Slowdown in ASC forum pages.

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• How to stay Signed In in ASC forums?

  With our first Apple -- a MacBook Pro with Mountain Lion -- these forums have been helpful on a few confusing issues.
  But each time I get an email that someone has replied to one of my ASC discussion threads, and I click on the link in the email, I have to Sign In again in order to Reply.  And then I'm directed to a different ASC page and have to click on the email link again.  Why can't this be set so that my browser automatically Signs me In whenever I come to these ASC forums?
  My browser is Firefox 17.0.1 with NoScript, AdBlock and Better Privacy.  Apple.com is permitted in NoScript, and cookies are permitted for apple.com and discussions.apple.com, and I already have a cookie for each.  (Edgekey.net is NOT permitted in NoScript - who are they?)  I am writing this (and I access these ASC forums) on a Dell Optiplex 755 with Win XP Pro SP3.  (The new MacBook Pro is my wife's.)
  I am NOT going to use a different browser - I really like these security programs in Firefox.
  So what should I do?
  Thanks.

  Well, Mr. Wasley, that certainly is a definitive answer.
  But why is it so?  Other forums permit automatic log-ins with cookies.  Or, if I must log in, I am redirected to the page I was on.
  The new Apple devices my wife purchased last year are super (and super-expensive), but there is always this controlling "my way or the highway" ethos when we get to the very end step of what we truly want to do.
  It's all a bit annoying, isn't it?

• Disussion Forum Pages Are Not Designed Well - What's Up?

  In the Discussions Forum, the fonts in Safari don't get smaller or bigger when the larger/smaller font button is hit. On this site the buttons compress the line spacing but don't reduce the font size. You can't make any of the Discussion Forum pages appear right in Safari. It seems that the problem is with the design of the Discussions forum pages, as other websites behave fine; when I want a larger font, I hit the button and things scale correctly.
  Curiously the smaller/larger font button in IE5.2 Mac works, and all of the Discussion Forum pages looks better.
  This is the messiest looking that I've ever seen the Discussion forum look. I haven't been in the forum for some months, so I don't know when it last behaved correctly. This is the kind of problem that I would expect if the pages were designed on a PC using MS products and never checked for compatibility with other browsers , and whatever they look like to Mac users is whatever shows up - it's their problem.
  Who's designing these forum pages, what software is being used to develop these pages, and who checks them for design and compatibility?
  I'm using all of the latest software (OS and Safari).
  Thanks - A very long time Mac user (18 years).
  iMac G4 Superdrive, 60GB iPod   Mac OS X (10.4.8)  

  I apologize. It's not the page design. I figured out how to fix this. It's due to a pref setting in Safari.
  In Safari, go to Advanced Preferences and uncheck the Universal Access (never use fonts smaller than 12). I don't know whether this was a default setting or I changed it to make other web pages stop loading the teenie weenie fonts that show up on some pages.
  Again sorry for the insults to the designers
  PG

• Main forum page hosed on Safari

  Aside from the other format changes in the individual forums, here is a screen capture of what I see on the main Adobe Forums page.  I am perfectly willing to admit the problem is in part due to a problem in Safari.  However I question just how much testing was done before the latest change.  (No, it doesn't look like this when using FireFox.)
  For what it's worth (not necessarily a great deal) the w3c validator lists 68 wrrors and 46 warnings.  More testing please.
  MacPro
  22 in Apple Cinema Display
  OS X 10.7.4
  Safari 5.1.7 (7534.57.2)

  Bob_Peters wrote:
  Aside from the other format changes in the individual forums, here is a screen capture of what I see on the main Adobe Forums page.  I am perfectly willing to admit the problem is in part due to a problem in Safari.  However I question just how much testing was done before the latest change.  (No, it doesn't look like this when using FireFox.)
  For what it's worth (not necessarily a great deal) the w3c validator lists 68 wrrors and 46 warnings.  More testing please.
  MacPro
  22 in Apple Cinema Display
  OS X 10.7.4
  Safari 5.1.7 (7534.57.2)
  I see this in SeaMonkey, Camino, Firefox, OmniWeb, Opera, OperaNext,  Chrome, Safari, and iCab.

• After posting a question on the community forum page, will I be notified when an answer appears?

  After posting a question on the community forum page, will I be notified when an answer appears?

  Yes, it will be in your mailbox unless you setup not to receive.

