Official Adobe Audition Forums to be closed shortly - then reopened....

There is some evidence that the forum revamp was done to a timetable rather than to a state of readiness.

Does that sound familiar??

Bingo.  This is merely a brazen public display of incompetence.  Did anyone test this before going live?  Before I saw OzPeter's comment, "Done to a timetable," I had already thought of the rushed AA2 release.

Right now the Adobe forum says "Welcome, MusicConductor" at the top of every page but wants me to login/create an account to reply.  When I login, it takes me to the top forum home page.  I guess I'll try again tomorrow!

Right now the Adobe forum says "Welcome, MusicConductor" at the top of every page but wants me to login/create an account to reply.  When I login, it takes me to the top forum home page.  I guess I'll try again tomorrow!

It was behaving similarly for me earlier. For all I know, it still is. I might try it again tomorrow, but a) I have a pile of work to get on with, and b) I'm getting fed up with trying, so I might just wait until some other brave soul says that they've fixed it - and simply not bother until then.

It worked OK for me yesterday on my work machine, but not at home.  The fix for the home machine was to delete all my adobe.com cookies and start again with a new login to my best-behaved existing account (I have three of varying effectiveness, remember) - it behaved a lot better after that.

Paul

It looks like the Adobe forum is working ok now (October 6th, 10:00 am GMT+1). It remembers my login, speed is ok. Only the search function is not yet operational, and the posts quantity from before the make-over still seems to be lost.

... and the posts quantity from before the make-over still seems to be lost.

I think that speaks volumes about how effective this so-called 'make-over' really is. It looks like 'screw-over' would be a more appropriate term...

It looks like the Adobe forum is working ok now (October 6th, 10:00 am GMT+1). It remembers my login, speed is ok. Only the search function is not yet operational, and the posts quantity from before the make-over still seems to be lost.

Owhhh, just forget what I said. It was a temporary hickup, I guess. It's back to normal... I'll check again in a week or so.

Well, I tried it again. Doesn't seem to have changed much - still can't remain logged in for any length of time, and it is an almightly pain to set anything up because the controls you need are all over the place. You can't really call that a forum - it's really just a glorified message centre where if you are lucky, you might be able to collect the odd message. You couldn't really call that welcoming, could you?

Even more, it reminds me of why we set up AudioMasters in the first place.

As far as I'm concerned, recent Adobe progress in terms of forum development has been several steps backwards - possibly, judging by the present level of Audition-related posting, towards oblivion... and having no search facility at present makes it pretty much useless for a lot of people.

I expected an increase in posts here as a result of the Adobe forum collapse, but so far I didn't see that happen. Where did those users go? This is an opportunity to promote the AudioMasters forums as the alternative for the Adobe AA forums!

I expected an increase in posts here as a result of the Adobe forum collapse, but so far I didn't see that happen. Where did those users go?

There is a distinct difference between users and posters - that's why the search facility is so important. If Despised7 has a look at the usage stats at some stage, he may be able to paint a more accurate picture of what may have happened over the last couple of weeks.

I can tell you that our traffic has had a huge increase since the beginning of the year.  In January we were getting 1.2gb of traffic.  For this month we've already beat that in the first 7 days.  Currently we're serving anywhere between 13-15+ gb of traffic a month.

Last month we had more unique visits than any other month this year, and well over one million hits.  This data is hard to analyze because of the search engine bots that have been indexing us, especially Microsoft's live.com.  The crawlers currently account for around 1gb of data transfer/month.  Last month around the time of the Adobe Forums upgrade there was a slight jump in traffic, followed by a slight drop, and currently it's jumping back up.

The most popular pages are the AM index (duh!), and then the Syntrillium Archives search.

This is really weird on the new adobe forum. I signed in and it got my details however it has my name at the top but I can't reply. Well, that's alright, I'm sure it'll get fixed sometime but this is the best bit. It logged me in as Aim Day Co. So what you say what's the big deal, that's your screen name anyway. It is but only on 3 forums. This, Propellerheads and Creative Cow. I've never registered with Aim Day Co in any of Adobe's forums, it always been "Mark Allen" since I first registered over 5 years ago on the Photoshop forums.

How did they get the screen name? Is "Big Brother" at it again? Sinister Indeed, they know who we are.

Mark Day Co (...just for badness)

Yes, it appears that someone is trying to help out the regulars.  My Adobe account was under my real name, and forums under my screen name, and someone helpfully merged the two.  Too bad it doesn't help the more significant problems -- this morning page loads there have taken up to minutes, but now that I'm signed in, recent posts won't display at all (unavailable).

Some semblence of sense has finally prevailed.... this is today's latest:

It is time to roll back. This is a tough decision. We're going to lose messages posted in the past week or so. But at this point we need something that works for you. We need NNTP. We need Search. We are planning to shut this down today and restore the backup taken just before the rollout of the new look and feel started. Thanks! John Cornicello

... and roll back it has. Hopefully they'll either leave it alone now, or buy in some proper forum software - preferrably of a type that doesn't defy all sense of logic.

Pity.  Looks like SteveG in his motherly guise as "AudioMa" will no longer be seen!