I think the reporter sums it all up well

Thanks for providing this wonderful world for us all and for your endeavors to clear up the bugs. You get a lot of flak but we really appreciate what you do.

As for the non-English speaking crowd—-it would have been nice if, along with LL actually having functional video, there were other streams that could be accessed having translated audio or subtitles. It was a planned speech, not a Q&A session, so it shouldn’t be too hard to translate in advance.

I once attended a 4-sim SL fashion show. The stage was in one sim, and the seating was in the other three. Very smart, so that the models could do what they needed with the least lag. The seating sims were so congested, though, that the models appeared (of course) all in grey, and alternately twitching or frozen. The only way I knew what was going on was through the very nice concurrent video available from a website. Why not something like that with SLBD?
(I am not a techie—there may be reasons this would not work on a larger huge-o scale—I plead ignorance.)

That event was small, though, in comparison to the SLBD. Fashion shows have a group-specific pull, and will be big, but not *that* big. It seems that there just isn’t yet a way to have an event with SL-wide appeal without paralyzing problems. Problems are to be expected with any big to-do, but not of such magnitude that the show can’t go on.

I know that an incredible amount of planning has gone into this event, and this is the 4th such anniversary. What type of troubles were there last year?
No, I take that question back. Last year, there were not a hundred million billion residents in-world. I guess that changes everything.

I’ll keep trying to visit the celebration and hope for the best.

The server kept giving full errors, no one could get to the show because of teleport problems, none of our animations or visuals worked, and to crown it all, all 3 of our clients crashed.

On the positive side, the audio was good.

We always put a lot of work into our shows and, to be honest, we are seriously questioning the use of SL as a medium.