Well, this'll take some getting used to...

[Ho]

I've looked at this for awhile now. So far, I don't like it.

Anyone else?

[Eric Purkalitis]

What's with the cartoon look on the forum?!!!

[Tom McDanel]

Silly and hard to read...

[ID. Awe]

: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.

[Mark Reynolds]

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

[Enrique Ivern]

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.

[ellie brown]

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.

[dave milbut]

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!!!

[Trevor Morris]

This will definately take some getting used to...

[ID. Awe]

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:

[YrbkMgr]

You can set your font sizes under preferences...

[YrbkMgr]

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?

[Colin Walls]

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 ...

[Trevor Morris]

Agreed, the load time is now abysmal!

[Phosphor]

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!!!

[dennis johnson]

And this forum is supposed to be better....how, exactly?

(And emoticons? How lame is that?)

[Colin Walls]

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 ...

[Allen Wicks]

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]

[Dennis Brody]

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~

[dave milbut]

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