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Q: More Forum Suggestions

1. Why is it when I'm reading Q & A in a forum (Logic Pro to be specific) and wish to add to a discussion, my Sign On takes me out of the forum to a generic Apple information page? This takes extra mouse clicks and is discouraging for those trying to be of help. "Sign on" should put you back right where you were.

 

2. The whole Community/Forum is 50% (at minimum) slower than it used to be.

 

3. It's now impossible to read posted crash logs.

 

Take a look for yourself.

 

https://discussions.apple.com/message/15232930#15232930

 

 

To answer questions at least regarding Pro Apps we need to be able to read crash logs, we could before why not now?

 

4. Previously, the forum would save drafts of the post being written, nice feature... can it be incorporated?

 

Oh boy... we can add smiley's, now how about some added functionality. The old forum was easier to navigate an looked more professional.

 

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Posted on May 19, 2011 10:38 AM

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  • by Pancenter,

    Pancenter Pancenter May 20, 2011 12:18 AM in response to Don Archibald
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    May 20, 2011 12:18 AM in response to Don Archibald

    Don Archibald wrote:

     

    "Jive cat" used to mean someone exceptional, someone who was 'with it'.

     

    In the Wikipedia definition page for "Jive", there are far more positive meanings than negative ones -

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jive


    Don, look it up in the Mac's Oxford American dictionary.

     

    Origin: 1920s (originally U.S. denoting meaningless or misleading speech)

     

     

    Unfortunately, Wikipedia has things wrong almost as much as it has things right.

     

    pancenter-

  • by R C-R,

    R C-R R C-R May 20, 2011 5:01 AM in response to Pancenter
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    May 20, 2011 5:01 AM in response to Pancenter

    Pancenter wrote:

    It most often means empty meaningless talk, or when said about a musician it means the same thing about the way they play. In 40 years of playing professionally I've never heard it used to compliment someone.

    But had you been playing in the swing era many years before that, you might well have heard it used as a complement, especially among black American jazz musicians describing someone's mastery of what was once the hottest trend in popular big band music.

     

    For that matter, the Oxford American dictionary's origin note may have been more about language intentionally made obscure to prevent outsiders from understanding what it meant than about it actually being meaningless.

     

    How all that relates to the choice of the company's name I'm not exactly sure, but I suspect it may have had something to do with the association of the jive dance style with dynamic & quickly adaptable code.

  • by R C-R,

    R C-R R C-R May 20, 2011 5:10 AM in response to Pancenter
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    May 20, 2011 5:10 AM in response to Pancenter

    Pancenter wrote:

    I guess signing in before doing anything is the only way to go at this time, very inefficient compared to the old software.

    Not necessarily. If you don't sign in then there is no personalized home page, no "Your stuff," no indication of what discussions you have viewed in the past, no "Updated" markers, etc.

  • by romad,

    romad romad May 20, 2011 7:51 AM in response to Ronda Wilson
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    May 20, 2011 7:51 AM in response to Ronda Wilson

    Reminds me of the scene in Airplane! where a white lady asks the stewardess if she needs help talking to two black hep cats: "Stewardess, I speak Jive"

     

     

     

     

     

     

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  • by R C-R,

    R C-R R C-R May 20, 2011 11:00 AM in response to romad
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    May 20, 2011 11:00 AM in response to romad

    If you are old enough to remember the 1950's Leave It To Beaver TV sitcom, you might recognize that white lady as Barbara Billingsley, who played the mother in that idealized, super-wholesome TV family. That made her cameo appearance & the whole jive bit that much funnier.

     

    If you happen to own the 25th anniversary "Don't call me Shirley" edition of the Airplane DVD, don't miss the interview with her in the extras. She talks about working the scene out with the two black actors & how, even though she had no idea what the lines meant, they were impressed with her delivery.

  • by WZZZ,

    WZZZ WZZZ May 20, 2011 12:08 PM in response to romad
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    May 20, 2011 12:08 PM in response to romad

    Word up. Square business!

  • by buz,

    buz buz May 20, 2011 5:12 PM in response to Pancenter
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    May 20, 2011 5:12 PM in response to Pancenter

    Pancenter wrote:

     

    I guess signing in before doing anything is the only way to go at this time, very inefficient compared to the old software.

