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Anonymous
April 6, 2009
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Slow Slow Slow Slow Slow.....

  • April 6, 2009
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Damn the jive a$$ hamster is slower than the old Webx hamster. I've been logged out of the forum while waiting to get in.

that is weird.

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    Since the page load times from here (UK) can vary between 3 seconds and 30 seconds, I fail to see the relevance of the server location.


    It seems to be more dependent on the time of day if anything.


    In any case, the slow speed and the logging out (3 times today so far) make this a totally pathetic effort at a user to user forum.


    It's hard to express the magnitude of the blunder Adobe has made, without resorting to bad language.

    ... and we said it wouldn't work!


    ... and we said it wouldn't work!

    And we got sworn at and were insulted for having the temerity to say it; and were told to give the new format a chance … but we couldn't have been more right:

    Adobe's pig-headed dive into Jive has destroyed their Forums irreparably.

    Just looking-in in the hope of seeing some trace of improvement … and promptly checking-out again ….

    30 replies

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Legend
    June 12, 2009

    Just a test for the #51 post issue.

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Legend
    June 12, 2009

    One more test

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    Bob_Peters
    Inspiring
    May 13, 2009

    The responsiveness today is horrible (horrible, by the way, is measured in units of multiple seconds).  Period.

    Phos_four_dots
    Phos_four_dots
    Inspiring
    May 13, 2009

    Yeah. yeah, I know...rehash, rehash, rehash.

    Some folks say that speed here isn't really too bad. Maybe they have faster hardware, more RAM, more free space on their drives, a better internet connection, yada, yada, yada.

    But something I've been noticing that just serves to compound my annoyance with the slowness of these forums.

    They cause OTHER sites to load slowly as well.

    Example:

    I have a thread open in this forum.

    I click on the "Go to inbox" choice in my Gmail Notifier menubar utility. I have that set to open a new tab in the background of my current window.

    I then immediately click on the "Discussions" breadcrumb link at the top of the Forum thread to return to this forum's thread index page.

    Then I switch over to the tab where Gmail is supposed to open and it's stalled, waiting for the Forum index to load.

    Once the forum gets to a certain point in the load sequence, the Gmail tab recommences its loading process.

    Going to my Gmail inbox usually only takes about 5 seconds.

    But if I'm simultaneously trying to load a forum page, it gets usurped and has to wait for the bad Jive scripting to do it's business.

    BAD, BAD, BAD!!!

    Kath-H
    Kath-H
    Inspiring
    May 13, 2009

    Replying via email. Does this show as updated'?

    ~graffiti
    ~graffiti
    Legend
    May 13, 2009

    It does for me yes.

    Claudio González
    Claudio González
    Legend
    May 7, 2009

    Loading times here are very variable today. I'm getting from 8 seconds to nearly two minutes... Far too long.

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    Bob_Peters
    Inspiring
    May 5, 2009

    Buko. wrote:

    Damn the jive a$$ hamster is slower than the old Webx hamster. I've been logged out of the forum while waiting to get in.

    that is weird.

    I think the hamster died. 

    OldBob1957
    OldBob1957
    Inspiring
    May 5, 2009

    YMMV But that's been my experience on these new 'improved' fora.

    When I can even get in here without the whole thing timing out on me.

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    Anonymous
    May 7, 2009

    there is a MINIMUM 5 second delay on any navigation action (ex. clicking on a thread title. clicking reply. hitting the back button. etc. etc. etc.)  in the forums. sometimes it's more like 10, esp. for page reloads.

    B
    Bob_Peters
    Inspiring
    May 5, 2009

    The responsiveness today is worse that ever.  It took me more that a minute(!) to get from selecting "Forum Comments" to the main page of this forum.

    A
    Anonymous
    May 5, 2009

    Not that anyone is the slightest bit interested, but it's about this time every day that the page loads here go to 30 seconds and more.


    B
    Bob_Peters
    Inspiring
    May 5, 2009

    Still getting terrible response today.

    Speedtest.com results:

    Denver

      upload:       19 to 20 mbps

      download:   4.6 to 4.7

    Colorado Springs

      upload:       8 to 10 mbps

      download:   4.3

    S_D_A_
    S_D_A_
    Inspiring
    May 5, 2009

    What's the relevance of this to Adobe Forums Bob ? This just shows us that you have a slow ISP connection to the backbone of the Internet.

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    Anonymous
    May 5, 2009

    S.D.A. wrote:

    What's the relevance of this to Adobe Forums Bob ? This just shows us that you have a slow ISP connection to the backbone of the Internet.

    well, I think most of us can see that if it's taking him 4 seconds to download other pages, why does it take 20-30seconds (5 to 7 times longer) for these pages to dl??  It's almost painful to sit here and wait for these pages to load.  If I didn't know better, I would swear I was on a 14.4K dial up modem. 

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    Bob_Peters
    Inspiring
    May 4, 2009

    It is really annoying to stare at the following message page after page after page!

    Contacting "forums.adobe.com"

    I am spending way too much time (several seconds and more) just waiting.

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    Bob_Peters
    Inspiring
    May 4, 2009

    Bob_Peters wrote:

    It is really annoying to stare at the following message page after page after page!

    Contacting "forums.adobe.com"

    I am spending way too much time (several seconds and more) just waiting.

    Consider the following numbers I just got by running Speedtest from 40 miles west of Chicago to San Jose:

    Download:  22.3 mb/sec

    Upload:      4.2 mb/sec

    And I am still seeing "Contacting forums.adobe.com" with almost all page/response changes.  What's wrong with this picture?

    Zeno Bokor
    Zeno Bokor
    Inspiring
    May 4, 2009
    Consider the following numbers I just got by running Speedtest from 40 miles west of Chicago to San Jose:

    the servers are located in Colorado, not in San Jose as per this post 28.

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    Bob_Peters
    Inspiring
    May 1, 2009

    I still find the responsiveness of the New and Improved forums to be about the same as the WebX forums.  Today I have to wait too much.

    While many won't care for the UI on dpreview ( http://forums.dpreview.com/forums/forum.asp?forum=1039 ) the site is rarely slow.  Try it and you'll see what I mean.  By comparison, this forum is a snail.

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    Anonymous
    May 1, 2009

    I can the imagine that the number of users on DP Review is infinitesimal compared with here.

    C
    Christopher Glaeser
    Participating Frequently
    May 1, 2009

    I can the imagine that the number of users on DP Review is

    infinitesimal compared with here.

    I don't know which is larger (I would have guessed dpreview), but it certainly isn't infinitesimal in comparison.

    Best,

    Christopher

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