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I'm not sure, but i feel that since yesterday's six+ hour outage, the forums seem a bit faster. Still not up to speed – as in the old ones – but definitely faster than before.

We're giving you guys TONS of feedback. We're helping to troubleshoot, were telling you what works and what doesn't. We're reporting on problems and helping other uers with workarounds and solutions. We're offering everything we know and can figure out. Yeah, it gets elevated to some pretty noisy bitching at times. Sorry about that, Chief! But we're not hearing much in return, or seeing much in the way of tangible results.Example: Since we've heard nothing much about getting rid of the annoying right-side column, we'd made suggetions about putting some quick navigation links in the right-column boxes for forum thread indexes. You agreed that it's a good idea. You asked me specifically to put together a list of links. I took the time and put together a nice set of links for both of the Photoshop forums. I even formatted them in the HTML that it looks like you'll need. I sent you a Private Message about them. You asked me to send the text file via email. I did that.Then.....NOTHING.Serio

Ho wdoes one delete a message that they have posted to a forum.  The problem beiong that my message has now made google and I want it out of there, so I need to remorve it from the forum.Kind regardsJulie Thompson

Adobe should consider moving their program software suites to a subscription based, online platform. Where we (the user) pay an initial purchase fee for a personal passkey, and then a monthly fee for continued access to the program suite itself for as long as you want to use it.Updates come automatically, and are downloaded to your computer as needed. Users aren’t stuck in the constant cycle of upgrades with its associated large dollar program purchases, and system wide upgrades for corporate clients. And you know as a user that every time you turn the program on, your up to date with all the latest tools. The online gaming industry has been using this model to great success, and to the benefit of millions upon millions of users for years now. Their programs are as large is not larger in many regards, and their update cycle is much shorter as well. They avoid the constant logistical issues of, designing, printing and shipping of their “boxed” item, and just focus instead on the softwar

The OP in this thread http://forums.adobe.com/thread/418777?tstart=0is unpleasantly rude to someone who I have much respect for and has helped me on several occassions and is generally considered an authority in his field. Though he is no longer an employee with Adobe, I do feel (though I know it's none of my business) that he should be given some sort of special forum status so that ignorant posters be aware of whom they are addressing.

Can't we dump the drop down menus? Like back at the Web Crossing forums. they are always coming down with a mouseover and don't go away.

I am not talking about going to new forum pages, or to a link in a pageI am talking about navigation within IE itselfWhen I first start IE (have to use Internet Explorer due to work support policy) I can click the Favorites link at the top and my list of saved links appears INSTANTLYAs soon as I go to any of these Adobe forums, IE slows to a crawl and there is a noticeable lag between click on Favorites and the drop down list showingWhatever script is running at these Adobe forums is evidently taking up a LOT of computer cycles... enough to make IE's internal navigation run slowIt is really too bad that the webx software could not keep up with the message volume and had to be replaced (per a FAQ note before the change)I really don't care (much) about the new format... but the scripting to MAKE that new format seems to be using up a lot of computer time

...so that you have to open each one to see if any topics were updated.In addition, the highlighting for updated topics is erratic (sometimes bold, sometimes medium bold, what's up with that?).Leon

Guess the forum/topic.

Those of us who have been frustrated over time by the unresponsiveness of the Adobe bureaucracy in dealing with our feature requests are now witnesses to the ironic spectacle of Adobe being treated the same way by the Jive people:http://www.jivesoftware.com/jivespace/thread/38964

The constant logging in. the slowness, the wasted space (making it even more difficult to use on a laptop) is really causing me to use this forum less and less. It use to be Quick and fun to pop in while you were drinking your morning coffee, answer a few questions and get to work. Then after s few hours pop back in for a few more question reply to some of the earlier replies. Now its just plain tedious to do anything on this forum. I want it to work but this is just not doing it. As Phos has pointed out we've been giving feedback but no-one seems to be listening. We've already lost many good people how many more will we lose before this is recognized as the complete failure it is?

