So I told you…

…at Monday this week I’d like to see regional datacenters, like in Europe or Asia, today is technical town hall and what can I hear there?

[12:50] Cay Trudeau: Do you think arranging physichal server on other continents, like Europe for instance, would ease up on the server load, ease the connections and allow better performance for European residents? Would that also lift the load from sending texture data across the wire?
[12:40] Cory Linden shouts: We absolutely want to deploy servers overseas. We have an architectural quirk in how we talk to the dbs — a layer of single threaded dataservers —

Neat! And, another quote, by the way:

[12:44] Cory Linden shouts: As I previously mentioned — and was in the blog post — 69% of development is currently on bugs and scaling. That number will increase this month as we continue to hire.

Main priorities are now scaling and bugfixing. Hopefully. By the way, the group message system was broken so much again, it was not funny. And the Lindens held the town hall at Pooley Stage, all regions full already hours before the Town Hall. Perhaps it’s next time better when they’re going to hold it on four class 5 sims.

The Open Letter revisited and first reactions

The number of undersigners of the Open Letter grows at great speed. Yesterday there were perhaps around 1500 undersigners on it – now there are already 2541 underwriters on it. Well, it had some kind of effect already, the Lindens replied in their blog to it.

Their response at the moment is like this: we’re working on a detailed response, in the meantime please look there and there for more information, and oh, by the way, we’re going to hold a new town hall meeting soon

The responses vary, I think, it is too early to judge since they are still working on their real reply.