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July 26, 2006
Adobe Forums Changing
For those of you who visit our forums often, you should check out this post that outlines some of the changes that will be coming to the Adobe forums... Summary: We're moving to the older Macromedia format for forums, which will allow us to do some much cooler things than we're able to do now with the software on adobeforums.com. Look for many good things to come from this change.technorati tags:adobeforums, adobe
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That's great news! I frequent the forums but I have to say in all honesty, it's hard to find a worse structure forum on the net today. Threads, searching, almost everything that makes a forum a tool was absent.
I can't wait!!!
Mike,
Are you in a position to provide any details about these improvements you speak of?
The current forums are not being received well by those users who have grown used to the WebX forums. There are three or four issues that are so egregious that unless something is done very quickly, we're going to lose a lot of valuable members:
1. The wasted screen real-estate. The current design is so full of itself that it loses sight of the primary need to encourage communication.
2. The system makes it hard to determine which messages you've already read, taking you to the start of each conversation every time you visit it.
3. The system won't permit posting of images.
4. The system forces you to log-in time after time.
I have been reduced to using a newsreader to interact with the system. That at least lets me see the recent posts without having to trawl through messages I've already seen, and it is very responsive, but frankly, I hate using newsreaders. They're just too impersonal, somehow.
FuseTalk seems to push people to newsreaders; indeed, the standard reply to complaints so far seems to be: don't worry about the rotten web interface; use a newsreader. This is going over like a lead balloon and causing unfortunate hostility.
Dave
For that matter, have you been following the forum comments in the Adobe and MM forum comment sections? There is a great deal of concern being shown there by the users of the Adobe forum.
Perhaps some level of discomfort was anticipated, but things are quite rabid in some of the questions.
I suggest the time is coming soon for someone from Adobe to make some comments to cool things down, and let people give the new forums a chance.
Don
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