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For anyone who is struggling with this new forum, I just discovered that if you display discussion DETAILS rather than THUMBNAILS, you can see navigation to earlier posts.  Scroll all the way to the right.  The buttons are under ACTIONS.
In THUMBNAIL mode, you only see 30 posts in small boxes with no navigation.  In DETAIL mode, you'll see navigation to the right of SORT BY field.  Unfortunately, I can't conveniently insert a screenshot because the camera icon is not working.  I'll see if I can paste a screenshot below.
Nancy O.

Answer 1

Agreed, it was mentioned in another thread that wasn't part of the port over but it's pretty painful. I can't see from even a basic database standpoint how giving a user a view of their past posts is hard. That's fairly "forum 101" meets "database 101". All the relational information is available. I hope this returns soon.
As for me (Chrome 34/Win7 64) I'm able to edit my posts (some users say they can't), but that could be for other reasons.
Couple other notes..
- I think it was a best intention to provide a view of a discussion with a way to respond directly from the Inbox, saving a round trip to the server, but the inline view is far too simplified. It lacks 'new reply' highlighting, reply numbers, user badges and counts, actions to moderate or mark correct, etc etc. At this point the view is just confusing. Rather than gathering the reply data, reduce that server strain and point it back toward a simple link back to the original full functionality discussion as the default.
- Consolidating all notifications into an orange (with white text?) badge unifying them all is going to cause a ton of server strain. As mentioned in other threads these notifications can be adjusted but I can't even begin to imagine why Jive thought it's practical to remove multiple menus in replace of 1 as well as consolidate all notifications into one, with a huge empty black bar in between:
All of that space in between (depending on browser size) can't be utilized to distinguish a new random reply vs a reply to my own discusstions vs moderation vs etc etc?
Some confirmations, wish list and "me too"s:
- Editing your profile needs some work. I saw my forum username turned into my real name and even setting the privacy of my email to "Yourself" and hitting Preview I could see my name and my company email. That scared me... I logged out of the forums and saw all that information thankfully wasn't going to be scooped by spambots however. Profile view just needs some fixes.
- Discussion history with an simple indicator for new, unread responses. Bonus points for extra highlighting on various events (OP response, thread has been answered, etc).
- Agreed on the actions/documents bar on the left. I think there was all of 2 whole documents, ever, in the Flash forum. I'd like to see a simple collapse/remove toggle or it simply exterminated altogether.
- Font size. Coming from "typography 101", 16px was the old accepted minimum size standard. And then there were devices. Now I'm seeing point size creep lower and lower. Sure, I can increase my browsers font size so I can read important parts of posts, like code. But every time I come here I'll need to increase it to something normal, then reduce it for the rest of the web. I think the size is just too small, especially when fonts are bolded. They're so small the subpixels run into each other.
- Code is everywhere. Some basic support for common code and structure tags is still missing. Color coding HTML, CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript, AE Expressions, etc etc would go a very long way. Even just a scrolling div container with a fixed width font and line numbers would help a ton here, with or without color. While at it, Make a tab, a tab. If I paste in tabbed code I get tables all over the place. If I paste them in HTML edit view they disappear. If I just press tab in the WYSIWYG editor I get spaces. If continuing to allow people to paste tabular data in is so important then a simple <code> directive could save a lot of wasted time reformatting code for these forums.
- Really picky but having the "Add Reply" and "Cancel" button below someone elses post (the one I'm responding to) was confusing at first glance. I thought it should be directly below my own post or attached inside the borders. I had to double check to make sure I was pressing the right button.
- During editing, I really would like to see all the previous responses. Way too many times I'm editing a response I just posted and want to look through the other posts but need to open a new window to the original post. It's very common to see all posts during replying and editing, both.
- Arks of read-only content still exist. Should these be pruned? Some are active topics but are still curiously read-only?
'Nuff for now