A response I gave to a discussion is getting repeated every hour to that discussion without me even doing anything:http://forums.adobe.com/thread/427836?tstart=0

I know this has probably been brought up but to try to find previous posts about it exemplifies the actual problem! Why does the initial search in any forum search all the forums first?  For this post I tried to search for words such as "search" and got every forum listed except this one. I only wanted to look through this discussion. If I'm in the PS forum searching for "paths" I don't need to find every instance of "paths" in every forum.Of course after waiting for an initial search of the whole Adobe discussion universe I know I can then choose "Search Options" to narrow the search parameters in that tiny little scroll box of every Adobe discussion.I hope this gets changed to search in the present discussion first.

Couldn't get access for the past hour or so, some sort of a maintenance msg was displayed, but now the speed is FANTASTICALLY better -- by a factor of 20 to 1 or so.Good going!

Hello -I was wondering, where I could update my e-mail address for my Adobe® account?Thank you…- Dimitri

i can't find the box for code like the quote box but one that keeps the box the same size and offer a scroller so that i don't litter my post when posting any type of code?

In another thread discussing the agonies of being unexpectedly logged out in the middle of making a (usually long)  forum posting, I mentioned a Wish List item of some sort of a script that would preserve form content (i.e. postings here) as we're entering it, so that if/when we get logged out before doing "submit", our breathless prose isn't lost forever. Dave suggested there might be something like that using a GreaseMonkey script.Lo and behold, there is a Firefox add-on called Lazarus that does exactly this.http://lazarus.interclue.com/index.htmlNormally I'd try this out before suggesting it, but two things make testing a bit difficult:1) the logouts don't happen often enough (to me, at least) to be able to test it very much, and2) it turns out Lazarus is by the makers of Interclue, another FF addon that I already useSo, if there's anybody out there who would like to test this, please report back whether it works for you, and I'll do the same.And, last but not least, I recently

as seen on the picture, i am bloqued out of forums for some reason but is till can post if i go from my email links!?

Where are the email digests?Or aren't there any any more?Or am I just not understanding how to get a digest from a particular forum?

Hi,I am new to CS4 with no prior experience on Adobe programs.  I would like to create a printable document that would allow a text message to be hidden by a red textured top layer until viewed with "decoder" red glasses.  Any help in creating this or pointing me in the direction of a sample that could be broken down and the hidden text edited would be appreciated.

How does one remove a child from the display list, but then put it back, i.e. reset?  I've found that once the reference is gone and set for garbage collection trying to re-add the child results in a null reference error.  For example if I have a bunch of circle instances drawn by the user on the stage, if I add a reset button and remove the child, all well and good, but it can't come back?!in attached file, the shapes are being made by ellipses.fla, whose .swf is loaded by FreeDraw.fla.  When I hit reset I essentially want to "reload" ellipses.swf.Any help would be really appreciated!Thanks!Davidcode for ellipses:var circle:Sprite = new Sprite();var color:Number = Math.random() * 0XFFFFFF;stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_DOWN, startDrawing);stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_UP, stopDrawing);function startDrawing(e:MouseEvent):void{ stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.MOUSE_MOVE, makeShapes);}function stopDrawing(e:MouseEvent):void{ stage.removeEventListener(M

Nothing fits in the screen you must scroll forever. Its bad enough on a 23 inch monitor but just unacceptable on a laptop.

The top participants in the testing sub-forum  just now:Yesterday I was allegedly the top participant, which is definitely not so. Hover over someone's profile and you see recent threads - but they are rarely the most recent. 'More like this' is wildly inaccurate.I just get the feeling of wheels somewhere grinding and groaning, trying to calculate all this stuff and keep it up to date. I think we need to strip this system down considerably to where the software can cope. I'm not seeing much in the way of slowness but a number of people are - can't we put the extraneous fluff out of its misery and concentrate on the essential functions?Eg the current 'More like this' by this post:It just doesn't work and must waste 'fuel' somewhere in the effort to come up with sensible entries.

Searching for "virus scanning forums ellis" fails to find a message I posted containing all of the search terms:But searching for "virus scanning forums", without the term "ellis", does find the message:Google also finds the message with the full query, "virus scanning forums ellis".

What has happened to it?