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Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by schrijver »

vetrom wrote: post #63

It really is the moments like this when I look at my stack of Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus, and Darktable, and am glad that I invested in the alternate solution.

Not sure why you’re getting downvoted for this: I’d say you’re allowed your little moment of schadenfreude after having invested all these time in tools many designers won’t yet take seriously!

The real catch though, is that design work is almost always done in collaboration—so that it’s not just enough to switch yourself, you need to find other people to work with who use similar tools.

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by Grue3 »

ISL wrote: post #16

Does anyone have access to GIMP download statistics for the past ~10 days? Edit: Answering my own question... Not the main repository, but it's something. http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-win/files/GIMP%20%2B%20...

Sourceforge hasn't been recommended way for GIMP downloads for months. It is no longer linked from the official page.

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by ScottWhigham »

l0stb0y wrote: post #57
aeberbach wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This hand-wave over designer's inability to build enough slack to deal with Adobe's failure into every project is a combination of unsubtle trolling and egregious sociopathy.

It's called 'planning for the unexpected' and encompasses a wide range of scenarios, only one of which can be blamed on Adobe.

Well, to play devil's advocate, 'planning for the unexpected' should also cover 'a client calls at the last minute with a rush job', shouldn't it? In that case, how is an Adobe outage the consultant's fault?

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by blueskin_ »

e12e wrote: post #72
DenisM wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We've learned to live with centralized water and electricity and banking, all outside of our control, rather than rely on on-premises solutions. SaaS, too, will win out after a few hiccups.

I don't know about you, but I happen to live in a place were those things are still mostly under government control, and we very, very rarely see blackouts of the kind that have hit eg parts of the US from time to time. And I don't need banking 24/7 to do my job. I don't need water 24/7 to live, especially if an outage is made public in advance. I am (too) dependent on electricity -- but there are alternatives if I n…

I happen to live in a place where utilities are deregulated and people can choose from any number of competitors for their supplier, and US-style blackouts are literally completely unheard of.

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by mschuster91 »

rangibaby wrote: post #102
asdfaoeu wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> risk of having installed some possible malware Are you talking about the Creative Cloud drm or the crack?

You don't need a crack for CC, just to block Adobe's activation servers in your hosts after installing. (AFAIK)

Not anymore, this was valid up to CS5. CS5.5 and later need the amtlib.dll patch on Windows, dunno what's the state of affairs on Macintosh.

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by twic »

vacri wrote: post #40
rtpg wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't have the data to back it up, but (for example) data loss as a whole have probably considerably gone down with transitions to SaaS. Sure you can self-host, but who do you trust more: some guy on your team who has other things to do, or a team that does only that ? And a team whose livelyhood depends on uptime/data protection. Here people can't work, but imagine the amount of work if there was a data failure on…

The other thing is that this outage is affecting whole departments. If you lose your laptop, that's one person out. If the SaaS goes down, all users lose out. In a department heavy with photoshop users, it brings that department to a halt.

Actually, the situation isn't that bad: the outage hasn't affected whole departments, it's affected a whole industry. Which means that your competitors' design departments are just as screwed as yours, so you have nothing to worry about.

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by zimpenfish »

DanHulton wrote: post #54
derengel wrote: post #52

I just bought acorn and idraw but everyone here is recommending pixelmator and sketch :(

FWIW, I moved from Pixelmator to Acorn and prefer Acorn immensely. Don't feel so bad.

For what little I do that doesn't require spinning up Photoshop on the Windows beast, I use Acorn on the MBPr. It just feels nicer than Pixelmator to me.

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

nnq wrote: post #37

My recipe for dealing with "cranky" proprietary software like this: Step 1. Buy CC subscription and install what you need. Step 2. Look for a good patch/crack that makes everything work ofline, and that still allows you to update. Step 3. Make peace with the risk of having installed some possible malware on your machine with the patch/crack (ie. do the sensible thing of doing you shopping and ebanking on the other de…

The DRM on a game creation IDE I use stopped working not too long ago. I'd bought the product, but the DRM didn't care. So I just used a crack.

Re: Creative Cloud outage leaves Adobe users unable to work

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Post by hyperpape »

skrebbel wrote: post #80
e12e wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know about you, but I happen to live in a place were those things are still mostly under government control, and we very, very rarely see blackouts of the kind that have hit eg parts of the US from time to time. And I don't need banking 24/7 to do my job. I don't need water 24/7 to live, especially if an outage is made public in advance. I am (too) dependent on electricity -- but there are alternatives if I n…

> I don't know about you, but I happen to live in a place were those things are still mostly under government control, and we very, very rarely see blackouts of the kind that have hit eg parts of the US from time to time. That's just propaganda. I'm sure there's places where water and electricity are under government control and it still sucks, and i bet there's places where they aren't and everything works great. It…

And "I'm sure..." weakens your argument. Do you get the irony of saying the parent post is relying on propaganda while tacitly admitting you don't know whether what you're asserting is true?

Utilities and telcos are a weird industry, with issues of natural monopolies and last-mile issues. I don't know what the right way to handle them is, but the case against government intervention is much weaker.

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