Planned Outage - Oct. 31st - CANCELED
Friday, October 26th, 2007 at 4:20 PM by: Joshua LindenUPDATE (2007-10-26): The planned service outage has been canceled. More time is needed to prepare the updates, and it may prove to be possible to do so without downtime for all of Second Life.
And yes… the angry mob surrounding the castle with torches and pitchforks made its voice heard! I admit to being totally oblivious by scheduling an outage on the date of one of our favorite annual celebrations. Mea culpa! The shambling horror will slip back into the shadows… for now…
Second Life will be unavailable for approximately 5 hours on Wednesday, October 31st. We will be adding additional hardware to our asset storage system to keep up with growth. No software upgrades are planned, no new viewers will be required after the downtime.
The Beta Test Grid will also be unavailable during this time. We apologize for the inconvenience and short notice.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:24 PM
weeeee upgrading asset servers ^.^
October 25th, 2007 at 3:26 PM
Will we get a trick or a treat when the servers are back online?
October 25th, 2007 at 3:31 PM
It’s a trick! In reality, when SL comes back on-line, every Linden tree will be covered in toilet paper! =^_^=
October 25th, 2007 at 3:34 PM
I hope the sun and moon turn to pumpkins. I sure do miss the sun and moon changing for special days. I wonder if it will say 10,000,000 when we hit that mark.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:35 PM
Your kidding, right?
31. October is Halloween, your killing the best day this month for events. We all knows how unstable the grid is after a downtime.
Do the community a favour and do this downtime on tuesday or postpone it.
Don’t kill the best halloween party time for the europe residents.
October 25th, 2007 at 3:45 PM
Noooo!!! not on OCT. 31st, anyday before or after, but not on Halloween !!!! also mark off on your calanders Christmas and New Years as No Upgrades or Rolling Restarts…
Please ????
October 25th, 2007 at 3:54 PM
If it’s a trick, we’ll come back to shiny new *empty* inventory servers, and all get to start over…
October 25th, 2007 at 3:58 PM
Oh what??
that can´t be true. Hey guys, it is not april the first ;-))
Please think about that date.
still hope that it was just a typing error ;-))
October 25th, 2007 at 4:01 PM
It’s like how at my college they made us leave the campus the same day finals ended because if we were allowed to remain on campus with no more schoolwork, it would just result in massive drinking, drugs and sex.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:02 PM
Look forward to the downtime,
Keep up the awesome job linden lab!
October 25th, 2007 at 4:03 PM
LMAO this must be a joke folks … really …… knock knock … its Halloween … trick or treat ….
October 25th, 2007 at 4:04 PM
I am wondering how ones brain is clicking to plan a 5 hours service outage on the most important SL business day before the christmas holidays. Nearly everyone I know was designing Halloween collections, pumpkin and accessories for clubs etc.. Turns out that wasn’t such a bright idea! It can’t be any other day… noway it gotta be Halloween! If it wasn’t so sad it was almost funny! /me shakes head!
October 25th, 2007 at 4:10 PM
This is a massive scheduling failure.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:11 PM
Please do reconsider the date.
Really don’t think Halloween is the right day — please consider that it’s a holiday and many, many are planning events!
Thank you.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:15 PM
How is it you always jack with things on weekends or big days? why is it never like a wed. always weekends or some other big day. when ppl are shopping and or having more fun…it really is crazy
October 25th, 2007 at 4:15 PM
No i say take it down all day on the 31st. But actually fix it so when we do get back on its working. Unlike last few weeks.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:17 PM
i think if LL should postpone the downtime one day - that’s would help us or change the times it can start early in morning 1am to 6am or day before
October 25th, 2007 at 4:17 PM
Although I’m not directly affected because I don’t have an event planned, I have to chime in here. Halloween is not such a great idea. People have many events planned and downtime after “upgrades” is common. Hold off until Nov 1st!
October 25th, 2007 at 4:19 PM
On halloween!?!?!
This is a joke right. Do you know how many parties are already planned? How many L$ have already been spent on costumes, decorations and the like?
October 25th, 2007 at 4:23 PM
Is it going to make any difference? NO!! On the contrary, sl will probably be worse after these downloads as it normally is after they’re done.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:23 PM
So we better do not schedule any Halloween parties? (Especially not on GMT halloween time?)
