Just me or are the Forums out of whack again?

Not seeing recent messages until 30 minutes to an hour (or more) after the the post time.

It's a mess!

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Are the forum RSS feeds broken again?

W3C validator says the RSS feed - for example for this forum - 'does not validate'.
Thunderbird also complains that the feed is invalid.
Jonathan.

The feed looks okay to me in a web browser, but I'm not using an actual reader or trying to do any validation on it.
There have been a few reports of this in the past though:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/bf143a6c-12bd-41b4-b821-22f101896efa/rss-feeds-offline?forum=reportabug
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/bb6a18e8-76bb-45d8-85e8-d923485c457a/rss-error-feeds-with-dtds-are-not-supported?forum=reportabug
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/24276c7b-1e38-4f28-ad76-af3d32d0ad59/rss-feed-for-itsg-is-gone?forum=reportabug
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I don't want to submit a #@$%^& question! I just want to search the forum for answered questions.

I don't want to submit a #@$%^& question!
I just want to search the forum for answered questions.
Why is Apple such a freaking control freak?
Hey Apple—quit fixing s**t that isn't broken!

You could use google. If you want to only search these discussions forums use the following syntax in a google search:
whatever you are searching for site:discussions.apple.com
Update:
Why is this questio/discussion in Cinema Displays when it should have been in Using Apple Support Communities?

What are the "forum alternatives"?

So if Adobe really does start to come around and consider the fact that this "Jiveware" is not working out to everyone's satisfaction, has anyone discussed or researched the alternatives yet?
Obviously they have had their own internal research but it doesn't mean we can't help and make suggestions based on well functioning examples of high traffic forums that we may have seen on other sites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software
Wiki has a section here (if the link works) with "subarticles" that contains ASP, PHP, and "Other" forum software comparisons.
It's not like Adobe is the only company that has a long list of high volume forums out there--what do others use? I'm sure it's not Jiveware.

They need to forget about pandering to youtube-facebook-twitter-games-playing youngsters with short attention spans. They need to consider what the most valuable members of the forums want and need - those people are the ones to nurture, not the ones who arrive in a panic and don't much care what the place looks like as long as they can get rapid, authoritative help.
The people to consult should be easy to identify, and they are by no means all 'Community Experts'. Whoever makes these decisions should eat humble pie and find out what it would take to get back the real experts who have left. If that has to be NNTP, so be it. If it means speed, reliability, permanent log-ins, stripped-down-efficient-speedy-interface, go back to where you left off - concentrate on that.
I'm not saying that those who mainly ask are not important, of course they are - they are customers and it's important to attract/retain them.
But unless the unpaid 'staff' are in place, ready and willing to answer a lot of questions as patiently and accurately as they always have, the place will just fall apart. It will become a place where link-harvesters and drive-by posters play around, giving each other half-arsed answers and squabbling over points.
I'm definitely not one of the 'elite' of course - so my only real suggestion is to ask the people who matter most, and DO WHAT THEY SAY.

Is it just me or is the forum wonky?

For me, ASC forum qua forum is unpredictably wonky.
At times I've tried to post in a thread and find that I'm unable because I'm not logged in even though I'd just logged in. Try logging in again and still find, according to the thread, that I'm not. Go to, for instance, the mini sub-forum main page and that says I am logged in.
Another example -- I log out and the forum does indeed immediately verify that's the case. Return as a visitor, hours later, to a thread I've never before been in and find that I'm logged in.
There's other things, but I haven't been writing them down.
Is this because of the change in forum software a couple of months ago?

