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Hello! I would just like to say that I realy like the new design! Im going to use this forum alot more now that tha visuals are up!keep on going adobe!

There, I said it.I imagine many of you have monitors that wrap around your design stuios but I bet not many of 'em go floor to ceiling!  If you're on a small monitor that title in the first post can take up a lot of space.RegardsMartin

Hey,I am trying to update a page on my website and it won't allow me to. I have the Dreamweaver software interacting with the FTP server, etc. What is going on wrong? Please respond as soon as possible.Thanks.

What are the reasons that nntp access was discontinued?As a direct result a lot of long-time, knowledgable users seem to have abandoned the forums especially on the Macromedia side - nntp was just so much quicker let alone the possibilities to filter and quickly save topics as plain text. This is more than a bit disappointing.Please, consider bringing back nttp access.

So when is this going to get fixed. I wasn't even gone an hour and the actual login takes forever.

I inadvertently included my phone number in a post and would like to remove it. I was able to edit it out in a post that didn't have any replies, but there's still one that I don't have the option to edit. Can you suggest a remedy? Thanks.

In this discussion:http://forums.adobe.com/message/1898907 Two images I've uploaded are stuck as "QUEUED". They display in web pages in browsers ok.What's the problem?

Adobe Forums admin folks (John C, perhaps?), please have mercy on your users and make Verdana the default for posts, and not frickin' Arial. Verdana was designed for on-screen reading, while Arial was barely designed for reading at all. I'll set this same paragraph again in Verdana below, so you can see the difference. Assuming you can change the default font at all, of course.Adobe Forums admin folks (John C, perhaps?), please have mercy on your users and make Verdana the default for posts, and not frickin' Arial. Verdana was designed for on-screen reading, while Arial was barely designed for reading at all. I'll set this same paragraph again in Verdana below, so you can see the difference. Assuming you can change the default font at all, of course.That's the same point size in both paragraphs, btw. Isn't that better? Don't you wish this paragraph was in Verdana as well?Cheers,T

Blank lines in text pasted from the clipboard into a message get deleted when the message is posted (at least with IE 7 and 8).  Some use cases in which this is quite annoying:- Copying text from some other Web page, e.g. a FAQ.- Composing your message in another, more civilized text editor.

Is anyone having the same problem I am? I clicked the link to start receiving email notifications, thinking I'd receive an email to alert me to the fact that someone had responded to my post, and when suddenly my email account was inundated with dozens of threads that had nothing to do with my particular question, I returned to the Forums website, turned off notifications... but it didn't take. It just won't allow me to stop receiving email notifications. Flaw in the programming.Not the first time I've had problems on an Adobe web page. For having produced the best software in the world, they sure don't know how to use it correctly.ThanksTice

SDA seems to be monkeying around:http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375651?start=135&tstart=0

Of all the things that have been broken and slowed and complicated, this is the one thing I miss the most.  When I re-open a thread, I want to go right to where I left off, you know - like how it used to work...

Why is the FAQ for each forum missing when viewing posts? We say "reset prefs per FAQ," then the user reads it and... where is the FAQ? Not on the page where they might need it. The FAQ box must be the one ALWAYS visible for every type of page that might exists.

I don't see an option to rate the answer for a forum post.  Am I missing something?

In the thread around and about http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/message/140998 (the Flex product manager) says thata) they've tweaked the subject and body templates so things are a little betterb) if they fix the email header problems so that threading works correctly (as it used to) it might take a bit longer than a) didWhy they didn't spot all this before go-live (maybe they did and decided to do it anyway, for what ever reason) I've no idea, and why it's the Flex product manager feeding this back to a community not even on this forum is another exercise I'm backing away from 🙂

Hi. I've tried using Mozilla, IE and Chrome to post a thread in the Flex forum.I can start a discussion and I can type the title of my thread but the cursor won't appear in the text area (the area i am typing in now).Any ideas?Cheers.

Actually, the Post button seems to work, but it's impossible to type any text, and the formatting toolbar is missing. Using Opera 9.64, Windows.I would have thought that cross browser compatibility would be important for a forum like this one.

COPTIED FROM A REPLY, but after I posted I decided I wanted this to be a thread of its own.As a 'News Group User' of the older forum, I find the e-mail feature to not be sufficient to make up the removal of the NTTP feature.I, and several like me, answered a lot more questions then we asked.  To do this, we don't hang around the web interface all day.  Rather we connected with our handy news readers to the NNTP feeds.  Thus we could pruse all the new topics since the last time we had a few moments.  See any that we could help with and fire off a reply, then go on to the next message.  No back buttons, multiple web forms or any other huey that slows down serial responders.We NNTP users may have been a small group, but we where very vocal, at least on the ColdFusion forums where I share much of my knowledge.I can tell you, if today is the indication that this is the best that these new forums has to offer, I will not be a frequent contributor to these discussions

Here's a loophole:  This original post could contain abuse or spam, yet there is no Report Abuse button to report it.  I noticed it when I was contemplating reporting what looked like self promotion aimed at directing traffic to the poster's YouTube videos in a post in the Photography forum.

I am having problems with the forms. I try to print my answers into the form, but I can't. I have to print  the blank form and then to fill it up manually. What am I doing wrong?

I too am on a Mac. A PowerBook 1.67GB 17" and I find all the forums much slower on this new system.Part of the problem is merging the two server systems together The Old Macromedia users and the old adobe Groups together. Therefore the are serving twice as many people or more on the same amount of Server  equipment. Until they beef up the speed, and size of the servers and have sattelite equipment to lighten the load the system will always be slower than before.The system should be on the highest speed sytem they can get . T5, FOIS, whatever.  And it should have the bigest hard drives and fastest processor availble. If the want to be serious.

I appreciate the other thread John C. posted in this forum for its succinctness, but I think I like the original one we had posted several places around these forums better:http://forums.adobe.com/thread/375816?tstart=0And for anyone who'd like to be reminded of the ORIGINAL version of this, the one I pointed out years ago and which Len Hewitt summarized at the link above, please visit the following link. It's a goodie, and worth reviewing by many of us.How To Ask Question The Smart Wayhttp://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

I can't get past the first page of the indesign user's forum -- either by clicking on the next page icon, or clicking on a page number. When I click, the page is redrawn, but it remains on page 1. I'm using Safari 3.2.1 on Mac OS X 10.5.6.

The links in emails for 'reply/view' this thread, as well as 'you can't start a new thread over email' are both broken.