Found in someones profile:
IF YOU ARE READING MY PROFILE, YOU HAVE ENTERED THE NO DRAMA ZONE! I DO NOT HAVE TIME FOR DRAMA WITH YOU OR YOUR SL BABY’S MAMA. LOL
and on the 1st life tab:
I HAVE NOT HAD A REAL LIFE SINCE I JOINED SECOND LIFE.
SO, I WILL NOT ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT MY REAL LIFE!
One of the most annoying and persistant bugs at the moment is the broken friends list. This is a very critical feature since many rely on it working properly. Here is the bug for this in JIRA, the open issue tracker of LL, quite an interesting read about it. It goes back into March, quite a bad thing, if you ask me…
Focus Online, one of the biggest German magazines, ran an interview with Philip Rosedale yesterday. The main focus, of course, has been Second Life, not real much chat about child pornography, whatsoever.
Some of his points and views are:
Well, that’s about it, not really new points in it, anyway. The question for me is, if Second Life is really some kind of community or not.
If so, generating value out of the community can be a difficult kind of beast, because often what the community wants is not always what the company wants or is allowed to do by law. For example, the success of Youtube is founded on massive copyright violations, because that’s what the community wants, easy access to video clips.
If Google for example really is starting to make Youtube lawful, the community just would find a new service to get their thing and leave Youtube behind. That’s the problem with communities.
And some of the steps that LL is going to do in the next time have the potential to alienate great parts of the community, if there is such one thing. And if the alienation is big enough, we could expect to see a big player migration to some other places. That’s why opening up their server could still make sense to them, because then people could just host their own thing and LL would not be liable for it, anymore, as it is in some countries still at the moment, and the community would like that step, too.
There’s an interesting piece of transcript at Prokofy Neva’s blog. The last inworld office hours of Philip Linden caught his attention, so he went there and spoke some words with him. A quite interesting read, though it seems to me that Phil Linden most times evaded Prok Neva’s questions, whatever, must be my imagination.
Today was the planned 4th birthday event with Philip Linden as key note speaker at a new made sim named SL4B. The event was supposed to start at 12:30 pm SLT with the sim going public for arrivals at around 12.00 pm SLT.
Well, guess what happened? It turned out into a big disaster. The event did not happen at all. From all four adjacent sims avatars tried to enter the main sim – makes you wonder why they didn’t make a design like Pooley stage and used repeaters. The supplied video stream was often not working because of not enough listener slots in the video server. There have been several griefer attacks at the main sim SL4B, mostly poofs, too.
And the best of all – Philip Linden was not able to enter the sim at all, so after around two hours of desperate tries they scratched the keynote and event at all of the agenda. Makes me wonder if they are now going to learn about it and going to implement some kind of bandwidth allocation for entering a sim in kind of a VIP list, meaning: if you got a 40 avatar sim you can say: 35 normal avatars are able to enter the sim and 5 predefined VIPs. When 35 normal avatars are in the sim, it’s full for all normal avatars of us, but the VIPs can still enter the sim. This would be handy…
The avatar peak at the main sim was first around 90, later the maximum seems to have been around 40.
And to quote some Lindens:
[13:41] Video Linden shouts: Philip can’t get back in
[13:42] Iridium Linden: Folks, Philip can’t get back into the clinet.
I guess it’s kind of comforting for many SL residents that even the mighty Lindens have problems with Second Life and I think some have been really spiteful about the turnout of those events, too.
Perhaps it is still going to happen somewhat later, but this event has been truly a victim of the success of Second Life. You simply need much better avatar counts per sim for such kind of events at all.
