Closed for Maintenance or time for a major protest?

i guess i dont mind sl being down but only if they fix the attachment problem im having for about two weeks now. i cant wear most of my outfits because my attachments wont work. ive tried everything i can think of. clearing cache and reboots. moving to less laggy regions. ive tried reattaching objects to different body parts. its as if sl doesnt even recognize that my attachments exist anymore.

I heard there was an earthquake and nine out of ten gerbils died.

Ok you guys in America, do these sub-contract people of Lindens in these sorts of industries work 24/7?
Lindens I see work all hours and days to fix problems they can control and tell us progress, so what happens at this sub-contract firm, are we stuck untill they come into work 9am Monday?

Friday night, hmm would say that's paticullarly problematic, except that we have had nothing but problems for near a month. A year ago, we were alerted to being hacked, but the asset servers that had our financial records were secure though we had to change our passwords. For those who been around awhile, griefers trying to bring down SL were widely known and I have no reason to believe they just quit. So yeah, could be the down-grade oops up-grade, or could we be hacked?

Now the asset servers are on the fritz on a semi-consistent rate. I feel as a community we need to respond to the constant interuptions, a Boston tea party of sorts. We get no refunds, nothing for our troubles but the continued message all clear, fixed, sign the new TOS, and pay your dues or leave.

As a content provider this is a slap in the face. We have much invested in sl and the take it or leave it is not acceptable IMO. I won't pretend to know what the problem is but sure feels like we are lab rats and someone or group wants to see how we re-act.

Maybe if thousands of AR are submitted on the Lindens themselves might be one way to send a message to get their act together (it sure feels like abuse to me). I am sure there are other idea's to send a message either way to acquiesce by doing nothing is weak and guarantee's being treated as such, IMO.

If, as it appears, the problem is external to Second Life, then surely we can't blame Linden Lab totally for the problem?

If someone from the water company is outside digging a hole in the road with a JCB that swings round and pulls down your telephone cable, you don't blame the telephone company for your loss of service, do you? You blame the idiot in the JCB for doing it, and whilst perhaps the fact that nobody can get round to replace your cable until tomorrow, frustrating as it may be, isn't necessarily their fault either.

If only! A power cut that took down the whole town affected us at work once, people were calling the helpdesk and complaining their computer wouldn't power on, we'd point out that the whole town was down, the lights in their office wouldn't power on either and then they'd ask us what we were doing to fix it.

I think that's part of the problem - we have two distinct user communities in SL.

The first are the content creators who build stuff to sell, so any 'downtime' is potentially money lost, or development time lost. When you factor real money (and remember some people make hundreds, thousands of dollars a month out of this place) then yes, it's frustrating. For those whose sole income is based on SL, even more so.

The second are the users, who come here to socialise and have fun. For them, downtime is frustrating, but they aren't losing anything really because there are other ways to communicate with your real friends - messengers, skype etc - if they are really that good a friend. Failing that, fire up the xbox or wii or whatever and play some other game, or go down the bar or watch tv or whatever.

What always makes me chuckle is some of the loudest complainers when there's downtime are those who contribute little to nothing (except perhaps a bit of lag) to the overall SL experience, and many are on free basic accounts paying nothing ... so why complain about not having access to something you don't pay for in the first place?

Oh, and it's been about 2 hours now since the shutdown message... "we'll keep you posted" clearly means something different at LL than it does in the rest of the world. An update would be nice even if it's just "we're still working on it", to know that Teeple hasn't just fallen asleep at the keyboard and forgotten to hit the "Enable Logins" button on the BMTRE console.

I don't think there is any Big Linden pulling strings, or making decisions. And I don't think there is any management, good or bad. And I think that's the source of most of the problems right there.

coco

i tryed to bring this up at the H4 office hours, but there only held in a non linden owned mature private sim. realy dont like the idea of trying to to debuggung buisness in a porn sim. so gave up.

As a content provider this is a slap in the face. We have much invested in sl and the take it or leave it is not acceptable IMO. I won't pretend to know what the problem is but sure feels like we are lab rats and someone or group wants to see how we re-act.

Maybe if thousands of AR are submitted on the Lindens themselves might be one way to send a message to get their act together (it sure feels like abuse to me). I am sure there are other idea's to send a message either way to acquiesce by doing nothing is weak and guarantee's being treated as such, IMO.

kk,
there could be problems existing outside sl thats not ther fault true but asset servers problems as mentioned have been going on quite a whle not because of a storm .

There is a beta test grid. Ostensibly to test for new upgrades with volunteers to elicit and discover issues before the main grid is subjected to the updates.

24/7 not realistic no-one has suggested different.

for two near 2 years Wednesday morning were slated for updates to the grid.

AR too harsh, maybe so, which is why I sugested there may be a better idea, possibly wearing a mask

rudy2zday my partner believes my recent interest in the (RA) forums is getting me edgy and shes right.

I came into sl because I love to build, to create and its why I have stayed. I spent most my first year attending classes in sl learning to do what I do and the only time for the forums were spent in the script, animation,building forums if at all.

There are enough that would answer questions so I need not continue to come hare as often and will go back to what I love to do inworld. My sincerest apologies to those that find my frustration sharp, it is but I will not trouble the forums with my diss-satifaction (much, lol) and hopefully I can vent by making some new products lol.

These people are working on a weekend so i can have fun. I like that work ethic, I want to encourage it.

I don't think there is any Big Linden pulling strings......

coco

I'm watching the golf channel right now... this is what has become of my weekend.