as yet reasons

4/ Your inputs welcome

PS: Among a whole lot of other excreta, moving the cursor around in the reply window stinks.

[Zeno_Bokor]

2/ Did Adobe stinge and buy an outdated version?

maybe it wasn't when they started to move but it sure is now.

Version used here: 2.5.7

Version on the Jive forums: 3.0.1

[JayJhabrix]

Zeno Bokor wrote:

2/ Did Adobe stinge and buy an outdated version?

maybe it wasn't when they started to move but it sure is now.

Version used here: 2.5.7

Version on the Jive forums: 3.0.1

Quite, so why don't they upgrade? Like we have to keep upgrading with their products?

[Jay_Chevako]

Nothing to see here.

Jay

[Guest]

Adobe is not listed amongst their top clients...Opens up a whole lot of thoughts...

like maybe adobe is about to excercise an "out" in the contract?!!

[Guest]

Did somebody already mention that, when you click Reply, the text insertion point defaults to the title and not to the text box?

Well if they did, I've said it again.  

[S_D_A_]

My niggles;

• Make spell checker choice a sticky (presently it's not)
• Forum listing defaults to 30, doesn't remember choice if set to something else. This should also "stick".

That's it for now.

[Guest]

When I skimmed over this page I thought the title said "Small nipples"

[JayJhabrix]

Buko. wrote:

When I skimmed over this page I thought the title said "Small nipples"

10 points to you! Unfortunately, i'm not the one giving out the points

[Kath-H]

Sorry, I'm not giving out 10 points, people might think it's all fixed

[Guest]

Kath-H wrote:

Sorry, I'm not giving out 10 points, people might think it's all fixed

But surely this gem deserves at least partial credit?  Don't be such a Jive! 

[JayJhabrix]

Kath-H wrote:

Sorry, I'm not giving out 10 points, people might think it's all fixed

Who cares what they think? Be brave, be generous, above all be... well, be whatever!

[Guest]

JayJhabrix wrote:

Kath-H wrote:

Sorry, I'm not giving out 10 points, people might think it's all fixed

Who cares what they think? Be brave, be generous, above all be... well, be whatever!

Like, I know man. That's Jived up!  That's just Jived up man...

[Phillip_M_Jones]

Buko. wrote:

When I skimmed over this page I thought the title said "Small nipples"

Better quit frequenting those 3 and 4 X sites.

[JayJhabrix]

PjonesCET wrote:

Better quit frequenting those 3 and 4 X sites.

4X?! Hot dam$!! Where??? Where???? Where?!?!?!?!

[Claudio_González1]

Coming back to topic, as I understand things, this should be an easy one:

Why not change the default text type to a more readable one?

This had been requested earlier, but nothing happened:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419471?tstart=240

[Guest]

Speaking of readable text, how about Jive figures out a way to actually not cut off the bottom of low dipping letters like "y" or "p" in our forum names?  Jive crap forums makes y = v and p = o.  How crummy can this get... can't even display simple text properly!  How amateur of them.  That's what they get for being all fancy, and stupid.

[Guest · Accepted solution]

http://forums.adobe.com/message/2007641#2007641

Sorry folks, but word has come down from above that abuse of the point system is counter-productive. There are management types that actually believe some users see points as an incentive to provide a quality answer, and that they wouldn't do so without the points, but that's not a widely held opinion among hosts. Nevertheless, I have to lock the thread, and warn you that at some point there will be official sanctions for those who post threads with the sole purpose of gaming the point system.

"official sanctions"? like what the h@#$ll do they think they can do? you can't lock out people making death threats and you think you're going to f@%k people over for gaming the f@#$ing points system?!!

YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SAME PEOPLE WHO HAVE HELPED ADOBE FOR FREE WITH THEIR TIME AND EXPERTISE FOR YEARS!!!

F**#K YOU!!!

[Kath-H]

10 ironic points for dave

[Guest]

In the imortal words of Drew Carey: "1000 points to everyone"