     

    pancenter-

    I'm no old hand here, but have lurked for many years. Often times I'm out and about the internet searching answers and a link brings me here. The old way was .... elegant. The link brought me to a thread, I signed in and presto chango I'm right back at the thread. There are times when this is my destination to start with a bookmark to the log in page is my start. I'm in total agreement with Pancenter. Really hope this gets changed.

     

    Chat bubbles and a mile of wasted white space right of the threads is beyond me. This isn't some cartoon (or is it).

     

    I don't know about the rest of you, but the scroll bar is sticky for me. Meaning I click/drag it and it doesn't move right away. Once it's moving it's fluid till I let go of it.

     

    Navigating the old forums was effortless. I have no way of comparing, but it seems I'm clicking at least half again as many times to get anywhere (maybe twice as many).

     

    I look in the world around me and see similar 'progress' practically everywhere I look. (sigh)

     

    I must be getting old and crotchety.

  • by rccharles,

    rccharles rccharles May 21, 2011 4:25 PM in response to Pancenter
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    May 21, 2011 4:25 PM in response to Pancenter

    >3. It's now impossible to read posted crash logs.

     

    If you copy & paste the text from a crash log from these forums to TextWrangler, the text will come out looking as you expect.  The text is displayed n a proportional font. Copying to TextWrangler displays the text again in a non-proportional font.  It's free:

    http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/

     

    What I do is click on Use advanced editor

    click on >>

    click on syntax highlighting

    click on plain

     

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    Interval Since Last Report:          444678 sec
    Crashes Since Last Report:           56
    Per-App Interval Since Last Report:  102 sec
    Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   2
    Anonymous UUID:                      88DDA109-E390-4120-B295-826E171C7370
    

     

     

    Robert

  • by Ronda Wilson,

    Ronda Wilson Ronda Wilson May 21, 2011 6:55 PM in response to rccharles
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    May 21, 2011 6:55 PM in response to rccharles

    Maybe I'm missing something, but can't you do that with TextEdit?

  • by ~Bee,

    ~Bee ~Bee May 21, 2011 9:28 PM in response to Pancenter
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    May 21, 2011 9:28 PM in response to Pancenter

    Pancenter --

     

    It's now impossible to read posted crash logs.

     

    I could not agree more.  Having to stop and copy all the text and then put it into another program is ridiculous.

    We used to be able to read them just fine.  Now they're condensed so much, each original line now takes two or three.  Maybe they don't want us trying to read crash reports.

     

    Not many people really try to read crash reports.

    Maybe that's why putting it into another app seems like a no brainer.

    Trying to help out with crash reports in the Safari forums is like having a root canal.

  • by fruhulda,

    fruhulda fruhulda May 21, 2011 11:08 PM in response to Pancenter
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    May 21, 2011 11:08 PM in response to Pancenter

    1. It did that before the forum change too. Most annoying!

    2. I am not sure I have noticed it.

    3. Yes difficult to read. Someone suggested to copy and paste to TextEdit. Why? That is extra labor. Better it works in the forum from the beginning

    4. I am also missing the draft feature, very much!

  • by R C-R,

    R C-R R C-R May 22, 2011 2:48 AM in response to fruhulda
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    May 22, 2011 2:48 AM in response to fruhulda

    fruhulda wrote:

    3. Yes difficult to read. Someone suggested to copy and paste to TextEdit. Why? That is extra labor. Better it works in the forum from the beginning

    To be fair about it, the old AD format was not that great for posting crash or other logs either. Even with its wider replies many log entries, especially ones listing binary image data, would not fit on one line of the reply.

     

    The old format also had an annoying habit of mangling log entries because it interpreted some character strings as markup tags.

     

    If you really want to study a crash or other log, it is best to use something like TextWrangler.

  • by fruhulda,

    fruhulda fruhulda May 22, 2011 5:02 AM in response to R C-R
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    May 22, 2011 5:02 AM in response to R C-R

    You probably know more about it then me but I liked those crash reports that showed the problem in another colour. I didn't have to look through every line to find them.

  • by R C-R,

    R C-R R C-R May 22, 2011 6:28 AM in response to fruhulda
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    May 22, 2011 6:28 AM in response to fruhulda

    AFAIK, the old AD did not have that feature.

  • by Tuttle,

    Tuttle Tuttle May 22, 2011 7:56 AM in response to R C-R
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    May 22, 2011 7:56 AM in response to R C-R

    It did if you posted them within {code} tags.

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