• Forum pages scrolling extremely slowly

  Hi,
  Since a few days, the forum pages are scrolling very, very slowly in Firefox (and a little bit faster in IE, but it's slow anyway). I don't have any problem scrolling pages in other fora or web sites. This only happens when scrolling pages in the Adobe fora.
  Any change in the forum software? Any idea?
  Thanks in advance.
  Patrick

  pwillener wrote:
  Samoreen wrote:
  Never mind.It was a problem with the View | Zoom command.
  Actually it was extremely slow yesterday; it took me some three hours to answer about 10 posts in the Flash Player forum.
  For some reason it is much better today..
  Perhaps the eclipse?

• Is there anyone from ASC (moderators perhaps?) you can contact if harassed or insulted in the ASC forums?

  After reading the ASC terms, it seems they are more for show than actually enforced. If you do a google search on any user who has been rude, you can easily find endless threads of the same tone which have been left as is. Can trolling/bullying be ignored and does it comply with terms? 
  In my own experience, it seems as though repeat offenders are free to carry on.  If anyone is being bullied or harassed whilst using the ASC forums, is there a way to contact the appropriate people in charge of maintaining these terms?

  You need to be a Level 2 user before you can directly report a post as being in violation of the terms of use. Until then, posting in these forums is your best avenue.
  I can assure you that the Hosts do monitor the forums, but with thousands of posts to sift through they can't read all of them, so they depend on users notifying them of problems. They also have to make judgement calls as to when a post or thread crosses the line and should be removed. Given the language and culture differences with users here from every country in the world, what can seem rude or harassing to one person may just be low language skills or a difference in how things are phrased on the part of the writer. The Hosts do the best they can to balance between allowing abuse and censoring too much.
  If there is a specific post or thread that you feel is indeed abusive, post the URL in this thread and we can, as Klaus said, direct the Hosts attention to that thread. They may also contact you via email as a result of your first post, though again with thousands of posts to have to deal with they may not have time.
  Regards.

• Creating a Forum Page in Dreamweaver

  How do I create a Forum page in dreamweaver? I am not
  familiar with designing pages that website viewers may add content
  to.

  Dreamweaver has no facility for creating forums. Your best
  bet is to look at one of the free forum application packages, like
  phpBB for PHP or Snitz for ASP.

• Grey spot in the middle of the forum Page?

  I am just curious?
  What's the deal with the grey spot in the middle of the forum page. It got me worry for a second, I though my monitor was going bad.

  Do you mean this grey spot?
  It's just Adobe's page background.

• Why does this forum page look like this?

  It's only in Safari. It's fine in IE 11.
  It's only the Boot Camp forum page too, no other 

  Thanks that seems to have cured it 
  I wonder what that's about? 

• Forum Page Design

  The latest page design does not work for graphics displays lower than 1024x768, you get overlapping headers. Something I mentioned in the past.
  In IE9 you can hit f12 or go ro developer tools and under the size heading for IE to display differing resolutions. So this is what the forum page looks like at 1024x768 see the headers on the right overlap the headers on the left. Not good UI design at all.
  This is what the forrum page looks like at at a size of 1280x768 - so the UI designers of this forum really have defined a minium of 1280x768 to be able to view without jumping through hoops to navigate. Makes you wonder who really tests this stuff?
  Cheers

  Yes they would, but it's not the smaller text that is the problem it is having two sets of links (Right Under Photoshop General Discussion that is the problem. Look at the 1024x768 image I posted the two halves of those links overlap.
  But someting is not right with the overall design. A good design will detect the browser agent and serve up content based on that agent, so for IE9/Chrome etc you serve up format to match, and if you detect a mobile/smartphone browser you serve up the correct images, text etc to make it readable and usable.
  If Yahoo can do it, anyone can, but you need to put thought into what you are serving content to, not rocket science and has been around for quite some time, so indeed not a new concept
  MK

• HT1665 Recently read on a deal site forum page that you can only use Apple lightning cables to charge iPads running iOS 7 or higher. Is that the case or will any 8-pin to USB cable work? Thx in advance for any helpful replies.

  Recently read on a deal site forum page that you can only use Apple lightning cables to charge iPad Air or iPad Mini Retina running iOS 7 or higher. Is that the case or will any 8-pin to USB cable work? Thx in advance for any helpful replies.

  Due to a lot of bad press that Apple was getting due to burnt chargers, shocked users (the electrical kind...), etc., due to the lousy third party El Cheapo brand generics, as of iOS 7 the cable must be Apple-certified before the iGadget deigns to use it for charging purposes. Unfortunately (for Apple) the old traditional USB to 30-pin cable is just that, a straight piece of wire, and can't be validated by the iGadget. But lo & behold, the new gear uses the new Lightning cable, which contains an embedded chip that CAN be validated and lousy imitations disabled from use.

