Slow, slow, slow (III) !

What about before noon today? Or yesterday?

Yes, there was a slowdown today. And the system was restarted at about noon pacific time (about 25 minutes ago). Things will run slow for the first 30 to 45 minutes after a restart.

They don't care.

a few minutes I tried to get in and I waited 5 minutes on three different post on this list and stared at the screen and the message in the status bar waiting for adobeforums.com....

then I went on to read some email message and boom lightning fast.

The need to Fire WebCrossing and recommend no one ever ever do business with them again.

They would do better with LunarPages.

There are other sites & forums with massive traffic that NEVER show the page load time inconsistencies as the Adobeforums.com pages do.

Fast. Slow. Fast. Slow. Completely unavailable for 5, 10, 15 minutes, or longer.

The company is one of the biggest players on the planet, and this crappy inconsistency is OK with them?

Could somebody please make sense of that for me?

I'm a reasonably smart and perceptive guy. I've thought about it 47 ways inside and out. I've considered technology problems, management problems, infrastructure problems, world-wide networking problems.

I just can't suss it.

It makes NO friggin' sense.

AT ALL!!!

Other companies can figure out how to make it all work like lightning, why can't Adobe?

I place absolutely no blame on individual employees, because I think the world of a lot of them, and what they do, and how they do it. Millions of us couldn't do what we do if you didn't do what you do.

You guys whom I've talked to, and forumed with and exchanged email dialogue with know: I have the best intentions when I write something this intense. I really only get angry when the stuff I love is being harmed or attacked or is crumbling away before my very eyes. I aim the scope at the company.

They're fsckin' sh¡t up, and they don't even know it, or somehow decide it's not gonna kill the profits, so it doesn't matter so much. And I express that in light of, or despite the knowledge of their consistently climbing bottom line. Money is importantof coursebut it's hardly the only thing that matters. Adobe, as a company, has obviously done a lot of things right, for a lot of years. That history is not to be forgotten.

But, FLANG BLAMMIT!!! ya poor dumb bastard bloated corporation...I love ya, but you're making things mighty difficult.

Shift the balance a little.

Lighten up on the marketing, and heavy up on listening to your devoted, long time customers.
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Whoopsy-Daisy!!! ;) :)

My apologies for sailing off on a wide ranging rant where it doesn't really belong. When I realized what I did I thought maybe that I should've copy/pasted it to some faceless administrative employee at corporate HQ (and then deleted it from this thread), but it would have just fallen into a sucking black hole of corporate indifference. I expect the rest of you here who feel a similar vested concern will have good replies, and I look forward to reading them.

Your ol' Uncle Phos means well, but he gets carried away sometimes. As long as no kittens get stepped on, I'm pretty happy.

;)

Seems that way. Took close to that amount of time to get in here just now.

It ain't me...

From Broadbandreports.com:

Speed Test #49958232 by dslreports.com
Run: 2008-04-28 16:44:32 EST
Download: 20217 (Kbps)
Upload: 10227 (Kbps)
In kilobytes per second: 2467.9 down 1248.4 up
Tested by server: 55 java
User: 2 @ dslreports.com
User's DNS:xx.gov

Oh, so you took the express route then?

;)

Clicked on the link to come in here at 12:57 and got here at 1:03.

They like MS are big enough where image doesn't count. You can get away with acting like the 800 pound gorilla. If you need or want adobe products you put up with anything, and they can get away with it.

I would have thought that Adobe would have been concerned about their image.

Half a minute to load a page of text isn't exactly impressive!

My theory is that it's all part of a covert drivel-reduction experiment.

"Hahahahahaha!!!" he laughs maniacally. "It'll never work, AdobeMan!"