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After four days of using the new Jive forums, I've come to the conclusion that I have dedicated about three times the usual amount of time to the Adobe forums and have accomplished less than one tenth of what I used to do in a similar amount of time.  This works out to a ratio of 30 to 1 in terms of how much better the old forum format performed in comparison to what we've ended up with here so far.I'm basing this calculation on the number of hours spent here since last Sunday versus the few satisfying threads I have been able to read as well as the remarkably little assistance I've been able to give.These results are naturally somewhat skewed by such things as the proportionally inordinate amount of time spent in the Forum Comments forum as well as reading and commenting on forum complaints on the other forums I've visited, to wit:  Photoshop Macintosh, Bridge Macintosh, Camera Raw, DNG, Color Management, Photography, Typography, Type, Illustrator, InDesign and this Forum Co

why is that? weird. speeeel [sic] checker in firefox should show up with a red underline when i'm typing input and misspell something. this is just a <textarea> so i don't see why it should be disabled. anything you guys can do to fix it?thanks, dave

Hi,I am an admin of 80 Workstation and I would like to request an Adobe Update Server like WSUS from Microsoft or SAP Installation Server. Adobe release a lot of Updates and sometimes they are critical such as for the Adobe Reader. So i must walk to all 80 Workstation and install the Update manually. Thats time intensive and the Workstation are not secure until i install the Update. To use the Update function of the Products is no opinion because when every workstation download only the Photoshop CS4 Update i have about 8 GB internet traffic.Adobe develop a lot of wonderful Products and when they develop an Adobe Update Server all Admin in the World can update their Products promtly and all Products would be save. And nobody can use a security hole to get control over the workstation. The Admins can save a lot of time with such a Server. And time is MoneyDear Dusselritter

If I click on "Next" at the top or bottom of the page containing the list of threads, nothing happens. This is for FireFox and IE8. This happens frequently but more often in IE8. The status line at the bottom of IE8 says "error on page".Steve

Just testing and reconfiguring scripts and Adblock.

Well, here is a screen capture of the problem...

During the trial period I complained of several things. In no particular order, and without trying to be exhaustive:1. No visible way of going to the last message (I was tought a trick that works, but it wasn't known by many). Now there is a button for this. Solved.2. Problem with people like myself who refuse to use an email address as their Adobe ID, and the forum software trying unsuccessfully to email us to whatever we used as our ID. As I have now been receiving emails reporting answers to some of my posts, I guess it must have also been solved.3. Login problems differently affecting mt desktop Mac and my Vista laptop: in one or both I remained logged even after shutdowns, while in the other or both I was logged out after indeterminate periods of inactivity, all this changing erratically in time. Now I remained logged on both machines after their nightly shutdown. So, at least for the time being, solved.4. Problem affecting the Spain forum in my Mac/Firefox - Last Post column not

First of all I'm grateful that we can now embed movies but there are a few problems. First, you can't use Safari because the select a video site portion is blank. Click on the selectors and nothing happens.Second, You can't embed movies from your own site. It looks like only the big 5 sites are permitted. I have a bunch of samples and tutorials stored on my site that I'l love to be able to embed. I can create a link, but I can't embed. Even if I edit in html and put in all of the acceptable code, an embedded movie gets renamed to a flash movie and the whole thing seems to be broken. I have not tried re-encoding my samples as flash movies so I don't know if that's the fix.One last gripe, this one on links. If you select target=blank it doesn't seem to work. You still get the link popping up in the current browser window. It seems like most other html code is working, but this one is broken for sure.

Come on now. I was astonished to find out the f r i g g i n was considered profanity by adobe. But what about b u c k e t? Isn't that the name of a tool in some of the Adobe programs.Step 3: Use the paint bucket to add a new color.Really smooth, isn't it.Don

When I am reading posts in one forum, say this one, and then I want to visit another forum, what is the best way to do that?  It seems that a drop list of forums would be useful, but alas, it's not there.  There is the breadcrumb trail above, but when I click on the one that would make sense to click on (in this case the one that says "Adobe General Forums") I get a curious message about not being able to start a discussion.  Why is that?  To move from this forum to the Dreamweaver forum, I have to go all the way out to the list of Adobe forums, and come back in.  In the case of this forum, that's really expected, since there are no real subforums (at least none that I am interested in), but for the Dreamweaver forums, there are several subforums that I visit, and I'm looking for a quicker/easier way to do that.  What am I missing?

Often, I'll navigate to one of the forums' thread index pages, and while it slowly loads I'll be scanning the topic list. As I do this, it's a habit for me to begin scrolling down (with my mouse wheel, natch) to continue scanning the threads below the bottom threshhold of my browser window's display.Quite often when I do that, the page moves up as expected, but all of the content in the "Discussions" wrapper disappears until the loading process catches up. That means I have to wait even longer to get a look at that stuff lower on the page.This is another thing that slows down the process of getting in and getting things done quickly.Anybody else seeing this?Here's what it looks like when it happens:

I've ticked 'remember me' on several occasions over the course of today, because it clearly doesn't.  Any hints on what might be up ?