• Turkish section of this forum page, why not?

  Turkish section of this forum page, why not? Please excuse me? but you have to be ...

  Nicolas.Gasparotto wrote:
  >The international language of the IT industry happens to be English. 
  That's true, there's must be a common language, and it happens to be English nowadays (not only for IT though).
  But on the other hands we can reverse the question: why is there a Japanese, a Chinese, a Korean and a Russian forum ? Does this mean that people from these countries do not speak English ? I doubt.
  That said, as far as I can see from those forums, they do not contain many sub-spaces, and they are rather not very in use.
  Nicolas.
  I was actually rather surprised at the list of non-English spaces.  When I went to look at it, I was fully expecting to see a list that looked like it correlated to percentage of the Oracle customer base.  Maybe it does, but if so, I would have expected to see India on the list. 
  "Not very (much) in use"
  Just a speculation, perhaps they are not much in use because the international language of IT is English.  Perhaps the reason those exist at all has more to do with Jive defaults/recommendations than any well-thought-out plan by the Oracle staff.  If that's the case then it is futile to attempt to read any meaning into why a particular language is or is not on the list.

• Forum pages timed out!

  Hello Laura,
  in the last two days, i am effectively avoided access to the NI forums at certain hours of the day, especially around the Californian afternoon (corresponding to 8pm to 2am in Europe).
  All Ni forum pages  simply time out, both in  IE6, 7 and Firefox 2. and yes i have checked my internet connection is very fine.
  Most of my free time (when i have some) is when my family is asleep, and i like spending it in this forum, so i urge you to look into this.
  Thanks!
  ... And here's where I keep assorted lengths of wires...

  Just got one of these
  Ben
  PS That could make a nice "Emoticon".
  Message Edited by Ben on 12-19-2007 09:39 AM
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  I am currently active on.. MainStream Preppers
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• Reminder on forum pages about awarding points?

  This isn't for me, since at this rate I will be a Level 4 in something over 600 years, but I was wondering if there could be some kind of discreet and short (clutter avoiding) but highly visible, reminder or announcement on the forum pages, themselves, about awarding points and the points system.
  I realize that for most helpers here the satisfaction of helping someone, and maybe even getting a thank you, is enough, but a thank you can be made more meaningful with very little effort.
  Many new members are oblivious, don't bother to read the Help and TOU, at least not very carefully, myself included when I first registered here. I see so many not bothering to award points I think, not out of indifference, but simply because they aren't paying attention. Often a question will be marked answered, but no points awarded - not simply to close off the thread, as in some cases - but when there has, in fact, been a genuine solution.
  Could there be some form of gentle reminder, avoiding pushiness, at the top of each of the pages? I know there is already the "Solved and Helpful still available" in the actual thread, (and "Answered question, Unanswered question with answer points still available Unanswered question at the bottom of the page"), but I think for many who haven't understood the points system to begin with, these may not even register- or be very noticeable.
  If this has already been discussed and dismissed please excuse.

  Eric W wrote
  We are looking at changes in the future to make it clearer to everyone (new and older users alike) on how the system works.
  Thanks Eric; could this include, possibly, some sort of simple notice at the top of the forum pages (as described above, discreet, non-pushy, non-manipulative and, short)? I don't see how this would violate "other forms of encouragement are frowned upon." It would seem to me Apple has everything to gain by creating a more "encouraging" climate for helpers to do their work here. As it is, it must be somewhat frustrating at times.
  A Brody wrote
  Come in here more often if you feel you have the knowledge of how to offer the best answers.
  I'm not sure what this is supposed to mean. With respect, A Brody, am I detecting some needless sarcasm, or am I misunderstanding? I certainly don't presume to offer the "best answers." Is making a simple suggestion presumptuous of me?
  You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink.
  Agreed. But I wonder if the horse even knows the water is nearby.
  People come in here with varying levels of free time. You can't expect everyone to be able to spare the time to mark a thread one way or another.
  How much extra time does it take to mark a thread one way or the other? Wouldn't many more people do this only if they were made more aware?
  Everyone would and should carefully read the lengthy Help and TOU. But human nature being what it is, most people, especially people interested in finding an answer to a more or less urgent question. are not going to take the time for that. They might, however, pay attention to a short notice.