Time to start doing updates at night???

Dear Lindens,

First let me say that i absolutely love SL. I spend a lot of time here, and appreciate all the hard work you put into creating, maintaining and improving our world.

I'm very happy to see the rapid growth of our world population. Many new people continue to join SL. And i find that 90% of the people here are great, interesting and fun to be with.

My question is:


Don't you think it's time to start doing updates at night? As in early morning...


If you do updates in the wee hours, then 25 people are inconvenienced.

If updates continue to be done in the middle of the day, then 150,000 people are inconvenienced. Think about it...

Cheers,
Glenn

/rant

"OMG I AM BRITISH WHY DO IT AT OUR PEAK TIME"

/end rant

Someone had to! I wanted to be first!

WHO's night?

It's always night somewhere. Let's do it during Australia's night!

Night schmight. Keep doing it while I'm at work.

Perhaps time spent in the real world would introduce the concept of time zones. Day to one is night to another.

Let me join you in that.

TSO maintenance is at 3-4am PST ... lunchtime in the UK. That annoys me too, although I can't blame LL for that one..

Many US players don't think they deserve to have their gameplay time disrupted yet don't give a thought to the rest of the world who would be.

I'd rather there was downtime every day - even if only for 15 minutes... that would screw the campers.

Lewis

They are doing it early in the morning, Pacific Coast USA Time. This is an international community (though I believe the majority of the users are in the USA). It would be very difficult to find a time that anyone could agree would be 'better'. Any time of day or night will still inconvenience someone.

Personally, I like being on early in the morning for a while, before I start work. It's a fairly quiet time to catch up on messages and get work done. For me, the Wednesday morning update means this one day per week I can't do that bit of access. But I'd much rather lose part of that time, than lose part of my evening, when a lot more of my friends are on to interact with!

I do think that every week is a bit much, especially when you have to DL the entire client to do it. I'd rather see monthly updates, myself.

If we had a million residents and the world was 10 times larger, would it still be operationally feasible to close SL for updates as happens now, or would some kind of rolling update need to be introduced I wonder. The way updates happen now doesn't seem very scaleable to me.

Majority Rules.
Americans are typically WORKING at this time.
Sorry, no SL for you.
Spend this time doing something 'productive'.

I'm gussing that was just a typical morning brain fart.
Cause the world is round and all.
Heh I've posted a few myself

lol what was i thinking...?

no more early morning (my time) posts for me...

thanks for your good-natured replies...

The Lindens mostly come out at night. Mostly.

Game over man, Game over

Yes, it's a global community
True, they could choose the time where there are the least people.
But what I think factors into their decision the most, is that they don't want to be updating at 1 in the morning. They start round 8, which really isn't that early, and hope to finish during their work day. They are at their most refreshed at that time, having hopefully gotten a good night's sleep, are more likely to catch problems, and most importantly will work at their fastest pace.

If they started in the middle of the night, after having been at work all day, it would probably take them twice as much time. How would you feel if your boss told you you had to come in at 1 or some other inconvienient time, cause he wanted someone else to use your desk.

I know I'd be pissed, and I don't even work.

On the other hand, I was hoping to do some rl homework in-world...

I'm beginning to agree with the "24 down time," due to all these jerkoffs saying SL is "catered to them and not to you."

Wouldn't bother me a bit...get some RL errands down, clean all those dishes and pizza boxes stacked up everywhere....Heaven forbit some of you get your asses out of the chair and go shower.

How do you know he would'nt be doing productive stuff in SL?

But even if he wouldn't, do you think it's fair to blame him for not being productive on his leisure time (rather, being relaxed, enjoying SL), after coming home from work, etc?

Honestly, I couldnt give a flying fuck when SL is updated, as long as it is, and im one of those getting this supposed "short end of the stick"

I was a sysadmin for a local web content and service provider company a few years ago.

We did upgrades from/around midnight, as not to annoy people. But I have to admit, those upgrades went fast(er), it didn't take longer than an hour or two.

I would've rather slept, of course, but hey, that's the way the sysadmin's life goes

*gasp* Trep Cosmo posting in the general forums! OMG! The world is ending!

Ahem, yesm it's me. I just wanted to say one thing and hope it gets heard by LL:

Stop with the manual download of patches! Give us a proper auto-updater. Please. Pretty please. With sugar on top.

i seriously think it is, trep is posting on the general forums and Linden Labs caught a nasty bug before release

jeez whats next oh nevermind it just started raining frogs

Good point Moopf. SL will need to think about introducing a way to update the servers, back-end, and clients dynamically. This could include shutting down parts of SL temporarily rather than the whole entire system. It's definately needed for SL to keep expanding.

It's certainly not an easy problem to solve either, as you have to have resilience in the system to allow regions on different version to still co-exist happily and allow avatars to transfer between them. But, I guess, it is something that needs to be thought about for the future, especially if they ever package the software and allow us to create our own independant, or connected, grids.