Beta Site

Hi,

Does anyone know when the bate site will be running. I've not been able to access it in weeks. Just tells me that it's down for amintanance and employees only.

It's way to expensive to keep uploading textures just to see how they look on the main grid. This is really slowing down my business plans.

Some have said the beta grid won't return. One poster earlier this week said it would be back last Thursday barring technical problems. If we keep creating rumors, one of them is bound to be correct.

All we have from LL is a blog post from a week ago telling us that the beta grid would be unavailable during a scheduled 6-hour maintenance period, after which the blog update said "All affected hardware is back in service." That statement was inaccurate. The beta grid was unavailable before, during, and after the scheduled maintenance. The lack of communication from LL is mind-boggling.

I'd love to know why they are being so secretive. Surely it's better to comunicate with us superfluous paying users

I vote for getting it back asap. I've spent a fortune lately testing textures on the regular grid.

Has someone posted a JIRA entry? This is crap...

No this is Linden Labs hehe ....hhmm which is kinda close to it lol

As long as we're ruminating rumors: If I were gonna test a new WindLight release, I think I'd want a beta grid to do it on first. Maybe even moreso for Havoc 4. Perhaps that's where it is now, and how it'll look or work when it returns.

I just posted one. SVC-695

Comment and vote if you'd like.

I just posted this in another thread:

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On SLDEV, a Linden said a few days ago: "We were planning to re-open it on Friday, but hit a snag with the deployed code.". They probably could not get it back online before the weekend. They also said that the beta grid will not be closed, now the HET grid is deployed, because:

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We still need it for testing at least two classes of testing:

* Central service changes that Het Grid won't help with (it's hard for a
singleton to be heterogeneous). And of course, yes, there are longer
term architectural plans to eliminate that sort of broad dependency on a
single unit. A lot of the grid-of-the-future work that Zero Linden talks
about as his office hours lead in this direction.
* Testing things that aren't even ready for Het Grid yet, either because
they're still in internal testing (the betagrid is our biggest test
grid, so we use that when things are getting "close" to ready) or
because we're worried about behavior on the main grid and need some
eyeballs before it gets there. (A permission exploit on even a single
region on the main grid would be a bad thing.)
</quote>