At times I've tried to post in a thread and find that I'm unable because I'm not logged in even though I'd just logged in. Try logging in again and still find, according to the thread, that I'm not. Go to, for instance, the mini sub-forum main page and that says I am logged in.
You need to login. Clear FF caches. Reload problem page. You need an auto reloader.
Here is my ASC work flow...
1) I login.
2) Start an auto reloader.
Unless you do something every thirty minutes you get logged out. The forum software waits to tell you this as long as it can to keep you in suspense ;-) .
I use Firefox and ReloadEvery.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reloadevery/
You need to pick a page that will reload over time without stalling out. It's ASC. I've found my profile display the best to use. I get my Profile page after some logins. It's ASC. Change rccharles to your apple id.
https://discussions.apple.com/people/rccharles?view=discussions
3) I open another window to do my normal ASC browsing.
4) I have a FireFox bookmark to goto the discussions that I have participated in. I've modified it to add on the content stuff.
turingtest2 recommends. Change rccharles to your apple id:
https://discussions.apple.com/people/rccharles/content?filterID=participated~obj ecttype~objecttype%5Bthread%5D
5) Use turingtest2's generated links with the /content suffix as browser bookmark to the ASC discussions:
Site map of Communities and Categories
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-2463
6) I run with Hiroto's modification to user content. This is the only way these forums are readable for me. How to adjust the format and layout of ASC Web Pages:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-7501
7) Read and answer my old posts. I kind of memorize the time I last posted. ( It's way bad that apple eliminated the last poster to a thread. )
8) I use tabbed browsering. From a list of discussions, hold down the command key then click on the link. You get two tabs this way. The original window will keep where you have been.

What are the forums to use

Hello I would like to know what are the most active Forums for Siebel? Is OTN the main stream or other forums exist too?
What forum should I use when it is able loyalty eloyalty and travel and transportation packages?
Thank you

Have a look at the MyOracleSupport Community ...
It looks to me like there's currently more people around than here.
THIS place seems to be quite lonely if you ask me.

HT4623 i updated mi iPhone 5 just now, what are the new features?

what are the new features in the recen update?

iOS 6.1.4 just updates a speakerphone profile to fix an issue with speakerphone on some iphone 5s

Where are the forums for BEA Products? (Service Bus, Data Services, etc.)

There is a somewhat vague message on the old BEA forums saying they have been moved here - along with a link to a non-existent 'Welcome FAQ'.

(In an complete reversal of his previous comment, Hans states:)
I'm not sure whether the Aqualogic Forums have been migrated, or (if they have) what they have been mapped to. Can't find 'em either.
Oracle's recent webinar was pretty clear about JRockit and Weblogic server being the direction.
However, for Aqualogic - based on that same webinar, my misinterpretation is that Aqualogic is one of the 'merged' families, where the best of breed is being chosen for each subset or solution area. That may be causing a delay in the forums being transferred and/merged.
Hoping Oracle comes up with a document that clearly maps both the products and the forums. The list of products is
BEA AquaLogic User Interaction
BEA AquaLogic BPM
BEA AquaLogic Integrator
BEA AquaLogic Service Bus
BEA AquaLogic Data Services Platform
BEA AquaLogic Registry Repository
BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Security
BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Repository
BEA AquaLogic Service Registry
BEA AquaLogic Commerce Services
BEA AquaLogic SOA Management
BEA AquaLogic Pages
BEA AquaLogic Ensemble
BEA AquaLogic Pathways

Are the fold out prongs the same across Macbook chargers, iPad chargers, and the AA charger?

I don't own an iPad but I found out that the fold out prongs on Macbook, iPad, and AA chargers are interchangeable and work with each other. The extending cord also works with the chargers. However, I have no idea if they are the same inside or actually carry invisible differences that can blow up my battery and destroy my Macbook. Can someone confirm they are same?

The duck heads and extension cords are interchangeable. But the chargers themselves are quite different: you cannot use an iPad charger for your Macbook and vice versa.

Is it just me, or are the Apple Discussion servers having trouble today?

I've been strugling with Safari problems all day, and coming here looking for solutions, I'm constantly getting "We're sorry, Apple Discussions is temporarily unavailable", the entire discussion section seems to be offline as much as it's available today, and the darn thing has crashed several different browsers on different operating systems....
Is there some massive spike in usage? (because Steve's back? - glad to hear he is! because Safari is driving people crazy? or is it really just me?).
Hope this message goes through before it freeze up again...

