Stop asking me to sign in and stop logging me out on deactivation!

i believe i've seen an adobe employee post (on another cc desktop ideas thread) that they are working on this.

It's just a shame that Adobe doesn't care about making using the user experience better.  They're just concentrating on fancy AI stuff, which is nice, but this is still just extremely irritating and unnecessary.  Still it's been over a year now and nothing has changed...

i saw it. and i'm human.

Most annoying thing ever.  Adobe has the worst customer service ive ever seen.  The continual login crap has to end, but no human will ever see this, so it doesnt even matter.  BTW, i had to login, and do the confirmation text code just to say this

i didn't realize it before, but this thread is the best that can be done.

Sorry, I also liked on the link to log a suggestion, but the creative cloud desktop app isn't listed.  The other link provided forwards me to this site where I see my post already listed.  Can you recommend an app that I could log this request under?

Thanks, I'll create an instance there too (I thought this was the place for feature request ideas, apologies.)  Yes I suspect I won't get traction there either, although it's really silly.

My rational for it being silly is this:  To "deactivate" I have to "sign out", however I can immedialy "sign in" again (without activating) on that computer, thus being "signed in" to three machines, but "activated" on two!

Hi,  I was using the VPN only for the purposes of "switching devices quickly" as you suggested.  I'll try swithing between the home pc and laptop seperatly, with both machines connected to the same physical network,  to see if VPN is the problem. 

However, I'm pretty sure that I don't have to be connected to the VPN from my home machine to experience the issues I've described.  

ok, after getting that vpn stuff in writing, i read the remainder of your message.

for adobe cc, sign-in = activate and sign-out = deactivate. i know you understand that and are suggesting adobe fix it so activation/deactivation are unlinked from sign-in/sign-out.  my guess is that's unlikely, and i'm pretty sure "unlikely" is an understatement.

ntl, i'm not the (or even an) arbiter of what adobe will or won't do.  you might get better traction with your suggestion here:

 for applicable apps, you can make (some) suggestions to adobe here, https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/x-productkb/global/how-to-user-voice.html

for others, use https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html

i know you have lots of info in that last post but i went no further than this:  "To perform the following experiment, I'm at home using a VPN to remote desktop to my work PC."

using a vpn is highly suspect - adobe cc doesn't do well with vpns.  it's secure servers appear to suspect spoofing or something else untoward and react unfavorably.  (and that previous sentence is intentionally nebulous because i don't really know what's going on except other users with vpn's report a variety of problems contacting adobe. in particular, they have difficulty using adobe chat and they have difficulty activating perpetually licensed adobe software.

so, at this point, if you're using a vpn to connect to adobe,  i'd suggest either testing whether using a vpn is the issue, or contacting adobe support and see if they're probing one of your computers might help.

there are 3 ways to contact adobe; chat, phone and twitter:

chat:
use a browser that allows popups and cookies
and click here, https://helpx.adobe.com/contact.html?rghtup=autoOpen
in the chat field (lower right), type AGENT
be patient, it can take quite a while to reach a human.

phone:
https://helpx.adobe.com/contact/phone.html

twitter:
tweet @AdobeCare

p.s. if you're contacted by anyone (via email or private message), it's much more likely to be a scammer than an adobe representative. ie, double check for an employee badge if contacted in the forums and look for an adobe.com domain in the email address if you click reply to an email. then check again and be very suspicious. any other method of contacting (or offering to contact you) is almost certainly a scam, https://community.adobe.com/t5/using-the-community-discussions/staying-safe-in-the-adobe-support-community/td-p/12919684/redirect_from_archived_page/true