Arhg.

So, For a while now i'll log on to sl and it's soooooo slow! Last year it use to be A LOT faster, so i'm wondering why is it so slow now;?
Because of the laggyness and slowness of sl i hardly never go on anymore...
I Miss the old sl. =[







*Why are all the fun forums locked!*

latelly sl has been under atack several times, also there are a couple of bugs and other kinds of problems lurking around which probably play a part in slowing sl as well.

as for the reason the forums were locked, bascicly they got toospammy and crowded with trolls, to a level that moderating them was taking time the lindens would be uising to try to improve sl, for more details I am sure someone can give you the url to the blog entry explaining everything (well, not everything, but they try to explain stuff)

As Tigro said, the grid has been under attack a lot recently. Plus, you might want to turn off a lot of the new shinies to get better performance. I turn off both the avatar vertex thingy and the water ripple. Sped me up nicely, as did dropping some of the particle count.

On the forums, they become demotivating and thus had to go. They consisted of mostly flames and trolls, making it hard for LL to moderate and still have time to fix things as well as depressing the heck out of the staff when they looked at them. Philip's word was "demotivating" in the townhall. I think there were better ways of handling it, but they decided to close them.

I think the slowness of SL also has something to do with an average of 10k users online at any given time now vs. 2k average online a year ago...