Using the Community

Hi thereThis morning I was able to reply to a couple of posts directly from my E-Mail account. But later I tried and the replies were rejected. I've heard from another community expert that he was seeing rejected replies as well.In case it will help, below is a copy/paste of one rejection.=====> Snip <=====This is the mail system at host mail.sgaur.hosted.jivesoftware.com.I'm sorry to have to inform you that your message could notbe delivered to one or more recipients. It's attached below.For further assistance, please send mail to <postmaster>If you do so, please include this problem report. You candelete your own text from the attached returned message.                   The mail system<clearspace-628489891-2Xy-2-7PYJ@mail.forums.adobe.com>: host    10.137.24.42[10.137.24.42] said: 553    <clearspace-628489891-2Xy-2-7PYJ@mail.forums.adobe.com&gt

The new forums are eye candy, but worse for usability.In fact, this is a horrible change.In most forums that I visit, the forums remember what was new at the time you visit, so that the next time you visit, you can see which posts are new, and which ones have nothing new. Not here ... can't find this feature.Most forums that I visit have a button you can click (or this is the default behavior) so that when there is something new in a thread, you click that button and it takes you to the first message that you haven't read in a discussion thread. Not here ... can't find this feature. If a thread has 12 posts, only 2 are new, I seem to have to scroll down to find the new ones myself. Terrible.Computers are good at remembering things. Seems you have decided not to make use of that feature.

In Camino 1.6.7 (see screen shot) the main forum page for Lightroom no longer shows 'Mark all as read' or ACTIONS 'Start a discussion'. They show, here in Safari 4Beta.(Other screen shot).It would also be nice if I could combine my old account from long ago (DonRicklin) that has a post count of 4,544 with my current account with 1545 or so.Don

My post count was somewhere over 2000+ posts before the forum change and now it's 1/10th of that at 289... another poster, I see, has over 200,000 which seems rather skewed. If the web developers who did the change can verify the post counts with a simple query of the actual records based off my user account then they'll see the actual record count doesn't match the number showing up for me under a post.

So are these Jive guys working on the fix for just showing the unread posts. trying to find were you left off is really a time waste. and clicking on the submit feed back takes you to anther Jive forum with no submit form. I'm not impressed.

As someone who belongs to many, many forums over the years, I've gone through a lot of forum software changes. Generally, the vocal majority raise heck about it, but eventually things settle down and people go about their regular forum use with little effort. These new forums are so much "easier on the eyes" than the mind-numbing sea of text we currently have. Some like the new colors, some hate it. Some like avatars & signatures, and some don't. But the reason you come here is for the information, and this new software WILL make it easier to find what you're looking for. Macworld.com switched to this very same software last year. They had an obscenely large user base, all of which voiced their opinions repeatedly, to the point where many simply stopped visiting until the switchover was complete. In general, those that don't like change tend to voice their opinions the loudest. The vast majority though, tend to keep quiet and roll with changes. Today, Macworld's forums are runnin

After applying the various scripts and Adblock page elements blocking, the new forums look very, very good: <br /> <br />c <a href="http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1kh7PYdJTceOSrCTQRbaifku3nd7ke1" /></a> <img alt="Picture hosted by Pixentral" src="http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1kh7PYdJTceOSrCTQRbaifku3nd7ke1_thumb.jpg" border="0" /> <br />c Forum Index Page <br /> <br />c <a href="http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1415Q4LZA1vpwD2HcpwBMdXhf5WjU" /></a> <img alt="Picture hosted by Pixentral" src="http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1415Q4LZA1vpwD2HcpwBMdXhf5WjU_thumb.jpg" border="0" /> <br />c Forum Thread page <br /> <br /> No more avatars, no more "More Stuff Like This" cr@p, no more Community Experts labels, no more Popular Discussions, no more Top Participants, no more points ratings, no more total numbers of posts for each user, no more nonsense. <br /> <br /> My warm

Adobe forums lost the functionality to open the entire message board thread from the google-search results.  It will direct you first to the main page and required you to be signed in first.  AND when you managed to sign in, you are just in the main home page without the result you clicked from the google-search.And even if you are signed in already, clicking the google-searched result pointing to the adobeforums will still lead you to the main home page instead of the actual thread discussion.I hope this functionality will be considered again.  The forums has TONS of sections and products and it will be difficult to use operators here versus the one that Google use.Also the forums has not migrated all the topics especialy in the premiere elements section.