October 25th, 2007 at 4:23 PM
good lord…how totally dorky can the so called sl executives be? any pr noobie would have said ‘r u crazy?’ …delay it a day …or a week …try to get something right for once
October 25th, 2007 at 4:25 PM
have to agreee with eh rest thats not such a good day, any holiday isnt a good time . man i feel bad for the europeans that have spend money on coustoems and decortations, clubs that have planed and advertised events… then us americans that will have to suffer a buggy new asset server that night ew. Please reconsider
October 25th, 2007 at 4:28 PM
Why wait till then you already screwed up your busted for you anti semistism SL is a joke, your sneaky and underhanded the minds of many by filling the inventories by there hard earned money , you fluctuate the land prices to suite your needs not the real needs , going down you must be a damn racist and have every one conform to stay , next statement should state the fact that you play mind games with individuals , your a test site for people to screw with I for one will no longer own land or go into the buying frenzy though take up space like most of the people you bring on who follow someone.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:31 PM
laughs at the positive as K*ssers who are linden lab emplyees alts
October 25th, 2007 at 4:31 PM
FOR GOD’S sake LL
Do it after the 31’st
i’ve got stuff planed
my fiends have stuff planed
my friends friends have stuff planed
i’ve spent L$ to decorate and setup for The big H day
DON’T DO IT!
and twhack the genious who set oct 31 as a day to do upgrades. over the head with a pumpkin
October 25th, 2007 at 4:33 PM
soooooooo after this asset server update….will I no longer lose inventory???
I’ve had the same pants for nearly a year now….. I’ve been testing a build swtiching between my standard and an ALT for about an hour now…. then 5 minutes ago…POOOOF! no pants on my standard….can’t be found in the database….no way to get them back…. most annoying.
so will this upgrade fix that problem?? huh huh? will it…PLLLLEEEASSSEE??
October 25th, 2007 at 4:38 PM
Why would you schedule downtime for one of the busiest social dates? SL and Halloween are a perfect pairing, and you’re taking 5 hours of that away? When’s the next downtime, Christmas???? Please rethink your priorities, Linden Lab!
October 25th, 2007 at 4:43 PM
can sum it up in 1 word: rotflmao
October 25th, 2007 at 4:47 PM
I am all for fixes but seriously, folks, on Halloween? If this was to be for April 1st I might get the joke but I agree with the others…your timing is less than great for half of the world. And we all know by now that there is usually more down time later on during the date of any upgrade or maintenance. Please reconsider the date, thank you.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:47 PM
PLEASE don’t do this on the 31st!!!! Can’t this wait one day so we can all have the holiday parties we have been planning? I’ve had my Skate and Date park decorated for over a month in anticipation of this day and you’re going to take SL down? ARGGGGG
October 25th, 2007 at 4:49 PM
Actually Alicia, that are eight words.
But really. This must be a joke, this must be thay they confused April 1st with Halloween?
This is THE event in Second Life. Even more important than Christmas time (which is forced to be spend with the RL family).
Maybe there is a secret pact with the Irish pubs all over the world? As Linden Labs seem to force us not to spend our money to celebrate Halloween in-world and thus feed their economy, but rather prefer to ignore the tons of work that went into content creation and force us to go for a RL Guinness and ghosts.
Can they really be that _dumb_?! Like, Halloween is a Major Event in the USA too, no?
October 25th, 2007 at 4:51 PM
Halloween… your doing maintenance on Halloween?
Knock knock… anybody home there at all?
October 25th, 2007 at 4:52 PM
WOW! I hope that is a joke! Down On Halloween?
What are you guys smokin? and can I have some?
Man lol that is dumb!
October 25th, 2007 at 4:54 PM
Hmm like always just before a holiday or weekend. Did you check that date? Maybe you expect so many people logging in on the weekend, hmm ok, but then also try to have somebody watching the grid and i hope that it will not be unavailable the whole evening here in europe.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:56 PM
Doing this on Halloween is not going to be appreciated given all the events people have planned.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:58 PM
Makes me wonder why I put dozens of hours and more L$ than I want to count on decorating different areas and planning events. Tthis is a slap in the face after having to replace the Halloween decorations that went “Missing” from (though still visible in) my Inventory.
Tells now .. how bad will you bork Thannksgiving?
October 25th, 2007 at 4:58 PM
Hmm it fits with Halloween LOL! Its so stupid its scary!!!!!
October 25th, 2007 at 4:59 PM
Go ahead, I hate Halloween! heheheh!!
October 25th, 2007 at 5:00 PM
I have to agree with the general tone here.
I don’t believe that anyone at LL thought this through.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:02 PM
Always at the same time - early morning SLT. Can’t you be a tad more creative. It’s not morning everywhere you know. It’s evening in my part of the world (Australia)
Guess I now miss out on wishing my American friends a Happy Halloween (those I see in the morning). I’m trying to get into the spirit of Halloween - why bother. Now I also have to cancel the function I had planned.
