Thank you Lindens and Linden Labs for Your Hard Work!

Well, I appreciate the open-regestration. I mean, it will cause problems, but it will (hopefully) also allow in people like me, with no credit card (self-imposed) and not using paypal (paypalsucks.com has a good set of reasons not to.), but who just want to hang out and have some fun.

And before people mention the cell phone option, I never really saw the point of those (unless you drive in the country a lot, in which case they can be handy. I tend to stay in the area, though, so that isn't relevent to me)

I think SL rocks!

The options to this type of environment are few to non-existent.
The existence of the micro economy, and the ability to meet and exchange ideas
with other creators and graphic artists. Then immediately demonstrate that
art while communicating about it is to me incredibly novel and exciting.

Someone said something about computer performance. Upgrade your computer.
It is getting increasingly easy to do and many shops will help you. Yes it costs
money. But the experience is far enhanced, those with lesser machines
experience more lag and delay than those with more powerful tech.

Traditionally if I did not care for a place or a job I was in, I voted with my
feet. Now of course I vote by tapping keys.

I tend to see the glass as half full. And yes I realize that may be naive
and less fashionable. However I simply prefer to smell the roses then try
to learn how to make newer and better ones.

Which reminds me, this environment is run by its occupants more so than
any other that I have seen or heard of. The other thrilling things is the pace of new technology and the Future.

So yes keep up the great work LL. And in addition Great Work to all those
Rezidents who have done so much for SL.

Its unfortunate that people happy with a product so rarely tell the vendor. SL is an amazing place and the work the Lindens have put into it is appreciated by a lot of us.

F1 is super. I'm a bit concerned that not enough people know about this new niftyness though.

Should thank the people who's work you profited off, although it was kind of LL not to ban you.

I wasn't going to respond to this thread but I think LL deserves credit so I'm compelled to give them my support.

Is there a lot of incomplete work to be done by LL? Yes.

But overall, to date, LL has done an outstanding job.

They are hard at work, and the proof is in the nearly weekly updates we've been receiving lately.

If you're looking for work they have done recently, then do your own search and look no further than here...

http://history.secondserver.net/index.php/Release_Notes

As far as ...



... well, this is all subjective, isn't it?

The fact being that they have made several decisions in the past 30 days, and many more in the months preceding the last 30 days. It's inevitable that some of our residents may not have liked some of the recent decisions made by LL, but many more do and approve of them!

I, for one, agree with the large majority of decisions made by LL. For my own selfish reasons, I may not necessarily like a particular decision made by LL (such as the recent open registration procedure, LL's announcement that under certain circumstances they would be selling linden, and the recent unnanounced LOD change) but I understand their underlying motive behind these decisions, and accept that it isn't all about me.

More importantly though, is LL's interaction with the community, and their willingness to change things, or forego the implementation of things, based on feed back from the community.

They do listen to us.

It's impossible to expect that LL can satisfy the diverse interest of the thousands of residents that inhabit SL. But no one can deny that they are working hard for us and putting forth a great effort.

And for that alone we should be greatful.

Well, I think Second Life is fabulous, and I do appreciate the work which has gone into creating such a vast and customizable world. If you compare Second Life to most other massive, online communities..... Second Life wins out in a heart beat. Sure, it's not perfect, and mistakes and seemingly bad decisions will be made. That's the nature of big business, and sometimes (more often than not) what appears to the company's customer base to be a horrid decision will turn around to be not so bad after all.

What decisions now seem like "Doomsday" or the "Death of Second Life" won't be, and I imagine the same people who cried "death" about the last month will be crying death several months from now, and again a couple years from now for an entirely different reason.

Sure, things have occasionally been shaky with the updates, but no programmer (not even a team of them) can magically snap their fingers and fix everything. Anyone who has done any amount of client<->server programming will realize how difficult it can be to update software and find every possible bug until after the updates have been distrubuted and widely tested by everyone, especially in something as large as Second Life. Be realistic, it takes time, and a lot of it. I can guarantee you, if you were in their shoes you would be feeling pretty sore by now reading these forums.

So, I say good job, Linden Labs, I look forward to the updates which I know you guys are working hard on. Thank you for my Second Life.

You have to be joking

Are you sure a lot of posts in here are not Lnden Alts
SL has been broken since the hugely failed 1.7 It still isn't fixed now in 1.10
A lot of the problems occuring now are identical to the old 1.7

Party, birthday celebrations, Yeah right, I won't be there. More resources for that I suppose and still nothing being done about the considerable amount of problems were suffering now.

Another 5 hour downtime today to fix a problem to fix the problem that was caused by the last update that had a problem that tried to fix the problems that update had previously

I give up

Man, so much bitterness.

Maybe one of the good things about the recent 'issues' is that maybe it'll finally disappoint off some of the more extremely negative folks enough into finally leaving.

SecondLife has *NEVER* been perfect. It has had bugs that drove me nuts (still does in some cases)... but it still has many aspects that I enjoy and will return to for some time to come.

It's frontier life folks, things will be rough from time to time. If you don't like it... go some place boring and "safe".

*wakes up, gets a cup of coffee, and attempts to login, with a grumble*
Damn update! Damn this, Damn that!

oh wait... update... this might fix the inventory they broke in the last update.. nowi can clean my inventory of 24,000 items out. o.o