The "search forums" field in the top right of the page currently searches all the forums. It would seem more logical for it to only search forums at the level that the user is currently browsing. Alternatively add a "search this forum" field.

Adobe forums lost the functionality to open the entire message board thread from the google-search results.  It will direct you first to the main page and required you to be signed in first.  AND when you managed to sign in, you are just in the main home page without the result you clicked from the google-search.And even if you are signed in already, clicking the google-searched result pointing to the adobeforums will still lead you to the main home page instead of the actual thread discussion.I hope this functionality will be considered again.  The forums has TONS of sections and products and it will be difficult to use operators here versus the one that Google use.Also the forums has not migrated all the topics especialy in the premiere elements section.

When I look at a thread from the second (or higher) list page of any New Adobe Forum, I can't get back to that forum list. Going "back" (back button or keyboard) always takes me back to the beginning -- page 1.(osX 10.5.5, safari v3.1.2)

I'm in flat, not threaded view. I've just found out that a post can be edited, even after there's a following post - if that post is directed at someone else. Some people using threaded view and some using flat could get very confusing. Hard to know who's talking to who(m).

I finally found the photography forum but it was kind of hidden. Where do you have Illustrator?

In the prefs it is a very broad subscibe to threads I start or subscribe to threads I post in. Well how do you subscribe to just the threads I want to?

The latest content that was posted through NNTP to forums.macromedia.com is missing. My last message was posted to macromedia.coldfusion.server_administration at Sat, 04 Apr 2009 10:34:54 +0200, I don't know who else has posted all through the weekend. (The NNTP interface was enabled until late Saturday.)

The abyss is opening.

Keep trying to add nickname to allow a post and getting xxx already taken. some more exotic examples are DJK543DJK1 All report taken.

We're working on new ways to access the Adobe User to User Forums. Right now the primary way to access the forums is via the web using an HTTP interface. But it is also possible to access the forums as newsgroups (NNTP).

I'm not trying to change it anymore because I don't think I can stop the river. But I am going to miss this clean, simple forum. I think it is one of the best there is. I don't participate nearly as much as some of you do but I'm usually around reading and enjoying. Some of you are quite entertaining. I just hope it doesn't get too pathetic. It would be sad if this becomes not fun or informative anymore. Maybe we could start a new one. But then who wants to run it? Guess all we can do is wait and see.

On this last day of the forums as we know them, and with more fragmented and formal forums awaiting us, I wish to thank you all as fellow members and friends for the time that has passed. This forum of forums has been extraordinary, with an extraordinary sense of community.

This subforum was created as part of the preparations for the forum changes. However, I believe they contain valuable contributions, including observations, suggestions, and considerations. Will they still be here after the change, or will they be lost?

Hi all I see the announcement of forums unavailability. Does this mean come Monday all will be handled via the new format? Or is this simply a refresh and further testing? Thanks...

...take a look at the ANNOUNCEMENT in red at the top of the main page.

Thank you, John, for having developed and upheld these timeless and well designed forums in their present form for so long. When they are lost, swept away by the tide of the current contemporary forum design which will hopefully pass again, some of us shall wish we were back in this golden time. I am sure you know that those of us not welcoming the changes to be, and what we sincerely see as fundamentally inferior in terms of functionality and efficiency as well as in overall design, are the defenders of your efforts, then and now. And as you know, the very same we have regularly, as committed forum members, taken the time and effort to try to help improve what were real shortcomings, sometimes possible, sometimes impossible to mend. And I am sure you know that we appreciate your efforts right now, under the conditions that you know and we do not. And as you know and we know, those that see us as attackers of progress, and worse, are actually the relentless and incessant attackers

Does it work? EDIT: This Works! I took out the "curly"quotes and replaced them with straight quotes. JC