b ANNOUNCEMENT: Forums will be unavailable for planned system maintenance starting at 3pm PST on April 3, 2009. New forums will be online on Monday April 6, 2009.
The current Forum, using Web Crossing software, and the current Macromedia Forums, will be moved to the new combined Forum running under Jive software, this weekend. When the Forum comes back online on Monday, all content from the current Forums should exist in the new Forum.
However, the new Forum will require you to log in using your Adobe ID, not the old Forum login currently used in this Forum. Over the past two months, you should have been invited by the system to link your username in this Forum to your Adobe ID. If you've done so, all your current posts will show up in the new Forum with your current (linked) username.
See you in the new system!
Message was edited by: Andrew Yoole - changed title for clarity
Hi Steve,
As you can see, the Forum places your old ID in brackets, denoting that it is not linked to a new Forum ID.
You'll need to log in with your Adobe ID. Once you do, you can set your screen name to whatever you choose (so long as it's unique). Your post count will start from scratch, however.
I'll enquire about what can be done to relink IDs at this point, but there may not be any possibilities at this stage.
I'm really enjoying them too. Despite a few issues (such as a lack of tracking viewed posts) the ability to add attachments, video links, and to post scripts without having them mangled, make this a welcome upgrade for me.
For those who aren't aware, the fixed-width look of this forum is easily changed to flexi-width if you use Firefox as your browser. And you can remove avatars if you want to the same way.
I've copied these instructions from a post by John T Smith in the General Forums section, and edited the scripts to work with the new Forum, rather than the test version from a few weeks ago.
First, you need the Stylish 0.5.9 FF plug-in which you can get from:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2108
Then Eric and Mark Boyd's Scripts
There are two parts:
Eric's "Force Full Browser Width":@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("forums.adobe.com") {
#jive-wrapper {
width:100% !important;
background-color: #ffffff !important;
background-image: none !important;
}
}
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And Mark's (which I have named "Death to Avatars" in my installation!@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
@-moz-document domain("forums.adobe.com") {
#jive-wrapper {
width:100% !important;
background-color: #ccc !important;
background-image: none !important;
}
#jive-body-main {
background-color: #ccc;
}
.jive-thread-reply .jive-thread-reply-body-container {
background-color: #ddd !important;
}
.jive-author-avatar-container {
display: none !important;
}
}
Here's an example of the difference on a 1680-wide monitor::
As promised, I just put together a blog post about the new After Effects user-to-user forum, which attempts to make the transition to the new system easier for us all.
Thanks especially to Mylenium and Andrew Yoole for some of the information that I point to.
Don't know if you guys already saw it or not, but FWIW there is now a GreaseMonkey script that makes the Actions Sidebar collapsible.
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