New Forum Guide ?

Is there an Adobe Community forum specifically for forum layout and use issues?

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There's so much about this new "upgrade" which seems to have gone backwards. and made it less useable

e.g. latest poster in each thread has gone, link to jump to latest post has disappeared.

I did not think it would be possible to have a poorer forum editor then the old jive editor.  Now the add image icon is grayed out video is still possible however it looks like it still only supports some video sites not one own site.  On the positive side the god awful integration of most user unfriendly spellchecker no longer interferes with the spell checker I use in Chrome.  So my appends in the future may contain fewer typos.  I can not type spellcheckers only catch typos when they make bad words they do not catch typos that create valid words like when your one key off and type nor not not.

Navigation seem harder too. Its different any way and change is not always easy. Perhaps I'll find a way.  I liked the way I could click the discussions in the old forum format pull-@down and see the  threads  I was appending in.  Now clicking discussion in the pull-down starts a thread.

The only way I have been able to include an image in an append it to upload it to my web server then add an image tag  to my append.  Since the picture icon is still in editor but grayed out perhaps some day it will become active ....

Gone too seems the be the this  append has been edited  check box.

JJ,

I'm with you on the images. I use screenshots to save me hours of typing in replies. The inability to add them is going to mean I don't reply to a lot of things I used to.

Navigation is awful too.

I've been through the help and it's apparent that this new format is designed for people on phones. EVERYTHING references keyboard apps and sidebars for phones. That would make sense if ALL Adobe made was software for phones... But these are DESKTOP apps. Even Flash Player is no longer available for Phones, so WHY build a forum specifically for people using devices that have NO ABILITY to access or use the software being troubleshot?

I guess that's the next step for CC?

It's not all bad.  I now have a full editor interface on an iPad, so for example I can make words bold.

But yeah, it needs the ability to upload images or it's completely useless.

-Noel

I can not type and the guide line still state include screen shots.  So far the only good thing I see is Chrome spellchecker is no longer disable on this site.

Supply pertinent information for quicker answers

The more information you supply about your situation, the better equipped other community members will be to answer. Consider including the following in your question:

• Adobe product and version number
• Operating system and version number
• The full text of any error message(s)
• What you were doing when the problem occurred
• Screenshots of the problem
• Computer hardware, such as CPU; GPU; amount of RAM; etc.

it's completely useless.

 

-Noel

Every discussion filter returns no match only no filter shows discussion. I can not filter forum for thread I'm participating in.  If I go to my profile it only shows a few of the new ones.  Editor check message edited by gone.  Quote previous append now need to be done with copy paste. So I'll quote you out of context.

Is there a way to jump to the last post in a thread from the Discussions view?  I've not found it yet.

-Noel

Powered By Jive do you feel the power Trevor use the force.

Oh, this is bad without screen shots!  Not only do I rely on them heavily to explain things, but we need them to know what the OP is talking about most of the time.

Screen Shot

That's weird, but good.  The image icon is enabled now!!!

csuebele wrote:

 

That's weird, but good.  The image icon is enabled now!!!

I though it would be for it was still there but grayed out.  I see quote are back as well. Yet others changes still don't see to work and useful features have been removed,

Something else I'm REALLY, REALLY, REALLY ticked off about.

My PMs are ALL GONE.

And they wiped out nearly ALL of my my bookmarks.

This is like starting over.

I'm surprised they didn't just put EVERYONE back at 0 posts and 0 points.

I think the new Inbox replaces the old PM.  I have now turned off the inbox stuff for my account.

Mike M wrote:

 

I'm surprised they didn't just put EVERYONE back at 0 posts and 0 points.

But that's what they should do! Just get rid of this whole "status" silliness once and for all. Points, MVPs, the lot. Really, who needs it? Does anyone seriously believe that's why people answer questions?

This whole business of "status markers" has irritated me from the start. It gets in the way of a free exchange of knowledge and ideas.

Mike M wrote:

 

Something else I'm REALLY, REALLY, REALLY ticked off about.

 

My PMs are ALL GONE.

And they wiped out nearly ALL of my my bookmarks.

 

This is like starting over.

I'm surprised they didn't just put EVERYONE back at 0 posts and 0 points.

Yep, I hear you. I lost all my PMs as well. This is a bad update - I do not mind the new layout that much, but loss of good functionality and content is never a good thing.

Ah well, Jive is pretty bad as it is. I may be around a lot less now.

twenty_one wrote:

 

Mike M wrote:

 

I'm surprised they didn't just put EVERYONE back at 0 posts and 0 points.

But that's what they should do! Just get rid of this whole "status" silliness once and for all. Points, MVPs, the lot. Really, who needs it? Does anyone seriously believe that's why people answer questions?

 

This whole business of "status markers" has irritated me from the start. It gets in the way of a free exchange of knowledge and ideas.

But that's why I answer questions! So I can climb above people and feel their squishy faces as I step on them! 

Seriously, though, I find nothing wrong with it. It just provides incentive and nothing more.

It was kind of like that in the last version. Sometimes it would show and other times it did not. I guess they removed last poster for now.

If moderator can not the administrator definitely can. Oh, I just noticed Firefox's spellchecker is working in this forum now. Yea, much better than the forum's or at least last version anyway.

Trevor Dennis wrote:

 

This is getting annoying now.  You can't see who the last poster was

Getting that back has to be top priority now. That's beyond annoying - it cripples basic user functionality completely.

And while they're at it, let me just remind everyone that the old web-x software (pre-jive) had the ability to jump directly to first unread post in a thread. So don't tell me that's not possible. Here we can't even get to the last post.

But the basic problem is outsourcing things like this. Once a functional forum is up and running, what can they do? Yeah, change it, that's what.

For any thread that you replied to, you can see who replied last on those threads in your inbox.