Imminent Forum Demise

Yep, looks like it is!

Hmmm, I like the forum's new look. I like being able to post screenshots and pictures too !!

I also like being able to edit my posts...

To see the full screenshot, click on the picture...

Yep, even those these are up a day early (at least here on the US west coast) they're a mess.  It wouldn't let me use my old screen name or any variation so I had to do this name, with which I'm not happy.  Anyone know how to change that?

And of course the text box for typing these HAD to be flash-based.  *sigh*

http://cid-af5aec0e9ab4b07b.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/.Public

What I'm saying is that I like the look of the new forums over the old bland forums.

I haven't had a chance to thuroghly go over it yet. But you do have a point about audio files.This is a forum about audio software, and being able to post audio clips should be mandatory. In the meantime though, I have posted some old music samples of recordings I made back in the '70's at a website called SkyDrive supplied by MicroSoft. They give you 25Gigs of space on the web, to store and share stuff. It's like having an off site computer hard drive just for safety backups.

You should be able to access the recordings at the above link.

For more information about SkyDrive goto....

http://www.windowslive.com/Online/SkyDrive

Hmmm.... I came back to the office and find my email inbox full of notifications of all your replies.  I did not subscribe to this thread.  Well, I didn't intentionally subscribe.  We'll have to see about this one.

I did notice the missing FAQ, but figured that's because all the links are broken.  Well, silly me, on second thought links weren't what made that forum work.  So major oopsie there.

RE Eric S 1: My old login consisted of my screen name and Adobe store password.  That was refused for this forum.  We were warned of this some months ago, that the merge of forum and store logins was coming and to update our account accordingly.  After several attempts, I finally got in using my real name and Adobe store password, which then automatically connected me to my screen name identity.

Remember, Audition is the one product Adobe refuses to promote for itself, so that's why there's no ability to upload mp3 or wave clips!

While it's easy to point out the shortcomings of the transition, at least this launch, at this point a day early, isn't the unmitigated disaster of the last attempt to "upgrade."  So maybe there's hope for the problems at hand.

Nice that the place got a nice paint job, but for all the graphical advantages of this system, what really counts does seem to be lacking: threads viewed per page defaults to 30 regardless of what you set it to, and posts per page doesn't seem to be alterable beyond the paltry 15.  Tell me I'm wrong!  Makes speed reading take longer.  At least all replies show up sequentially regardless of where you hit the "reply" button.

Now I know: if you create a thread or a reply to an existing thread, by default you are subscribed to email notifications unless you go into your profile preferences and disable it.  Personally, I find it very irritating to have that many emails, so the choice is obvious.  Interesting change of procedure without my input.

Where is the sub-forum for older versions of Audition?  Is this the point that all previous versions of Audition and Cool Edit are jettisoned?  Maybe that can still be corrected too.

This is a test of out-of-sequence posting.  I hit reply to Ozpeter on page one, and this reply does show up chronologically.  That's good, I think.

I know I'm off in the wilds of Australia but I'm finding this new format pretty slow to load when I click on a new thread or hit the "Reply" button.

Also, anyone else slightly concerned that Audition doesn't merit it's own graphical shortcut on the main "Forums" page and has been relegated to the second division "use the drop down menu" apps?

Bob

And have any of you noticed the "points" system implemented?  On calrec's thread about the installing Cool Edit on a new hard-drive, there is a point system listed at the top of the post - 10 points for a correct answer and 5 points for a helpful answer.  Why?

SteveG(AudioMasters) wrote:

 

I don't think that it's inherent in BT connections because I often check the forum from a BT-provided system and I don't have any difficulty with it either. And that's not exactly a million miles from DaveK's location...

OK, couple of clarifications:

Other PHBB forums are fine, it's only Audiomasters I have a problem with.

And when I say BT I mean BT's internal network web filters, not BT Internet. It works fine from home over BT Internet,

Dave

PS - couldn't see how to quote the posting I was replying to!

PPS  - as you were - found it.

PPPS - and just tried AM again  - it worked, once, then next time it got blocked.

Hi Dave,

Could you give it another shot?  I've changed some things that possibly could have caused the problem.

A few years back we actually made a switch to a different forum software, SMF.  If you still cannot login and see the AudioMasters, could you visit the link below and see if you have problems there? (This is the SMF developers forum)

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php

Hey guys, this is not looking good for me here.  Bob, this loads somewhat slowly on my new work computer, but absolutely grinds my home computer to a halt.  I don't know what kind of programming is in use but it is demanding, to say the least.

