Second Life residents? are currently experiencing a lot of problems in world. Inventory losses, borked friends lists, broken search,? failing teleports, failing group notices & group chats, grid stability in general to name but a few. Christian Diaz has written an open letter to Linden Lab which in the meantime has been signed by thousands of residents already, requesting adequate solutions for the current problems, some of which have been an issue for over a year now. Read the original letter here: http://www.projectopenletter.com/? and if you agree with its content and share the concerns of many, sign the letter.
Open Letter To Linden Labs
as written by Cristiano Diaz and Signed by thousands
In the past eighteen months, Second Life has expanded, growing from a small community of early adopters to a platform supporting millions of users. Linden Lab has created a world that inspires a deep level of passion in its users and provides unprecedented opportunities to share creatively, socially, and financially. With explosive levels of growth often come unexpected problems. In keeping with your company’s policy and rich history of resident involvement, we the undersigned would like to take this opportunity to address some concerns that we feel have gone unanswered for too long. There are some consistent, ongoing problems that are getting worse under heavy load, not better, and are not simply irritants but problems that are causing financial loss in some cases, which is unacceptable. Here is a brief list of the main concerns:
Inventory loss
this is a devastating problem that is worsening. We have no ability to protect our own inventories through backups, and are trusting you to protect that data. This is the highest priority. Sensible inventory limits (on non-verified accounts only), combined with better management tools and ways to protect our inventory ourselves would help to mitigate the problem as well. Regardless, this cannot continue - we will not accept financial loss as a feature of Second Life. It is your responsibility as service provider to ensure our data is not lost, and you are failing us.
Problems with Find and Friends List
we continue to see search outages on a far too regular basis. It is bad enough trying to get anywhere without being able to use search, but many users are also paying money for classified ads. Our friends lists just do not work reliably any longer, after years without an issue with them. If America Online/MSN/Yahoo can provide presence information for hundreds of millions of users, surely there is a way to make our friends lists work again.
Grid stability and performance
teleports fail quite regularly, especially under heavy load. Attachments end up in places they did not start out in, and sim performance varies wildly. None of this makes for a very pleasant experience for users. Long promised improvement to physics and scripting would help dramatically to reduce these problems, but there are a lot of other scalability issues as well. It often feels like the grid is coming apart at the seams. The promised use of limiting logins of non-verified accounts during peak load has been severely lacking. This would be an effective interim solution to load issues, but Linden Lab seems unwilling to use it.
Build tool problems
the importance of build tools that actually work as promised cannot be overstated enough - we rely on them to create content. Prim drift, disappearing prims, imprecise placement, problems with linking and other issues with the tools need to be addressed. Too much time is being spent trying to work around the problems.
Transaction problems
inventory deliveries are failing with an alarming (and annoying) frequency, leaving merchants with the burden of replacing missing content and having to try to confim the transaction in the first place. We trust that our L$ balances are accurate, but given recent problems, that is a cause for concern as well, and one we place our full trust in you to ensure its accuracy.
We remain fully supportive of Second Life and are more than willing to continue doing our part to help, but our confidence is steadily being eroded due to a general lack of communication and the apparent failure to successfully address the many issues detailed above. What we are asking for is that these problems are addressed immediately, ahead of new features, and that we are able to see tangible improvements. We accept that this will not happen overnight but it also cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely either.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
Although named the Concept Collection, these outfits are final and released. They all come with various options, slacks or skirt, plain tank? or polkadot tops and even shoes in matching colors and dito textures. Speaking of which….. the textures are so gorgeous. Eclectic, vibrant and rich designs in fabulous? shades. Sherona has been playing with the current hype for a more corporate look and has come up with a very playful and authentic collection. Although my favorite is the black and grey suit, I also adore the brown and turquoise outfit that I wear here with the trousers, but? I also love the teal outfit and oh well, the turquoise and pink one is too cute as well.
