second life its the pits

hey folks ive ben on sl for over 4 years one thing i dont understand is this ok

why dont the lindons bother listernng to our views and comments i mean everynight i log on or try to login thers over70,00 ppl online thats good ok but not when sl is still running old servers that justv cant keep up with the demand, ok it ni on inpossible to log on from the uk
now when 70000 ppl are online ok we get the same old excuse logins are disabled or some othercorny excus come on guys you make enough money to invest in soe new servers dont yoi its all very well to keep upgrading my computer to keep up with your vieweers but god sake thers only so much i can do . my point is second life always crashes we now this ok
this is down to bad programing .on your part but for gods sake let us at least login first please and im fed up with tyring to logon forover 1 hour or more

biffo27 steele

Simple answer to that really. They're more interested in sweetheart deals, courting big business, not-for-profits and academia than they are fixing the nuts and bolts of what makes the place run.

They're not listening. They're only giving the appearance of listening. Ironically, it would have cost them half as much to actually listen as it has to produce this idiotic charade.

I refuse to give the Lindens RL money, and have had this attitude for about 6mths. The constant decline in performance is worrying, why the hell would I be stupid enough to pay for such poor service.

It appears to me that they are totaly ignoring people who embrace the 3d nature of SL. They are happy to let idiots hang around for hours on end with bandwidth sucking av-render costs, doing nothing but chatting about crap, while people actually using the 3d facilities are treated with contempt.

Why am i restricted to 32 prims for physical objects, prim size restricted, link distance restricted, waiting 20mins to load my inventory, yet morons can lag an entire sim just because they want us to spend 30mins waiting for their 50K av-render cost to stop hogging the bandwidth. Vain idiots like this shouldn't be here, they contribute nothing significant. Send them back to myface, spacebook and bobo and let us have second life exist for 3d environment fans.

That's all very nice except for one thing:

Second Life is kind of on the very bottom of the drama/geek heap. It's inferior to both myspace and facebook in every sense, pretty much everyone (except second lifers) think it's pretty hilarious.

Who is to say that they are not doing their best. Really if you don't work in this business then I would not suggest complaining so randomly. People are so quick to blame the Lindens. Especially in these forums.

Now I am not saying that they are flawless here. But the fact that they are running a company that had no precident, really should allow for some allowances here. They have never been anything but amazing to me. Maybe you just need to own more land. I know that sounds a bit pompous to some, but when you have concierge rights, it is such a different scenerio.

I have had numerous problems with my sims in the past, and they have never given me anything but prompt service, and never have backed out until they rectified whatever problem was happening.

People are so quick to blame here, even before they have any indication of anything. One example would be the merger of SLX. People have been complaining like the sky is falling since. And this has not even happened yet.

I've worked in the business for 20 years. I know exactly what I'm talking about.

And of course they're doing their best sweetie... they're simply incompetent. And when I say "they", I don't mean the poor souls who are actually doing the work, I mean the pinheads that are doing the planning and budgeting. Thats right new CEO dude, I'm talking to you. Website looks great and stuff (well.. at least the front page. Well done!), but it seems to me that you're more or less doing exactly what the first one did, which is really not too much.

Still, it's nothing other than hilarious at this point. It's like watching six overpaid baboons trying to figure out how to get a grand piano to go 300mph across open water, thinking that maybe if they hit it with sticks some more it'll somehow magically work.

Myspace and Facebook?

Inferior to Myspace and Facebook?

If you're looking to use Second Life to do anything you can actually do in Myspace and Facebook, I dare say you're right. But that's like trying to use a water heater as a TV stand, or a ladder as a coffee table, or a blowtorch as a toaster oven. You could do it, but hardly anyone ever does outside Mythbusters and Junkyard Wars.

Second Life is not Myspace. Second Life is not Google. Second Life is not Amazon. Second Life is not a consumer electronics show, a library, a prime time commercial slot, a bikini wax, or a glossy magazine. Second life is a flaming sword that burns ALL THE WAY TO THE POMMEL. Second life is a quantum superposition. Second life is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly, it flips over, pinning you beneath. At night, the ice weasels come.

But, you're right, as a place to sell music or blog about your shopping trips, it's completely inferior to Myspace. SO BLOODY WHAT?

LMAOOOOOO...my stomach hurts now!

Thank you for my Daily Dose of Teh Giggles.

Now I'm afraid of the ice weasels....

I agree!!! that was a classic that needs to be framed and hung in the Linden Labs Office waiting area!!!

The following description was my "avatar" in another virtual world:

A spray of ice, a faint dusting of snowflakes, a cloud of chill mist, and within it a sleek, alert form... pale as a ghost, shimmering, crystal, a blue-white weaselly shape with little black eyes dark as the night sky beyond the death of the universe. Argent smiles at you, teeth like tiny crystal daggers, tongue like a pale flame. What's an ice weasel doing out in a hot place like this?

Sounds like SL in a years time...in 2 years we will be typing "go north", "look rock", "pickup key", "eat egg" etc...devolution, thats what it is!

are we not men?

Ephraim Kappler chokes, nasal sprays the keyboard with a half-chewed mulch of coffee and doughnut, falls off his chair laughing.

As long as we keep logging in things will stay the same