Still cannot work out why some people are not seeing the "Use advanced editor" link above the tinyMCE editor widget when replying to a message. I've tested it on IE, Chrome and FF on several machines and always get the link, as shown in my earlier screen grab. However it's obvious from the screengrabs posted by Phillip and Noel that they are not seeing the "Reply to...-^" message either, so it appears that the entire line is absent. It's generated by a script attached the various "Reply" links so there may be some client-side JS blocking to blame.
Just looking over this page to ensure I'm on the thread I think I'm on, and I don't see the thread title anywhere...
Half the stuff the forums used to provide is simply missing...
Stuff doesn't fit right...
Some of the color combinations and font choices leave something to be desired...
I'm not trying to be critical or embarrass anyone, but the question begs to be asked: Did anyone actually test this software before upgrading to it?
-Noel
adobe-admin wrote:
(23.) The MORE link on the thread list on the Overview page takes you to the Disussions page which makes all the breadcrumb links point to Discussions.
I don't see such a link...
For instance in http://forums.adobe.com/community/flashplayer/installing_flashplayer we previously had tabs with 'Overview', 'Discussions', 'Documents', etc.
Now I see a Browse pull-down with such options. But when I select Discussions from there, it takes me to a completely unrelated list of topics (http://forums.adobe.com/threads).
Also, I cannot see any way to customize a forum now (previously under Overview).
Now in http://forums.adobe.com/community/flashplayer I suddenly see something "Trending Questions"; what does that mean?
@Noel - the thread title is also shown on your web browser window title, so for me it says "Adobe Forums: Known Issues in new skins - Mozilla Firefox". I know very few people pay attention to the window title, but hey.. they should now!
@Phillip - Yes, the skin was tested. I won't comment about how much it was tested, but testing there indeed was, and I for one did that on a small-screen laptop as well as a cellphone. My opthalmologist is even now working out which department to send the bill to. ![]()
@Pat - the tabs for discussions/overview/videos/polls etc are no longer displayed to regular forum users. That is intentional. The "Browse" dropdown menu takes you to the top-level of the forums - NOT the 'tab' within the one you're currently looking at (that's how it always worked).
To get to the Overview page for a forum, click the next level up on the breadcrumb list (at the top of this page the list says
Adobe Forums > Adobe general forums > Forum comments > Discussions so you'd click on "Forum Comments".
To get to your personal overview page, visit http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa?view=overview
"Trending Questions" is newspeak for "Recent Activity", though not everything that trends is actually a question. You can tell by the color of the speech-bubbble icon.
Dave Merchant wrote:
@Noel - the thread title is also shown on your web browser window title, so for me it says "Adobe Forums: Known Issues in new skins - Mozilla Firefox". I know very few people pay attention to the window title, but hey.. they should now!
Thanks for that, Dave, I do have it up there; I just hadn't noticed it.
If this is by design unfortunately it's a broken design. With Internet Explorer the page title only shows up in tabs (and nowhere at all if you don't use Tabbed browsing) UNLESS you have a 3rd party package that puts the page title in the window title (I do have that).
It's almost as though the people redesigning this forum have no web experience at all and only test in one browser. Did they just hire a bunch of kids?
-Noel
The front page (Overview) is supposed to be showing the Trending Questions widget. Some places haven't been updated yet and still show Recent Discussions. Recenet Discussions has the "more" text link that goes to the Discussions list. Trending Questions has the "more" button that expands the list but stays on the Overview page.
Sorry about the confusion on that one.
Quick feedback after a few days with the new skin, apologies for not reading the entire thread. Might be some dupes.
Those are some things off the top of my head. Rootin' for you guys, though, this stuff isn't easy.
Ok. I found some kind of remedy for issue #2, specifically the thing, that I cannot bookmark a specific answer in my browser.
Just looked in the source code of the specific answer and could detect a message number.
For example:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4393262#4393262
Source:
that leads to:
So it's all there. Please re-implement the message title, so we could bookmark it without looking to the source code of the thread or message!
Uwe
New Issue SiliconePixel (and verified by my self) has following issue I believe it’s a bug with new system.
Go to MyStuff > Preferences. Attempt to change time zone or to change email notifications. Responses when pressing Okay/Save, a red bar with error message and the changes not made. In Fact just click okay or Save causes the error message.
Before the changes there was no error.
The mouse didn't show in my screen shot, but putting the mouse over the word "Report" on the right side of the message brings up the status line highlighted. You can use that in a link, such as...
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4395320#4395320
That said, the numbers/links are coming back soon.
adobe-admin wrote:
2. No "in response to" or item numbers/links in messages in a thread
I just tried to write a line to tell someone to refer back to a previous post in the same thread, and I was going to write "please see post #3". Zzzzzt.
Is the fact that the posts are no longer numbered what is referred-to in item 2 of the issues list? If not, please add "missing post numbering" to the list.
-Noel
Another oddity... in the Premiere Pro forum, the bottom of the page no longer has further page numbers in the lower right corner
Now, centered on the bottom of the page, it says MORE... which, when clicked, loads more messages... another MORE at the new bottom, and more messages
Are ALL the forums going to go to that?
John T Smith wrote:
Another oddity... in the Premiere Pro forum, the bottom of the page no longer has further page numbers in the lower right corner
That seems to be a difference between entering the forum with ?view=overview or ?view=discussions in the URL... An inconsistent presentation to say the least.
http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premierepro_current?view=ov erview
http://forums.adobe.com/community/premiere/premierepro_current?view=di scussions
-Noel
I believe the large More button that loads more messages is the way the designers want it to work. Some spaces might still have a different widget in place that has a small text More link that moves you over to the Discussions page instead of staying on the overview page.
Thank you! Here is another one....
At the top of the forum http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa there used to be a tab (View?) that allowed searching for forums. Now we have merely the big icons for the main forums, plus a drop-down list of some additional selected forums.
However, there are many more forums; if we don't have them in our bookmarks, how do we find them? (Of course there is always Google...)
If you personalise your homepage, you can include the tree-view widget that shows every forum (along with anything else you want).
http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa?showpersonalized=true
Pat Willener wrote:
At the top of the forum http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa there used to be a tab (View?) that allowed searching for forums. Now we have merely the big icons for the main forums, plus a drop-down list of some additional selected forums.
However, there are many more forums; if we don't have them in our bookmarks, how do we find them? (Of course there is always Google...)
adobe-admin wrote:
Issues reported in the forums that are being worked on:
...
- Not showing count of user messages next to their names in a thread
Or anywhere else, it would seem. It's not in their profiles either.
Incidentally, when I clicked on the Reply button of the opening message of this thread to post this message, I was not taken to the last message but here:
I had reported the same problem before these great changes, but nobody seemed to care or take notice.
Since the background is a variable, I propose putting a single line of black pixels around images. When the background was white one could, I suppose, anticipate that and do something artsy to blend images into the background but now (since it seems wont to change) that just seems silly, and ultimately could cause confusion... Just note how the top part of Claudio's screen grab above is undifferentiated from the background.
This will no doubt downsize, but I think it will illustrate what I'm talking about:
-Noel
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