Using the Community

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

I have ben trying hard to get into the General Discussion of ColdFusion forum and I am unable to post a single reply on it.Cheers,Vipul

Every email message from these forums has the text "New message" inserted into the subject. That is useless since you are putting it in every message. It might be useful if it were to tell us what actually happened (i.e. sometimes say "New thread" or "New poll", but even then I would say that is pretty obvious when the disastrous threading is fixed by introducing proper References and In-Reply-To headers in the email notifications), but in the current incarnation it is a waste of screen space.Please remove that string from the email subject.Jochem-- Jochem van Dietenhttp://jochem.vandieten.net/

IF I want to be notified about additional threads to which I have contributed, then I'll ASK to be notified.  We should have to opt-in in order to receive notifications.Stop the automatic notifications.Get rid of all the fluff.Bah!

Can anyone say whether the change from forums@adobe.com to userforu@adobe.com as the From: address of email notifications is a one-time change, or are we all going to have to amend our message rules regularly?Noel

FORAsince it's a Latin word.Adobe, please note!Sorry to be pedantic, but that's the English language for you.By the way, I like these new fora. Clean, modern and easy to use.

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum, but could not find the answer on the adobe site and hope someone here will know.I work on both PC and MAC platforms.  Is there any way I buy CS or any of the Adobe Suites or single Products, so  that I install them on both my MAC and my PC?Thank you very much for you consideration!

Is this going to happen every day? Both yesterday and this evening, about 5:00 PM Eastern time, the whole site went offline briefly for "scheduled maintenance." It didn't last long, but it wasn't very graceful, either -- just a buch of page load errors at first.What's up?Peter

I'm spiked at 99% CPU most of the time on this terrible crap forum--even just from moving the mouse over links.I didn't complain about all the extra frilly stuff many people seemed to have a problem with, but...poor performance?  That's a deal breaker.This is why JAVASCRIPT, and "Jive" sucks. This is unusable for me on IE 7... come on now. (???) Only took about 15 minutes to get here and post this...Here's an idea Adobe: go ahead and create a FLEX forum if you want fancy fancy RIA type functionality and ditch this Ajax/JS hack trash. It's not like you don't have the expertise in Flex here... and it could use the demonstration and publicity.

I shut off the email and I'm still getting it. Enough already.I get enough SPAM with having my mail box full of the crap from this forum. When I want to read the forum I will come to the forum. This is another deal breaker that is driving me away. These Jive guys should be shot.

As with the preview version of the forum, the following is the case:From within a topic/discussion, I have some choices.Two breadcrumb links, Discussion and Forum Comments.A link called 'Up to Discussions in Forum Comments'.The first and third of these choices take me to a page with a list of topics/discussions. There is an Overview tab I can click to reveal the sticky topics.Fine, but why two links?The other one, the breadcrumb 'Forum Comments' appears to take me to the same place, with the same list of discussions - except that the Overview tab is already open.I think the boxes on the right also swap places, Sub-forums being above or below Actions.Try as I might, I cannot see the logic in this navigation system.

I just noticed that some of my attachmnts from an email message didn't arrive but were silently dropped. I don't think silently dropping them is a very good policy, because people will attach harmless documents like install.log to a message and refer to that attachment. That is bound to add a lot of confusion.Apart from changing the silent dropping olicy, can you allow the following file types:.log.wsdl.ico.as.mxml.cfm.cfc

With the old forums I had my workflow automated as follows:1. Download all new messages to a folder per forum.2. Delete all messages from people in my kill file.3. Delete all messages from threads in my ignore filter. (This was a forward looking filter, so if I ignored a thread it did not just kill the messages downloaded until then, but I would also never see messages posted in that thread later.)4. Mark all messages from people in my ignore list as read.5. Mark all messages containing certain keywords (e.g. "free version" or "emacs" and "vi") as read.6. Mark all messages that are a response to a message by me (identifiable through the References header) as important.All of this happened automatically in the background before I even started reading, drastically reducing the noise and allowing me to prioritize messages that were directed at me and allowing for offline reading. And of course I had all sorts of hotkeys in my news reader so I could ignore a thread with just a "k", jump to