I disagree with local drive backup as a viable option for inventory. Some of our inventories are massive. How much space, would such backups take on your local harddrive, considering that you are storing more than just your inventory backups on them (the second life client for example, as well as your default programs and any others you may have purchased). Compounding the problem is the possibility of hackers unlocking permissions.

Speaking of which, yes permission bugs need to be taken care of. It would also be cool if you improved the interface so that they were easier to set upon object creation.

I also disagree with those of you who suggest limiting inventories. You don’t think that won’t hurt vendors at all? “I’d love to buy your item, but it seems my inventory is full.” We’d have the same problem we do with group limitations (I’d like to see you do something about that too Lindon Labs! There are plenty of good groups I’d like to support, which I can’t because of the limit) Or just maybe come back to bite you in the bum when enough people complain about it that they limit inventories for everyone?

Ever consider that the reason some of us don’t pay for our accounts is because things like inventory loss make it kind of JNWI (just not worth it)?

Kudos to the Lindons, by the way, for stepping up actions to combat this problem. I would very much like to be in this for the long haul, and look forward to seeing Second Life become much more impressive, and these days of increasing public ire and distrust regulated to a chapter in your storied history.

Board meeting of lil Lindens sitting around. Slow realisation that competitors are coming, the residents are restless and paying members ARE leaving. (as an aside the petulant “if you don’t like it here, then leave” blogs are getting fewer it seems? Hint: Don’t EVER tell paying members to leave, they are a finite resource)

Nervous looking around, some at the table will be at the dole queues soon if something isn’t done to placate the angry paying mob.

Panic, finally a lil linden raises a hand and says the great unwashed scum have been whining they keep losing things and they don’t buy our line that its their fault”. Maybe we could tell them we will consider the possibility of forming a working party to examine the possibility of forming a project task force to consider looking at whether we should possibly form a committee to prepare a draft memo to notify we want to look at whatever it is simplest to fob them off.

Result memos like this
Resident Reported Inventory Loss Analysis
While we expect to make significant improvements with the projects above, we know that we will not catch all sources of inventory loss. Thus, we are planning on starting a project within the next month to collect and analyze patterns of inventory loss reported by our Residents. This will help us develop use cases of where inventory loss is still occurring and allow us to validate whether we have really fixed various problem areas.

Be nice if it was written in English Indeed the whole speil is techno impressive babble designed to awe the great unwashed. ie the earlier bit about 900,000 unique logins? not 900,000 different people, the same could be 30,000 same people logging in 30 times each. That makes 900,000 unique logins also . That means only 30,000 active inventories to look at. The figures shrink then. As LL doesnt bother actively helping non paying (free) members and the ratio of free members to paying members is high, the numbers of actual active inventories to be checked would be small. That is not even hinted at.

For those doing the math of “size doesmatter” in hard drives, if the ratio is 15 free members to ever paying member as (an example only) 30,000 users a day divide by 15 to give 2000 paying members online. A much smaller figure to work with.

Pity gambling is banned we could run a pool on which lil linden will be going first to the dole lines.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating, lots of techno babble that very carefully did not commit to anything, expect more of the same as competitors become a viable alternative.

Finally I’m not sure the bit about “thanking for your patience”, as if there was ever any choice in the matter for users. Screaming the same thing over and over for months by the great multitude of users, and consisently being treated as non people by LL. As late as this week by Robin’s reply to the “Lights are on but nobody is home “blog ( something like that anyways) Robin deliberately did not address or acknowledge the overwhelming single point being shouted. Hmmmmm . Now in effect are we are being thanked for letting LL ignore us all this time? Hmmmm

Inventory loss? No problem when i can’t log in to check, lol!