Is The New Forum Design In Transition?

I've got to say, the forum just feels broken as it is.
And I'm not just talking about little formatting glitches needing cleaning up. I'm talking about the fairly significant number of features that have gone missing, such as listing who a reply is to, listing the post and points counts, etc.
More broken than it did.
My question is this:
Is what we see what we're going to get, or are we in transition to something better?
-Noel

Dave Merchant wrote:
Yes, and yes!
Thanks, Dave - I guess. It's the terminology that bothers me I think... This is not just a "re-skin".
"Skin" implies colors, shapes, sizes - but not functionality.
This recent change is therefore more than a "re-skin" of the old forum. I have to say, I don't mind the colors and layout - it's usable. And I understand the need for modernization, though I didn't see a real need to change the look before getting the functionality working better.
We seem to have entered the era of UI simplification. Not long ago someone somewhere came up with the term "cognitive overload", which always seemed like a backhanded way of saying "most folks are too stupid to deal with a lot of stuff on the screen at once", and so everyone began simplifying their user interfaces. Hell, Microsoft even stopped making their Windows OS actually do windows. Kind of a slap in the face to people who yearn for more and bigger monitors just so they can get more stuff up there for use "at a glance".
I urge everyone to think of the derivation of Albert Einstein's immortal comment:
"Make everything as simple as possible, but no simpler."
-Noel

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What's wrong with the new forum design.

Thought I'd kick off the list here.
1. O.P. can award a correct answer to themselves.
2. Status stays hidden unless checked, making it hard on both newbies and those trying to help them
3. No advanced search (that I can find) I've given up even trying to look, and users aren't even aware of it
4. Difficult to see what you have or haven't replied to
5. Can't see very far back in the threads
6. Huge waste of space on useless quote bubbles
7. Trying to edit your own settings takes you round in circles
8. Where is the forum how-to and guide?
9. Absurd to ask users to search without a suggested list to work from, the Pages iPad users are constantly landing in the wrong forum
10. I hate the default of sending email advisories and Safari messages of answers in the forum. My Mail Inbox is inundated and I am getting constant pop-ups interrupting my work on my Mac.
…many more but I'd like to let others add to the list
BTW I give 2 thumbs up to the improved post formatting options, but that was a long overdue catch up to other forums.

Don't have time to answer all of this, but here's a start...
1. O.P. can award a correct answer to themselves.
Useful when they've come up with the correct answer themselves. (OPs can't award themselves points, though.)
3. No advanced search (that I can find)
https://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa (or click the blue Search button in the top right of any page without entering any text in the search field)
4. Difficult to see what you have or haven't replied to
The equivalent of My Posts is here:
8. Where is the forum how-to and guide?
https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/index.html
10. I hate the default of sending email advisories and Safari messages of answers in the forum. My Mail Inbox is inundated and I am getting constant pop-ups interrupting my work on my Mac.
https://discussions.apple.com/static/apple/tutorial/email.html
Good luck!

NEW FORUM DESIGN: Post Feedback Here

Posting everything in one place will allow Comcast to better monitor what feedback is given.

