Adobe Community: IS THIS A WASTE OF TIME?

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1. Günter Schenk,

Nov 30, 2008 3:27 PM in reply to (Paul_Taylor)

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Hi Paul,

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Is it worth us putting ADDT product suggestions here?
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I reckon that those Adobe folks who established these ADDT forums last year must have established the Feature Requests sub-forum with good cause ;-)

Your suggestions are BTW all brilliant, but I don´t think that they´ll become considered in the announced new ADDT release which is declared as "DW CS4 compatibility release" -- I´d be more than happy if the upcoming version would contain fixes of some well-known ADDT V1.0 - bugs fixed, but I don´t think they´ll be adding new features.

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Please Adobe - show some professional respect and let us know one way or the other or pass a message to the forum moderators/community Experts

You cant expect users to blindly support a product without ANY response
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Adobe´s user-to-user forums are usually not monitored by the Adobe staff, so such public challenges are not likely to get heard by the ones you´d like to address with this.

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pass a message to the forum moderators/community Experts
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the Adobe forums don´t have official "moderators" at all, and there´s apparently just one Community Expert around who cares about ADDT ;-)

Cheers,
Günter Schenk
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver

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2. (Paul_Taylor),

Nov 30, 2008 9:32 PM in reply to (Paul_Taylor)

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Hi Günter,

Appreciate the feedback and your championing of the ADDT.

ADDT has a LOT going for it, and in many ways is unmatched for the way it aids dynamic site development. NO other DW extension has such a comprehensive and robust code base at that price point in one package.

Why don't they move it forward?
What message does this give the users?

I have this code in every site I have developed over the last three years and its becoming an increasing concern that the code will be abandoned, just like the Interakt userbase.

Thats why I feel some kind of feedback/dialogue is required - maybe not here - but Adobe should at least set up a proper ADDT support area (or combine with DW support). If not, then that implies the product is not worthy of interest.

Amazingly its not even mentioned in the list of tutorials in the DW support area?? . You'd think there would be ONE "What is the ADDT? link??

What kind of brush off is that?

Alexandru, Bogdan, Ionut, Cristinel - where are you?

regards

Paul

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3. Günter Schenk,

Dec 1, 2008 5:15 AM in reply to (Paul_Taylor)

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Hi Paul,

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Why don't they move it forward?
What message does this give the users?
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unlike before when Interakt was an independant company, the further development of all Adobe software doesn´t get decided by the developers, but is based on suggestions / feature wishes contributed by the users, and that´s why they set up a "feature suggestion" forum and/or have users express their wishes using the "wishform": http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

While posting your wishes to the "feature suggestion" forum you might have noticed that it´s basically filled with "bring back KTML" (or other ex-interakt extensions) complaints, and that your suggestions are the only ones which deal with the further development of what ADDT is *now* -- what message does the overall contents of the "feature suggestion" forum give to Adobe ?

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Amazingly its not even mentioned in the list of tutorials in the DW support area??
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sure it is: go http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/ -- and then click the "Dreamweaver Developer Toolbox" - link in the "Website development" area

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Alexandru, Bogdan, Ionut, Cristinel - where are you?
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in Bucharest :-)

Cheers,
Günter Schenk
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver

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4. (Paul_Taylor),

Dec 1, 2008 6:08 AM in reply to (Paul_Taylor)

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Fair enough Günter :)

Let's be positive for now and I'll try to remembers all of those 'wish it did this' moments and post a few more suggestions.

regards

Paul

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5. Günter Schenk,

Dec 1, 2008 7:05 AM in reply to (Paul_Taylor)

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Let's be positive for now and I'll try to remembers all of those 'wish it did this' moments and post a few more suggestions
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cool :-)

A note to others reading this thread: when it comes to deciding whether a suggested feature will become implemented in a future version or not, this decision will be based on the degree of relevance the feature has to the whole user community rather than to a single user -- that said: if anyone else wants to see e.g. Paul´s suggestions implemented, feel free to add a "me too" reply to the respective suggestion, otherwise the decision makers in charge will not get a clue if it´s relevant or not.

However, as the announced "early 2009" ADDT DW CS4 compatibility release is just that (a compatibility release), none of e.g. Paul´s suggested features are likely to be considered for this version, so whatever new feature gets suggested, a possible implementation can only be expected within Adobe´s traditional "major version" product release cycle of approx. 1,5 years

Cheers,
Günter Schenk
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver

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6. (Kimmo_Kyllonen),

Dec 2, 2008 2:38 AM in reply to (Paul_Taylor)

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Hi all,

Günter is right in that most people around here tend to shoot complaints but no serious suggestions to new features they wish for.

I've found ADDT very good tool in all respects and surely would like to see it improved even further. The documentation could include some step by step examples of the advanced features.

As ADDT is for now, combined with spry stuff and tools like TinyMCE it gets very easy to make sites fast and easy.

So onward with ADDT!

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7. Brad Lawryk,

Mar 12, 2009 8:57 AM in reply to (Paul_Taylor)

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the Adobe forums don´t have official "moderators" at all, and there´s apparently just one Community Expert around who cares about ADDT
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Gunter my man!!!

Make that two now, I finally was able to get my login fixed for this forum. :-)

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8. Günter Schenk,

Mar 12, 2009 10:15 AM in reply to (Paul_Taylor)

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Heya Brad ol´ chap,

I´m incredibly happy to see you coming on board :-)

Cheers,
Günter Schenk
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver

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9. Nancy Gill,

Apr 10, 2009 2:06 PM in reply to (Paul_Taylor)

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In a word .. yes.

Adobe has announced that it is discontinuing ADDT. Read here:

http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/addt/

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