Is Second Life going on a downward spiral?

I noticed its been having SOOO many problems lately, is it possible, that it may die by the end of next year?, I know they are getting more residents, but, how many are they losing each day?

Well you've only been in SL since June? Wait a little

No but the forums are.

These are the same problems I experienced in early 2006. The quality is about the same only with new features. Different things break causing the same amount of stability.

Next "is this the end of SL?" thread in 3.82 weeks and counting...

Wat the last poster said. You've been here since June. There *have* been worse times.

Mari

Second Life will continue to expand, and continue to be augmented. There will always be those that love it, those that hate it, those that hate to love it, those that love to love it, and those that love to hate it...

This doesn't change anything. It will grow.

In time, a competitor will come out (a quality one)--this will be beneficial for both parties, because we all know that competition breeds higher quality control and innovation.

If you go back and read the forum archives, it is clear that SL has been in a downward spiral since 2003

This is just a rough patch, nothing compared to the agonies we will suffer when 2.0 is eventually released. We do this to practice our whining and forum mobbing for the real deal.

Stop posting. It helps with our quality issues.

Oooo, I haven't listened to that album in a while...I should do that.

*sings*

"Won't give up
It wants me dead
God damn this noise
inside my head"

When i started almost a year ago, I recall not long after that we had these things called grid attacks, imagine thousands of prim genitalia and or furry heads falling from the sky. When people yelled the sky is falling then, it was literal.
Something lovingly refered to as "Goo" could take the grid down, and i mean DOWN, no half working can get in and do a few things, I mean DOWN, OFF, NADA, don't even bother trying to log in, for the better part of a week.
Not long after the grid attacks were fixed, LL made a frontpage press release to Yahoo and other places about itself, this, as intended brought a huge influx of people to SL that essentially broke things real bad like for a couple of weeks, and the subsequent lagg got worse and worse for as I remember at least a month and a half before it started to get better.
My point is, that period of problems was blamed (and rightly so) on LL's push toward a million accounts, which included the opening of free accounts. It was a hard time, the predictions about the end of SL were made, the calls for competitors to come forward were shouted, etc etc. This is not a whole lot differerent than that period (in fact performance and grid usability are better this time around at least). But the principal is the same, then everyone had to suffer because of LLs push to a million users, now the 300 pound gorilla in the room is voice.
Things will smooth out I suspect, my estimates are for about 2 more weeks of the problems, better at times and worse at others, we will likely be subjected to a trio of complete grid shutdowns of 4-6 hours, and at least one full day shutdown. After that it will be okay for a while, things will get better, SL will continue on, LL will go on a bug fixin' campaign to appease the masses. Windlight will come out with very few if any real problems, the red tide will calm.
After a period of relative happiness it will be time to throw something else at us. Thats how these things work, get moral up, make people generally happy becuase you know you are going to have to lean on them a bit in the near future. Go back and look at the blog, bugs were getting fixed, there were happy go lucky announcements, explinations of advanced features, very little if any talk of new shinies. It was easy to see the storm on the horizon.

Nah I would not say its going on a downward spiral. However, the customer service continues to faaaaaaaaaaaallllll imo.

Long... long ago... these lands were pure and fresh. No problem ever. The grid was always up. TPing was fast and one arrived always the place you wanted. Never did you find your shoes or hair in your behind. Sims never crashed. One never lost a single item from your inventory. Buying items from a vendor always went as one could expect. Life was good and enjoyable...

*reread the text she just wrote*
Ughh.... I am getting old. I am starting to suffer from senile dementia attacks....

Morwen.

Those were the days lol

What, no poll? but I like Pie.

As SL grows and becomes more visible both societies and SL will have to adapt to each other.

There is one way to measure the health of SL, the rate of change in SL. SL is constantly changing and when it stops changing then it will be truly dead.

In an Einsteinian sense up and down are subjective, you say downward spiral, someone else could say upward spiral; all depends on perspective. Is SL half full or half empty?

That's not what I recall at all . The worst grey-goo attack last year had SL closed for logins and scripts disabled grid-wide for a few hours, but that was the worst of it.

For the most part, on private sims, you didn't even know there was a grid attack going on except for the fact that you only had a 1 in 2 chance of getting a successful tp.

The grid attacks we were getting when I started crashed the grid completely and you had to wait for hours for it to return. We did have lots of forums to post on though and they were jammed with people complaing about everything. My favorite was the Land and Economic forum where people kept screaming the L$ was going to crash and the exchange rate would fall to L$1000/1. That never happened, the worse it ever got was L$338/1 but somebody did manage to buy some at L$17,000/1 or thereabouts.

Aaaah. Nostalgia isn't what it used to be....

I agree. SL has been going down hill since before i started and that was late 2004.

LOL That makes this topic just like "pie without the filling".

I joined in September last year and yep, the grid was down most days due to grid attacks at least for several hours a day. This is heaven compared to that lol.

Wish I could agree, but can`t