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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

Logged out and back in on the old forum.(this forum) Followed the prompts to migrate account. However, when I log into the new forum my MM user name shows. Yesterday I was logged in to the new forum under my old name. ?

I spent many hours in frustration trying to log on to the forums last week. Finally, I was able to log on by some mystery but no such luck this week. Is there any way to use my old log in name so I can keep my history, record of my use with topics flagged normally that I have visited, or do I need to use this new moniker and basically start over? Thank You, Ken Ken Nielsen, forum user since 1997

Dumb question? In the NNTP group I'd be able to save a reply that I liked by simply dragging it to a folder in Thunderbird. How do you save a post in this forum short of copying and pasting?Thanks.

I am struck by the odd list of product forums listed at the entry point to the new forums (http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa). There are one-click icons that jump to the Flash Player, Acrobat, Flash, Photoshop Elements, Dreamweaver, Livecycle, Photoshop, Adobe Reader, ColdFusion, Flex, Acrobat Connect Pro, and Lightroom forums. I can understand the massively popular products like Flash, Adobe Reader, and Photoshop, but Livecycle, ColdFusion, and Acrobat Connect Pro? Why are those niche products elevated to such prominence, while flagship Adobe products like InDesign and Illustrator are buried in a drop-down menu? I wonder if these were just random selections by the web design team, or if they reflect a corporate emphasis on "new media" products over print design.If it is just a random selection of Adobe products, is there a way I can create my own jump list, or will I always have to dig through a labyrinth to find the forums that interest me most?

is it possible to set the default editor on a user by user basis? i'd like to use the html editor by default and only switch to the rich text editor when i have to...

I typed a few screen names and it always gave me errors, so then I just typed in some gibberish and Adobe accepted it. Now my name is gibberish and I's like to change it. How can I do that?

With the old forums (both webx and cfusion) I stayed signed in at work AND at homeAs far as I can tell, this forum trashes my cookie when I switch from one computer to anotherI first logged in at home with my morning coffee... came to work and logged in to check the forums for the products I use at workWent home... and I was not logged inNot a BIG deal, but is a small pita to have to log in at the "other" place when the cookie is trashed

If we have to have combined forums, can we at least get a couple of nice icons that people can click to insert into their post to show which OS it's for?Something like: or maybe?We're getting lots of confusion in the ID General forum, with people recommending SSE register fixes for Mac problems or "clear your caches" for Windows problems. If there was some icon people could insert right at the beginning of the message it might help.Actually it would be even better if it could be inserted into the subject line!

So I am trying to give these new forums as much a chance as possible.  I am really feeling the loss of the NNTP news feed as I have discused elsewhere.E-mail is serious lacking in that the messages are largely unintelligable without real improvement. My next step was to look at the RSS feeds and I am presented with 6 choices with only their titles and links to go on to disgingish between options.  So what do I want to use and why would a user choose 'All Content RSS Feed" over the "Discussion Messages" or maybe the "Discussion Threads"?Is this discussed somewhere?RSS FEED OPTIONSAll Content RSS Feed:Announcements:Discussion Messages:Popular Discussion Threads:Discussion Threads:Unanswered Threads:

I foolishly assumed if I was following a thread over email I'd be able to reply to the email and have it appear. ya know, the really useful feature we used to have ? Sadly: .............. Date: Wed,  8 Apr 2009 04:51:33 -0600 (MDT) From: MAILER-DAEMON@mail.sgaur.hosted.jivesoftware.com (Mail Delivery System) Subject: Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender To: tom.chiverton@halliwells.com Auto-Submitted: auto-replied MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <20090408105133.7BE75240811D@mail.sgaur.hosted.jivesoftware.com> .............. This is the mail system at host mail.sgaur.hosted.jivesoftware.com.  I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could not be delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.  For further assistance, please send mail to   If you do so, please include this problem report. You can delete your own text from the attached returned message.               &

I must say that, overall, I like the new forums a lot.But, in the old forums I was able to view a list of all of the threads that I have commented in, regardless of whether or not I started thread.  I always used this to see if someone commented back.In this forum the only way for me to do this is to allow it to subscribe me, so that I get emails when the thread updates.  I don't mind this, except that I can only check my email while at work, and I like to post in the evening as well.Can we get a method to see these things, so that I can stop parsing through my actions and history to find the different threads I am participating in?Also, is there a way I can change the email that is attached to my account?  I would prefer to switch to my personal email address, and don't want to create a new account for this if I don't have to.