I had to go away and let my computer (an old P3 running XP and IE7) have time to load these pages.  This computer is not about to be replaced -- I just can't fork it out for better one right now -- and the fact that I can smoothly participate in all kinds of other forums on it, but not this one, is quite the shock.  The end result is that my presence here will be sharply curtailed.  Unless ya'll wanna take up a collection er somethin'.  Just sayin'.

Interesting that having 7 tabs open at once consumes at least half of my CPU when I'm doing absolutely nothing.  Typing pegs it to 100.  Ridiculous.

Steve, as always, thanks for your comments.  I can't understand the permanent loss of the FAQs.  Hopefully we're wrong.  Add to the disappointments the sluggish behemoth that the programming of these pages makes my computer.

Remember when computer programs used to be simple?

Later.  Thanks for everything.

I've tried some different browsers. IE7 and the alternative brower bases on IE7 are slow and lagging. But Firefox 3 is quite smooth. That happens in other web Flash application (like Flash game) that lagging occurs in the "older" browsers. Perhaps IE8 / Opera / Safari will give some preferable result. But I'm using the IE7 for some web page layout reason. Also IE8 still has the character code and unintented cookie clearance issues.

So far I haven't even be able to use the editor on Opera. Quite ironic, since it's generally regarded as the most 'standards compliant' browser out there. But where o'where do you find properly written webapps these days... Some have claimed the editor is Flash based - well I can't see any Flash here - and actually that could have been an improvement since it would look and work exactly the same on all platforms (even Linux) and in all browsers then...

Despised7 wrote:

 

Hi Dave,

Could you give it another shot?  I've changed some things that possibly could have caused the problem.

 

A few years back we actually made a switch to a different forum software, SMF.  If you still cannot login and see the AudioMasters, could you visit the link below and see if you have problems there? (This is the SMF developers forum)

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php

Hi Despised,

Whatever you changed seems to have fixed the problem, it's working fine now.

See you all in the other place!

Thanks,

Dave

I wonder if there are any backups for the message archives that had been in the Adobe Forums.  If Adobe really is discarding several years worth of discussions, FAQs, etc., it is quite an unnecessary waste.  I tried checking the "Wayback Machine" on archive.org, but its coverage of the Adobe Forums is very patchy.  Maybe it would have been better not to divide discussions into categories tied to specific versions of the software.  If someone at Adobe decides, "Audition 1.5 is old, so let's delete all the messages in that category", it would have been better just to have a general category that does not name software versions.

A lot of the discussions I see under version-specific headings are not really version-specific anyway.  I saw things like questions on dynamic range compression under "Audtion 2.0", and 32-bit versus 24-bit formats under "Audition 1.5".  Due to a user's quirk of posting these in one forum or another, the messages either got deleted or didn't (if under the "Audition 3.0" category, which was preserved).

For the Audition General Discussion, is the set of messages fairly complete from before the transition?

And also if you click on "stop email notifcations" for a particular thread, nothing happens and they remain on even if you've changed your default preferences. I've now put forum mail on my spam list to get rid of it.

It appears I am *not* able to stop e-mail notifications when somebody posts here, even if I turn it off. (The feeback after hitting the button is kind of ambigous (major FAIL in any software design!), so I've tried all options to be sure). Since I do not want my Inbox to be littered by all your writings (not that it's your writing per se that's trash, but you know), could you all just please STOP posting ???

(Yeah, right. Thanx)

Has anyone found any way to give some people in charge some feedback on this?

The 'submit product feedback' seems to be just a way for the company to collect other's ideas for free - it doesn't lead to any support / FAQ or actual feedback (as in negative feedback) options that I can see.

This sux

Good for AudioMasters, but I participate in other forums here too...

Otherwise, have a nice Easter holiday everyone! Off now.

Sorry guys, I don't feel any need for navigating subject lines like:

Re: New message: "Re: Imminent Forum Demise"

Nor for having to scroll to see whether a post is a followup to something I

posted ....

AND: getting all this in email clutters my online version of my mailbox and

makes it in-navigable. Some idiot probably wanted to flash flash prowess

....reminds me of quite a  few computer games that started with a lot of

gameplay and ended up containing only empty graphics.

   Kind regards

   Peter Larsen

I too was getting the e-mails all the time.  Then I went to Your Stuff>Preferences and chose to stop receiving e-mail notifications.  I haven't received any since.

Making e-mail notifications the default is really stupid and annoying, especially for folks who post on a number of different threads.

I have to agree that it is ridiculous for forum users to have to wade through entire threads to get to the unread posts.  I also agree that it is blindly stupid for Audition forum users not to be able to post audio files.  This, to me, is an obvious indication that the forums were designed by the Flash/Photoshop/Premiere folks, who might not even be aware they have an audio section of the company.