What’s with the cartoon look on the forum?!!!
:chagrin: Well it didn’t post my comments. This style of forum is pretty common now (at least where I hang out), so this is a little old looking to me. :sealed: Well, I don’t know about using these! Hopefully the slowness of these forums is just because of the changeover. Drather have speed than spiffy good looks in most things.
Hopefully – seems to vary, in my part of the world the speed is comarable with most other "kids" forums but much slower than it used to be unfortunately. All the "designer" baggage like background GIFs add to the overhead.
Tom change your fonts and their sizes in preferences – I like the new design, with some tweaking its much more readable than it was before
What I like is the ‘all’ option…lets you see all the thread at once. Should be the standard option, I think.
Speed issues it’s reasonable we wait some days to judge.
I thought the Adobe Forums looked much more professional before.
I miss being able to see how many new messages there are. All the emoticons just take extra time to load.
HOLEY MOLEY! This is the first time I’m looking at this through IE (5.5 – WinNTsp6a & Win2k SP4). At home I use XP Pro and Mozilla 1.4, The type is TINY!!! How is anyone supposed to read that?!!!
I’m assuming it’s a style sheet problem. I hope. Man. The borders, etc are contracting as I type. This is weird!!!
This will definately take some getting used to…
The forum front page still works using ‘Ctrl-scroll wheel’ to increase and decrease font font size, the individual forums do not allow for this. :frown:
You can set your font sizes under preferences…
On Sun, 17 Aug 2003 01:26:22 -0700, "Roseanne Minasian" wrote:
What I noticed right away is how long it took to scroll down the first page to look at new messages.
my hint:
get usenet -> adobe.photoshop.windows
get pure text information, without crappy webforums 🙂
cheers
Lan
Ps: at least i post here via usenet and not via a forum
Dave,
I agree that changing the browser preferences is a PITA, but that’s not what I meant. I just went into the forum preferences and changed it. I can always change it back later if I need to, in the meantime, it’s not hard to read <shrug>.
Now if they could only do something about the slowness of the forum. Sigh… improvements – dontcha just love ’em?
All this discussion about the fonts, the graphics etc. seems entirely moot to me.
The speed of the site is now sooooooooo fantastically slow that I have no choice but to go off and do something else. Life is too short …
Agreed, the load time is now abysmal!
Do ya’ll think that, just possibly, the speed issue might have something to do with the fact that they’re working to change things over? That page requests have been shunted to a different, slower server? That there are more things going on than meets the visitors’ eyes?
Try exercising a little patience. Speed will return.
Now, you dang kids go on outside and play!!!
And this forum is supposed to be better….how, exactly?
(And emoticons? How lame is that?)
Phos:
You are right. We should be patient. My excuse was that I went away for a week and, on my return, this was one of the first Web sites I visited. I didn’t really realise how "fresh" it was.
I notice the look seems to be changing from minute to minute …
This is awful! There are so many things wrong with this new layout I will not waste my time enumerating problems, because it is not about fixing this less good new layout. It is simply about going back to our previous excellent forum layout that was not broken. And fixing the speed is not the only problem, even though it is a critical one. The whole approach is many steps backwards.
[Cross post from the Mac side because I feel strongly about this and want to do whatever I can in the hopes that Adobe gets the message]
Since I am probably older than most Forum users, I hate to sound like a silly curmudgeon when I say, let’s go back to the "good ol’ days." The new design looks extremely amateurish, especially in light of the fact that Adobe prides itself in "state of the art" graphics and design. Quite disappointing…I was actually looking forward to this face-lift, but now complete reconstructive surgery seems like the only vialble option!
DB~
Dennis: Adobe was never known for having great designers. I think this is a perfect example of having all the software, a little knowledge of design and not much else.
I know the forum hosts all had input on this design, so I will have to think twice about any opinions they have, other than technical ones.
Actually, I already know they were consulted, but whether they were heeded is another matter.
I did suggest that the sticky’s be distinctly separated from the threads and this is on John’s "To Do" list. Hopefully they will get around to that.
just a reminder… they’re asking for feedback and suggestions in the comments forum. we’ve (ps windows) been disparaged as not caring because there’s no thread here about the temporary reverting back to the old look.
Please voice your opinions and concerns in the forum comments forum. They DO take the time to consider well written, thoughful suggestions. No rants please! (TDO, THIS MEANS YOU! 🙂 <kidding brudda!>)
dave
I am interested in the great stress on this being a moderated forum in the message saying that you can no longer edit later. Were people using edit to slip in naughty things later?
In the case of the late, lamented Adobe Magazine, though, the people who created that knew quite well how to put together a good-looking, easy-to-read, content-heavy piece of work. Sure wish they’d resurrect it.
I have half of the 1996 issues, and a couple from 97. Wish I hadn’t let go of the others. I still refer to them for inspiration and ideas.
they also added a cussing filter so that questionable posts will go to a moderator.
It doesn’t work very well. It let me use the words "Marketing Department".
Yeah it originally flagged the word _riggin with an "f" in front, and then used those funky characters to imply I was really cursing. Then a few days later it was returned to normal.
Sigh. Every attempt at control has its downside.
YrbkMgr wrote:
Yeah it originally flagged the word _riggin with an "f" in front,
sounds like a sex pistols song…
Jay
Frigate
Frighten
Frigid
Frigg (Goddess of the heavens, wife of Odin)
Frigidaire
Frigorific
ID,
It’s not profanity, and a FAR FAR cry from "LMAO" which is okay to use.
Let’s not put words into my mouth, because that’s not sanitary.
<shrug>
Please make sure that you register your opinions here:
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link to first topic. no edit. bad user. bad!