Eric W. wrote:
No, it's not just you
We are aware and we are working on getting a stable solution in place.
I wish you folks well & understand that a stable solution takes time, but just for the record as of now (midday U.S. CDT) the response time is still extremely variable, from eye-blink fast to well over a minute, & has been like this for the last several days & nights. I'm an insomniac (or as I like to describe it, "unstuck in time") & as likely to check Discussions at 4 AM as 4 PM.
Perhaps you folks can (carefully, humbly) talk to marketing & get a bigger labor & hardware budget well in advance of each major product release, on the grounds that when Discussions gets flaky, product image suffers? Perhaps work up a dramatic presentation using two actors, one dressed in a suit & another more casually ....

Are the forum bugs geting worse (if that's possible) ?

{color:#000080}For several days now, we have been facing the Mystery of the Null Posts -- respond, click Post, see nothing.
Well, today I posted a response, saw it, and when I went back OP had replied -- but my post was no longer there.
So now we have the Mystery of the Disappearing Posts.
The topic thread is
{color}{color:#0000ff}http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5221464{color}{color:#000080}
and the response that went missing was between #2 and #3.
db{color}

Darryl.Burke wrote:
{color:#000080}For several days now, we have been facing the Mystery of the Null Posts -- respond, click Post, see nothing.
Well, today I posted a response, saw it, and when I went back OP had replied -- but my post was no longer there.
So now we have the Mystery of the Disappearing Posts.
The topic thread is
{color}{color:#0000ff}http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5221464{color}{color:#000080}
and the response that went missing was between #2 and #3.
db{color}Oh delightful.
Expect this to get worse before it gets better.
Once upon a time (about 2 years ago now... I think it was the fall of 2005) there was a similar problem. Posts would routinely go missing. Then eventually some threads couldn't be posted into at all. Then whole forums couldn't be posted into.
Eventually (after about 3 weeks) one could only post into a few of the stupid forums (J2SE CAP comes to mind, maybe another one or two).
And it carried on like this for about a week while I carried on conversations mainly with myself in the stupid forums and nobody else posted.
It was fun.
Eventually after about a week I delivered a bitter diatribe on the state of the forums and the fact that nobody could actually post anywhere and after a couple of more days it got fixed.
As an aside in my diatribe I told them (Sun) where they could shove it (it being these forums) and that I wanted my account deleted because I didn't want to be associated with their shittiness. And that's how I became cotton.m

Visual Basic Forum - Is it just me or is the Forum not updating when a post is answered so the post bumps to the top of the first page?

Maybe this is an issue with my webbrowser, though I doubt it, or maybe it's an issue with all forums currently due to some new "update" that again requires testing by microsoft end users in order for microsoft to debug issues the end users have
to find for them.
La vida loca

Maybe this is an issue with my webbrowser, though I doubt it, or maybe it's an issue with all forums currently due to some new "update" that again requires testing by microsoft end users in order for microsoft to debug issues the end users have
to find for them.
La vida loca
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Are the Forums Woking?

I posted "My brother-in-law has a HP Pavilion (750???) ; he thinks that's the model number.... Anyway, his system says it is a Windows Whistler Personal Edition (or something like that) and running the Windows XP Home Edition. Is Windows Whistler different than the regular Windows XP Home or is it different? We have been unsuccessful in our attempts to install Java. Any ideas? Thanks.".................... But Have Not Seen it posted yet, so I don't know if it went through or not.
Brendi

Your thread was deleted because you are in the wrong place. Please find a Windows support forum for your Windows support question.
There is no point in responding further to this thread because it will also be deleted.

Are the forums in Greenland then?

Posts appear to have a timezone of GMT/UTC - 2 hours, which would mean the servers are in Greenland. Or maybe Cape Verde?. Cape Verde sounds nicer than Greenland but I don't suppose much work would get done, Greenland probably has more room for data centres also.

Okay I get it. I had to set my own timezone, which I hadn't done. When I do that the time comes out correctly, my fault. The interesting thing is, and the reason I noticed it is that if you do not log in, the default is PST, but if you do log in and have not set the timezone you end up being assigned to Greenland.

Is it just me or are the idiot "Windows support" calls coming back.....

If I was a scammer, I would. So many are confused about Windows 10, so it's a prime time for it.

Just got my second one it 10 minutes. I guess the release of Win 10 is bringing back the slime!
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