andyross Member Since: ‎10-17-2003 Posts: 3,647 HORRIBLE Forum updateShare Topic Options Subscribe to this discussion Are you deliberately trying to make the forums so hideous that nobody will use them? The subject text is so tiny, I can barely see it, plus it's virtually impossible to see the difference between read and unread. The subject listings have a huge amount of wasted space between them. You could double the number of on-screen lists (or shorten the scrolling) if you cut it down. There used to be a link on the right that would take me back to the Bookmarks page (what I use as a home page for these forums.) No easy way to get back there that I can see, other than directly from my browser bookmark. At least the text entry seems to properly work with Firefox. Posted on :‎03-09-2015 05:22 PM Kudos 0ReplyFollow Options ResponsesReply Posted byWelcome_to_Post Member Since: ‎07-02-2003 Posts: 5,381 *sigh* Happens every. Single. Time. They downgrade upgrade the forum software. Too bad no one listens to us. Posted on :‎03-09-2015 05:26 PM Kudos 0Reply Options Posted byQueen-Evie Member Since: ‎02-04-2004 Posts: 14,621 One not-so-wise new "feature" is that when a topic is more than one page long the FIRST post of the topic is now at the TOP of each topic page. If that post is long that is just some extra scrolling to do in order to get through it and to the replies.And if you are at the bottom of the page and scroll back to the top you gotta get past the first long post on your way back up the page. There is no clear demarcation between posts. Posts are no longer numbered. About the only things that are good are that the toolbar features when replying now work with SeaMonkey and Firefox and other browsers AND the default font size seen when composing a reply is big enough to easily see instead of being teeny tiny as it was before. Yippee!!! No more nose prints on the screen when trying to see what I was composing.
Comcast employees must be authorized to post in the forum in an official capacity. Employees posting here have their names in red and are designated as employees. Names not in red are customers. This is done to protect customers and for assurance that they are dealing with a Comcast employee.
Non-Authorized Employees are allowed to post but cannot state they are employees nor can they allude to being employees. Posted on :‎03-09-2015 06:40 PM Kudos 0ReplyFollow Options Posted byQueen-Evie Member Since: ‎02-04-2004 Posts: 14,621 Do me a favor. Repost this here http://forums.comcast.com/t5/Xfinity-com-Website/NEW-FORUM-DESIGN-Post-Feedback-Here/td-p/2490433 After you do that, I will lock this topic. To anyone else who wants to post feedback do so in the topic I linked to.

The New Card Design for the Barclays Ring.

I’m here to announce that the new card design has been finalized and it will be ready for new cardmembers in late July and existing cardmembers beginning in October. Here’s a quick recap of the very fun and innovative process that we went through together to co-create the next Barclaycard Ring card.
In 2014 we asked cardmembers in an open forum to describe what they liked and didn’t like about the design of their current Barclaycard Ring card. We received hundreds of comments and passed them along to our design team.
This resulted in the following plastic designs
Option 1.pngOption 2.png Option 3.png
Incorporating your feedback, the designers created a three dimensional view of the card designs, which we posted in the forum for more feedback. This round resulted in four unique plastic designs that were presented for an official vote.
Voting results.jpg
The winner, with 42% of the voting Ring cardmembers, was card design #1. We also noticed cardmember feedback regarding concerns about the font choice for the most popular card design. We took this feedback to the design team and they presented four more options to the internal team. We picked one and now it was time to see how these designs looked in reality. About 10 weeks later we got a “proof”, or an example of what the card would actually look like. And I will tell you that it did not look good. Luckily, one of the designers went out to visit the card production vendor. They worked with the design and the production process to get as close as possible to the original design.
And here it is:
C11_card_rRGB_RingMC_EMV.png
We hope you like it! Thanks to everyone who voiced their opinion and helped to shape the new design. And, yes, it is a chip card. (Interested in learning more about the Chip and Signature with PIN enabled technology? Click here for additional details.)
So who will get the new plastic and when?
Starting in October 2015 cardmembers who made at least one purchase in 2014 will automatically receive the new plastic in the mail. Your credit card number and the security code on the back will not change. However, if your expiration date is within a 3 year window, your new card will have a new expiration date. So you will need to remember to update any recurring billers, online merchants or digital wallets with the new date. Your old card will still be valid until sometime in early 2016.
Cardmembers who did not use the card to make a purchase in 2014 or became Barclaycard Ring cardmembers in 2015 will not be automatically re-issued the new card design. If you’d like the new card (with Chip technology), you can call the number on the back of your current Ring card after August 1st and request the new card design. Otherwise, you can wait until your current card expires and you will automatically receive the new card in the mail. We may also choose to automatically re-issue the cards in the future to cardmembers who still have the original orange card.
I hope all of that helps. Of course if you have any questions just leave it in the comments below. Thanks again for participating in the design of the new Barclaycard Ring card!

