I am with Martin on this, hi Martin.

The threads have become rather messy, with both time and effort being wasted on our having to disregard, or should I say undistinguish, what should not be distinguished from the rest in the first place.

The same applies to Employees.

Whatever anyone wants to obtain, the text under the Avatars must be quite sufficient.

Post counts and points are coming back, and your activity right now is still aggregating towards your scores. I agree that many people use post counts as an indication of who knows most about a topic, but that's not always accurate. The forums certainly do have a great bunch of frequent-posters who know their chosen products very well, but equally you will find engineers with very low post counts dropping by to help with specific questions - they may not say much but what they do say should be correct, as they wrote the program! The points system is intended to help differentiate the 'expertise' of regular users, as you only gain points for helpful and correct answers, but it doesn't give much insight for new or infrequent visitors.

I also agree that  ACPs don't have to know more than anyone else in a thread, but statistically they do know more than the average, simply because the ACP program selects only the best people from the developer community. We also have a responsibility to provide the most reliable answers we can - for example I use Flex but I'm nowhere close to being an expert in it, so I don't answer questions in those forums.

To clarify, there are currently four groups of people on here with some form of special status: employees, ACPs, hosts (moderators) and administrators. These groups are not firewalled; many are in more than one category,  not all ACPs or employees are hosts, and vice-versa. Hosts are not identified by default as  in the past people bombarded them with  messages.

I didn't say it selected all the best people, but Adobe is clear that those it does allow into the ACP program are recognized experts in their fields. It's not at all easy to get in, and we all have to re-qualify every year. Bear in mind there are millions of people using Adobe software on a daily basis, but we can fit all the ACPs into one room at MAX with space for dancing. We're proud of our membership, I won't apologize for that.

Personally I don't care if my posts are gray or white, but Adobe have decided on the layout and I'm simply trying to explain the reasoning.

johnbeardy wrote:

 

"the ACP program selects only the best people from the developer community"

 

Nonsense. "Some of" would be fair. But the point is that posts by "community professionals" are being given undue prominence by this shambolic forum upgrade. Hey ho.

We never see you in tartan here, Phillip.

Then we shall hope that it represents none of the banned clans, Phillip.

Evidently, both are among the approved clans, Phillip.

Will you two stop with the friendly back and forth?

What I'm missing is a slightly different color for the original poster (not as contrasty as this white on grey).

I also find the color of the background of the answers by Employees and ACP distractful, and that could be easily mistaken for a correct answer, even if they might often be the ones that post them. A tone similar to the one that one gets when squinting at the quotes might be better.

Claudio, I think that indeed, most of us are in agreement.

I also liked the subtle alternating backgrounds, but the new uniform look with a line grew on my, given the title of the post that participates in the separation of the posts.

The grey is in line with the rest of the Adobe site, the creative cloud, Adobe.tv, etc.

Noel,

But one thing is certain:  We CAN still communicate with it, glitches and all.

And right now we do it all the time.

Maybe that is the real reason for the new skin: the thread/post count here in the Forum Comments forum was getting a bit low so it was decided to do something to get it going again. That, at least, has been successful.