Glad I held off buying Halloween Decorations (a loss of income for those shops though). I would have been somewhat annoyed had I purchased all these decorations for my event, and now couldn’t use them. Guess there are lots of people in that boat. Not Happy Jan (Aussies will understand this idiom!!!)
Trick or Treat - I’ll say. Certainly isn’t a treat, though, is it. …….
October 25th, 2007 at 5:06 PM
Agrees with muscrat..
it is so stupid to close sl on halloween! Take a look around the grid LL notice anything? Everyone has worked hard for this halloween with decorations and content creation. They have planned events and spent money to get things together! and you ruin it for them? BLOODY BRILLIANT!
October 25th, 2007 at 5:19 PM
What Happened to the listen to the customer transparent tosh the other week , read up change the dates, or is this a great chance to look good say the 31st for hells sake knowing the backlash then change date and gain some brownie points and praise on how great you are Mmm … even still BAD BAD choice of days or a great bit of cheap credit
October 25th, 2007 at 5:33 PM
Just another example of piss poor SL upper management. They had weeks even months to figure out the the CSI thing will bring in people by the droves and they wait until now to upgrade the network.
What it going to take for Philip to figure out that the people he keeps hiring does not know what they are doing?
October 25th, 2007 at 5:53 PM
hopefully ibm will do a better job then the lindens at running second life
October 25th, 2007 at 5:55 PM
this is mad, now you’ve just stopped me spending hundreds of dollars on halloween stuff, talk about SL helping to crash its own economy
October 25th, 2007 at 5:58 PM
C’mon guys, April Fools day is still a long way off.
October 25th, 2007 at 6:04 PM
Please reschedule this date. We have scheduled a demonstration at my university on Oct. 31st, after consulting the downtime calendar. The calendar did not say there would be downtime as of two weeks ago when we schedules the event.
October 25th, 2007 at 6:13 PM
Can you put it off till Thurs?
Halloween is the one day in SL that shouldn’t get interupted by this.
October 25th, 2007 at 6:21 PM
PLEASE! PLEASE! No downtime on Halloween! I have big plans for SL on Halloween … I’ve even taken a vacation day from RL work so I can be online the whole day Oct 31!
October 25th, 2007 at 6:25 PM
ok now is teh time we all have to scream and tyell and MAKE them hear us SAY NO TO HALLOWEEN DAY UPGRADE!! send in emails notes cards letter bombs whatever it takes NO UPGRADE ON HALLOWEEN
walks away wondering if anyone in there has a brain
October 25th, 2007 at 6:34 PM
Wow! October 31st… Looks like an exective decision is needed to postpone one week. I mean really, are there no calendars at Linden Labs with holidays marked on them?
October 25th, 2007 at 6:34 PM
I for one dont’ really mind it. I’m at work during that time.. and even if not, it helps me focus on the important things in first life. =)
October 25th, 2007 at 6:44 PM
Not a good idea.
coco
October 25th, 2007 at 6:49 PM
Wow, just wow. I have to say this is a brilliant move (enter sarcasm here). But seriously, down time on Halloween. Most of the Sim I go to are all prep’d up for All Hallow’s Eve, and you going to shut off SL for 5 hours? Come on people, think before you act. People have spent L$ and planned events. Is downtime on Halloween really a smart move? How you get some rest (cause you brains probably need it), rethink it, and see me when you get up…
October 25th, 2007 at 6:51 PM
Vahn: Think about others before actually agree with this ludacris plan. If you read the comments above you would see PEOPLE HAVE PLANNED THINGS. Not to yell, but its the truth
October 25th, 2007 at 7:14 PM
After reading 56 comments , AND ALL IN AGREEMENT)! When will we know if LL’s is listening ?
Guess my costume will be in mothballs!
October 25th, 2007 at 7:14 PM
hahahahah aw fie
oh well, thanks linden lab, you force me to real life XD
well its a pity its on halloween - but at least the assetserver gets an update.
i think ill get over it
October 25th, 2007 at 7:17 PM
lol are you forcing people to go OUT to enjoy Halloween? That’s funny, and devilishly clever, if that was the intent. Otherwise… come on, you had to pick THAT day, of all days?
October 25th, 2007 at 7:45 PM
C’mon guys. My university is already trying to keep Halloween from getting out of hand. Seems there were some nasty riots back in 2000. If I can’t celebrate in RL, then let me celebrate in SL. Not to mention the fact it is a lot easier to make a costume in SL.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:01 PM
It’s madness of course. Unless you plan to have some special Halloween treat for us all when you fire the grid back up. Will the metaverse be full of sculpt pumpkins, witches and goblins? Candy for all and no dental hygiene required.