I'm apart of that community and I was shocked to see that this is all they could come up with. In todays market with the different plastics available this to me is very quaint. Not appealing and to think they had a committee and designers and all that... it's truely disappointing!

Welcome to the new forums

Welcome to the new forums for GroupWise 2014. You can find more information about GroupWise 2014 at http://www.novell.com/products/groupwise/
Here you can ask questions, share experiences, and talk to others about your 2014 experiences and/or get the information you need about upgrading to this new version of GroupWise.
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I am trying to download the new CS6 Design Suite - not able to get past the previous version.

I am trying to downloat the new CS6 Design Suite and am not able to get past the previous version menu. Getting the message "This serial number is not for a qualifying product. Please try another." How do I get past this?

When you say "Download" do you actually mean install?
Which version are you upgrading from?
Could you try the solutions in the following article: http://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/error-serial-number-qualifying-product.html.
Let us know if it helps.

Is the new forum harder to navigate?

I haven't been here in a few months. For years in was my regular stop 4-5 times a day. Is it me or is the new forum very confusing and a real hassle to navigate? I mean it was a real pain just to post this!

gjmnz wrote:
Does any know what the difference is between the Discussions Tab and the All Content Tab? Apart from one shows which threads you have viewed and which ones have been updated. Is it a double up for nothing?
There's a forum for discussing the forum... kinda meta:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/using_apple_support_communities
I started a thread asking that very question: "What is the difference between 'All Content' and 'Discussions'"
The answer is just as you said, double up for nothing:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3000868

Can't paste onto the new forum...

For some reason I can't paste anything into the new forum, which is rather annoying since typing out log files is a bit tedious. Anyone know how to fix this?

Don't know, do you get any errors? Perhaps you can't paste because you didn't copy something first? How old is your keyboard?
I do know that your question probably will end up here:
https://forums.oracle.com/community/developer/english/technology_network_community/community_feedback_and_suggestions_(do_not_post_product-related_questions_here)

Love the new forums... but

love the new forums... but hate the performance. Keep in mind my internet connection is 20MB/S download speed, there are times the pages wont even finish loading and you have to stop and reload again and/or very slow loading times. Of course, there are times the performance is as expected, but rarely. I hope Adobe plans to support the forums with better hosting.

jon@cmiwebstudio wrote:
love the new forums... but hate the performance. Keep in mind my internet connection is 20MB/S download speed, there are times the pages wont even finish loading and you have to stop and reload again and/or very slow loading times. Of course, there are times the performance is as expected, but rarely. I hope Adobe plans to support the forums with better hosting.
As an od adage says: "Don't feel like the Lone Ranger".
which means everyone and his , brother, sister, Aunts, Uncles, mothers's and Father, and cousins on the Acrobat forums are complaing about the Speed.
There is really we as Users of the Forums can do about it other than complain and hope adobe will do something about it when they get finished with their easter holiday. Maybe that will be before their 4th of July vacation.

The new forum software

Folks,
Lets take a vote. Do you just love (10) or utterly despise (-10) the new forum software?
-8
Against
1. It's kitchy.
2. It's buggy.
3. Source code is HARDER to read than ever.
4. They should have adopted wiki markup.
For
Ummm. RTF is kinda cute, I suppose.

i like the look and feel, but i have to agree that the speed is not wonderful.
of course i have a lot more tolerance for slow these days, since i became
a full time DBA and some of our runs literally take days.

