Blackmagic Forum

Hey guys, I am currently learning to use Davinci resolve to edit my youtube videos, and I can't help but notice that your forum design is almost 2 decades behind the times.

Reminds me of being a teeny bopper in the lates 90s. Have you ever though about upgrading to something like this:
www discourse org

Im telling you, this sort of thing is important when trying to garner new converts to your products.
When NLEs like Premier and Final Cut have state of the art (well, mabye not premier) community forums and yours reminds people of time when boy bands roamed the earth, you may not be as competitive as you could be.

I am a currently employed professional software developer and can help you for free if you need it (the only thing is it will take longer ... But that doesn't seem to be a problem).

I so very much agree. I am very grateful there is a forum, of course. That said, so much stuff gets learned quicker by a better platform. You can even link directly to stuff in your help menu and allow people to post to the forum from things they are stuck on. There are so many other great things about https://www.discourse.org. It helps incentivize people to be more helpful and can import phpBB databases. I had multiple forums in phpBB, and they have yet to modernize their forum platform with things browsers are capable of.

I am so grateful that Steinberg switched their phpBB database over, and they still have all their old threads without losing stockpiles of precious info from users. Is there any talk of making this switch?

The Adobe forums suuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkk!

I hope BMD never goes there.

And this is better? Seriously?

Not a fan of the newer Adobe forums platform. But the OP does have a solid point.

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Jim Simon wrote:The Adobe forums suuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkk!

I hope BMD never goes there.

+ 10000000k
I stopped to used them be cause finding infos is a waste of time, and often you find half answer or diplomatic info from adobe guys that not want to admit bugs or inefficiencies

I ever used other forum to find adobe support, not official forum


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In my opinion, we have an excellent forum here.

Yeah, there are no complaints here about the users or the content in the slightest. I don't want to be a new kid on the bock and complain. I agreed and wondered if there was any talk about migrating this to discourse. If you have used it, you will know what wonderful it is. There are a few key points that are super easy.

1) In-line editor with a preview on the side, no code to click or make lists like this.
2) You can drag and drop images and see them right away.
3) You can highlight multiple things you are replying to all at once while you are typing, and it autoquotes them and makes it so you can answer.
4) Badges and awards for various accomplishments of helping people and participation.

There are so many more things, but that is at least a small list of what I was referring to. The people make all the difference, and I didn't know that about Adobe's forum. That doesn't sound very pleasant. I am not on their forum, but it looks like they use Jive. I haven't found anything better than discourse; no, I don't work for them or associate with them I just love how great it is to use.

You can try it out here
https://meta.discourse.org/t/free-hosti ... urse/60250

rNeil H wrote:And this is better? Seriously?

Than the Adobe forums?

HELL YES! By several orders of magnitude.

The participants or the forum software?

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Jim Simon wrote:

rNeil H wrote:And this is better? Seriously?

Than the Adobe forums?

HELL YES! By several orders of magnitude.

I think you may still be referring to the people and not the forum software. They both get you from point A to B, but one is an airplane, and the other is a car.

skillet wrote:I think you may still be referring to the people and not the forum software.

Nope. The software. Whatever Adobe is using is just awful!

This forum is clean, functional, easy to use and wicked fast.
Everything a forum should be.

OP and others

OK here's my take - I have been a member of, and running, numerous forums since 'back in the day'.

I've used all sorts of forum software so I know what's good and not so good. But I'm not old and set in my ways - I use social media for professional and community engagement and discord and other forum software for community engagement.

The overwhelming lesson I can ASSURE you of is that changing forum software from something that works / is supported does NOT and will NOT improve the quality of a forum. Might look 'modern' but that's irrelevant. The strength of a forum (or indeed ANY community) is ENGAGEMENT - the quality of answers.

If you can explain how changing software will:
- get better answers
- get quicker answers, or
- make you a better editor
then please do.

(This is not a dig at anyone, just a passionate statement of belief)