Its quite nicely convenient to have links between similar forums, like we had in WebX. There's even a place for it.For example, in the right-column box entitled "Forums" it's nice to have links to to similar forums, e.g.: On the Photoshop/Windows thread index page, there's currently a link in that box for Photoshop Windows FAQ.I'd also like to see a list (or even a drop down menu) for links to "Photoshop for Macintosh" "Lightroom" "Photoshop Scripting", etc. Any links that are somewhat obvious "kindred" forums. I might even go so far as to ask for links between the Photoshop forums,  the Illustrator and Indesign Forums, and maybe a couple others, since they are, after all Suite-mates and used by many of us on a simultaneous and daily basis.Too bad, I—or someone—couldn't be allowed access to perform this sort of "grunt work." I'd have a friendly load of cross-pollination links set up within the next 24 hours.

I have personalized my homepage to show links to pages I will be visiting frequently. How do I get to this page from, say a forum discussion page? The two Home links on the page just take me to adobe.com, and the page does not figure in my History.Noel

Starting this afternoon about 2pm PST I was unable to login. Until that time, I had had no problems logging in .My browser just said redirecting and never did finish. I had to create a new account to be able to login. What gives? My screen name for the account in question is "si conehead".

I have been trying to log on using the user name I have been using for the last month but it won't let me.  I ended up with a new account using my email address how do I combine the two so I can see the discussion threads I have previously posted?

That's just WRONG.Adobe has NO defensible right to filter the content of "private" messages, and no responsibility for ANYTHING that transpires in those private communications.Since these two claims have established precedent in almost every court on the planet (countries with horrible civil-rights abuse policies notwithstanding), I feel strongly that the use of filtering in the Private Messaging system should be removed or turned off.I complain, because to NOT complain would be tantamount to being a bad citizen. It's the LACK of similar complaining by massive hordes of the population that scares me.

Given that one of the reasons this forum software was picked was supposedly "high usage volume by the Adobe community." (Is this true?)Isn't it a little odd that something with all these bloatware features (and JavaScript on the front end) .....actually won the competition???I mean, if performance was a top priority, shouldn't we have lost features rather than gain dozens (of crummy features)?I don't buy that argument at all. (Assuming I'm correctly informed that Adobe had a hard time searching for software, due to the high usage level of the forums.)Whoever did the evaluations of which software to use, I'm sure was looking for "fancy features" as a top priority, not performance.  I'd also be very curious to know what the rejected alternatives were.

And when you go to page two or three in the list of threads, enter a thread and press the back button to go back to the list, you go to page 1 of the thread list. Hmmmmmm!If you cancel a 'reply' you end up on the entry page for the forums!My number of posts is not accurate, but that really doesn't matter that much. Some of the people with an extreme number of posts are being credited with posting a smiley. ..... and where's my cool photo! (has to be approved, and it is blue to boot!)Details, details!

This is interesting; perhaps you'd like to provide some insight?I was starting to put together a links list for the Photoshop/Mac sidebar, and in looking for the link to archived (read: the old, locked) threads I discovered that even the oldest of the old are now contained in the same list of thread index pages as all the current threads. AND! it appears that we can now reply to them. And, I'll assume they'll be findable in a focused search, as well.To wit: This thread started by Marc Pawliger on 12 Oct 2000, and most recently replied to by Scott Weichert on 11 Aug 2002:http://forums.adobe.com/thread/368847?tstart=3420Well, I just did a test reply, and it's been floated to the top of the Photoshop for Mac forum.Personally, I find this absolutely terrific. Was opening these threads back up a conscious decision, or was it the default behavior when you imported all the content from the WebX database to the Jive platform?Your thoughts?

Notifications are arriving thick and fast, so I'll have to devise some method of tidying up. There are so far two things which particularly annoy me:(1) The preamble to each message takes up so much space that I have to scroll down to see the bit I'm really interested in - the message. Here's a typical one:>>Ildhund, A new message was posted in the thread "Blank PDF though I think I've tried everything!": http://forums.adobe.com/message/1868421#1868421Author : Profile : http://forums.adobe.com/people/%5BJongware%5DMessage:

When using the non-rich editor, a default I prefer, all line breaks like this one:  are stripped from the posted content. This breaks code snippits, for instance.

I think the new forum web site is showing a wrong value for the user's total number of postings.

Hi thereWhen inserting an image into a post it's nearly instant. But if inserting an attachment (I just did this with a very tiny TXT file) I am seeing an indication of "Queued".I'm assuming it's waiting in some queue, which seems reasonable, but is this somethiing akin to the avatars? Where we have to wait for a forum moderator to approve it?advTHANKSance... Rick