And they wonder why people leave Second Life
I understand that the logistics of running the Second Life grid must be one hell of a task. That said, the announcement by Linden Lab that in peak usage times they’ll be disabling some of the in-world services to cope seems farcical to me. It’s the equivalent of shutting off the lights on a passenger [...]
Linden Lab’s I-World island: window-dressing or real help?
Linden Lab have announced an enhancement of their in-world support through the creation of I-World Island, which will launch on the 5th April. It’s fair to say that Linden Lab have made progress in their in-world support, although it’s still hard not to agree with one commenter on the Linden blog where the announcement was [...]
Linden Lab give glimpse of Dazzle
There’s some welcome improvements on the way with the vanilla Second Life browser interface. They’re cosmetic improvements, but a much needed step toward making in-world navigation that little bit more pleasant.
Latest Second Life service metrics posted
It’s all here on the Linden blog. There’s now a full set of data for 2007 performance including until end of January 2008: It’s fair to say things are still far from pretty on the stability side. Still more than one in five Second Life sessions end in either a viewer or region crash although [...]
The Linden Department of Public Works launches
Linden Lab today announced some long overdue content creation for mainland residents of Second Life: “What will we work on? Good question; basically, we will consider anything and everything that we feel will make the mainland more attractive, fun, engaging and interesting for new or existing residents. Initially, we’re looking at extending the city area [...]
Second Life glitchiness continues
Map search or image not showing up after inventory problems earlier in the day. How’s Second Life stability been for you so far in 2008?
Linden Lab Press ‘Tech Talk’ Media Conference – Aussie Second Life servers still likely.
Today at 3pm SL time (10am Saturday 26th January AEDT) Linden Lab held a media conference entitled ‘Tech Talk’ that featured Linden Lab’s VP of Platform and Technology Development Joe Miller, VP of Systems Engineering Ian Wilkes and Software Developer / Havok 4 ‘Guru’ Andrew Meadows. Each member of the media present was allowed one [...]