I like the new forum

i havent been able do any programing for over a week
i came back and see the new forum
my question is how would i convert this to a applet
class Art {
Art() {
System.out.println("Art ");
class Drawing extends Art {
Drawing() {
System.out.println("Drawin");
public class Cartoon extends Drawing {
Cartoon () {
System.out.println("Cartoon");
public static void main(String[] args) {
Cartoon x = new Cartoon();

Hello xlightwavex,
To convert your application into an applet you need to create a class that extends the java.applet.Applet class. Below is the complete applet version of your application Cartoon.
class Art {
Art() {
System.out.println("Art ");
class Drawing extends Art {
Drawing() {
System.out.println("Drawin");
class Cartoon extends Drawing {
Cartoon() {
System.out.println("Cartoon");
public class CartoonApplet extends Applet {
public void init() {
Cartoon x = new Cartoon();
However, like your application, this applet sends all output to the system console (the DOS window in Microsoft's Windows for example). If you want the output on the applets panel itself you will need to update each class and replace the System.out.println methods. The applet below shows how you might do this, this is just one out of the many ways you might do it:
import java.applet.Applet;
import java.awt.*;
class Art {
public String toString() {
return( "Art.");
class Drawing extends Art {
public String toString(){
return( "Drawin, " + super.toString());
class Cartoon extends Drawing {
public String toString() {
return( "Cartoon, " + super.toString());
public class CartoonApplet extends Applet {
Cartoon x;
public void init() {
x = new Cartoon();
public void paint(Graphics g) {
g.drawString( x.toString(), 25, 25);
The output of this program verifies that a Cartoon object, Drawing object and Art object have been constructed. The output is show below, which appears on the Applets Panel:
Cartoon, Drawin, Art.
Is this output just helping in debugging, or is it vital to the applet? If it is for debugging purposes, the System.out.println method is a good way of doing it. If not, do you need the output to appear antwhere in the applet? If so, it is hard to create output from the object of which other object can inherit - it is not the usual way of doing it. Otherwise, the above CartoonApplet is a good way of getting information about an inheritance model.
I hope this helps.
Best reguards
-Marek.

Nobody INobody I spoke to likes the new Notepad design we all liked The Yellow spoke to likes the new Notepad design we all liked The Yellow Notepad can we go back ?

Nobody I spoke to likes the new Notepad design we all liked The Yellow Notepad. Any thoughts ?

I much prefer the newer design.
Nobody I spoke to likes the new Notepad design ...
... until now.

What About Moderators in the New Forum?

Read the spam thread for awhile and you will see that moderation works well in these webx forums
You will also see messages concerning the LACK of moderation over in the cfusion side of things
Will the new forum software/structure allow for "this" moderation to continue, or will it fall away to "that" style of non-moderation?

Actually, on that note: how does one double-check that they've managed to link their user here with an Adobe ID?
The first umpteen dozen times I tried to do this the login to the Adobe ID would time out -- something I frankly get quite a lot when I try to login anytime with my Adobe ID. I'm not sure what's going on there.
I just tried to link my users here a few minutes ago and got the same time out. So I opened another window and tried logging in manually somewhere else. On my fourth or fifth try (after double-checking the password with the 'forgot your password?' function) it went through. Satisfied I had the right user/pass combo, I went back to the timed out page and hit fresh. It came up with some window asking to confirm I wanted to login with my (correct) Adobe ID and I said 'confirm'. So I *think* I'm linked, but I don't see any visual cue. At least, it doesn't ask me when I login anymore.
At any rate, is there way to verify it at our end? It'd be nice to have that peace of mind. Also, it'd be nice if I could find out why I timeout 90% of the time I try to login with my Adobe ID -- is it just that overloaded with users logging in?

Difference between the TABs "All Content" and "Discussions" on the new forum?

Hi,
Does anyone know the difference between the TABs "All Content" and "Discussions" on the new forum? They seem to be the same. I'm confused.
Petey

Petey,
Though I was part of the forum update beta, there was some that we could not effectively test, plus some aspects (like "Like"), that some liked, but others did not. That sort of thing happens.
Also, now that we have the full version, and all servers are synced, there will probably be things that the beta testers did not get to experience. We will all be learning, in the process too. Also remember, much of the new forum software was provided by Jive, and though many of us commented (pros and cons), only so much could be addressed. It was not quite like doing a beta on Adobe software, as there was a complete, separate layer in between.
So far, what I see looks close to what we saw a few weeks (months?) ago. Now, I need to really put the real software through its paces, to see what got changed from then, until now.
Good luck,
Hunt

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