First off, I’m proud to announce three new features on secondlife.com
First off, we launched the Second Life Classifieds on the web. You can now browse all the in-world classifieds from your web browser and go to the location of the advertisement via a handy slurl. http://secondlife.com/community/classifieds.php
We have also re-launched PayPal as a form of registration. Had friends waiting to join second life, but they had neither a SMS enabled phone or credit card? You can now use PayPal to register for Second Life.
Lastly, ever try to search secondlife.com for a specific topic? Now you can! Look for the search secondlife.com via Google search in the upper right corner of every secondlife.com page.
And now for the Apology: While pulling some metrics this afternoon on these three new features I ran some queries on our central database which slowed it down. This had the un-intended consequence of causing the disruptions felt in world, slow logins and slow forums around 5:00 PM PDT today. I'm very sorry folks.
Chris