No, I suspect it is madness.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:26 PM
Why would you ruin one of the best days of the entire year for us? Why couldn’t you do this a day later.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:37 PM
Bad! too bad! No cookies for you.
But it will let me at least to stay online for more than 20 minutes before crash… I must be thanks for that..
Since last friday outage hundred of residents is getting the same issue. 100% of processor usage >> screen flash >> OS crash…
Try a least postpone it 24h… Please?
Keep the good work LL
/me - I’m missing myself inworld
October 25th, 2007 at 8:59 PM
Right…Halloween eh? Bad business guys. Lately, your updates muck more than they fix.
Examples: still getting lots of packet loss,log in failures, home location (bought property for this??) unavailable, crash on log in, crash for the hell of it,crash upon logging out, TP not working or lagging so bad you are crashed in mid tp…
So, now we have an update on a holiday??
Are you SURE you are not with the governnment? Or worse yet, military intelligence?
I’m fast losing any faith I had in LL fixing anything. Not only do you not hold up yor TOS, you leave a whole lot of crap behind and expect us to pay for it. Not fair, guys, just not fair.
Try to NOT schedule fixes and such on holidays from now on? You are gonna lose so much money on this cluster f***. H onestly, I gotta wish you luck cause you’ll need it.
October 25th, 2007 at 8:59 PM
With LL’s track record, we’ll all be Ruth come Samhain.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:13 PM
please, not on halloween
October 25th, 2007 at 9:23 PM
Ah you see, Torley has gone away and Robin is once more making great publicity and communications descisions.
/me shakes his head. Seriously you guys, go back to just smoking weed, the crack you are now partaking of is seriously affecting your rationality.
BAD LINDENS. (http://img93.imageshack.us/img93/8520/angrymonkey3uv.gif)
October 25th, 2007 at 9:43 PM
All that new hardware is to handle the influx of noobs that registered because they watched CSI last night.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:47 PM
You have to be totally insane. That’s primetime continental European evening hours, isn’t it? …when no doubt untold numbers of parties are already scheduled?
Beyond that, as has been said, if this is one of those times that the downtime brings about several new “features” that later provoke or require service outages… well, then you’ve done yourself serious harm. If SL is down during prime evening hours in any US timezone during Halloween… well, no amount of crappy CSI silliness could possibly make up for the potential loss.
This is just another case, like, say, oh, Voice… of LL overlooking the real wants and needs of users and inexplicably spending time and resources in areas that are totally counter to what might really enhance the experience. I think the policy must be ask people what they really, really want the most… and then do the exact opposite.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:50 PM
It is a shock!! I will be no SL that day, THANKS A LOT Lindens =/
October 25th, 2007 at 9:52 PM
well… 5 hous downtime + possibly 3 hours delay = one third of a day on Halloween - -cool. when on again in most European areas (with the expected 3 hours delay), it is 10 pm RL then - time to sleep soon.
I am pesonally not much intrested in Halloween, but I really feel for all the paeople who prepared events for that date.
October 25th, 2007 at 9:58 PM
On Halloween? During the hours when the Euro residents have events planned? Please postpone this at least one day, surely it can wait one day LL? Crazy decision.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:05 PM
Your kidding Right? No seriously… ON HALLOWEEN when we all have Halloween events in the game planned.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:33 PM
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL COME ON….. what DO you expect from LL? flashes of genius?
Hit Europe with VAT then forget they celebrate Halloween almost as much as the Americans. Maybe they haven’t left their bunkres long enough to be exposed to the RL commercialisation and made the link to how SL is MADE for Halloween…..probably the ONLY DAY in the year when the special effects come into their own.
Thank you for your patience, have a nice day …and maybe, just maybe all those moaning about the whingers will finally wake up to the total absence of customer care…………and be forever silenced….
October 25th, 2007 at 10:35 PM
All the looking and purchasing Halloween stuff now seems have fallen flat - might as well pack it all up and stop planning the parties. There has to be a better time to do this - please .
October 25th, 2007 at 10:43 PM
Just make use of common sense guys… assuing you have some left somewhere this is just ridiculous. Anybody that is seriously in the IT business nows that no manteinance - unless ABSOLUTELY necessary (read that as “emergency”
should be done on high activity days. Its like the CNN planning a broadcast shortage during like… dunno… the Pope election or the NFL final match. Excellent for loosing customers, if thats your target.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:45 PM
BRILLIANT!
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT!
October 31st - 6am to 11am.
You’ve reached a new level of stupidity LL. You just killed the most important show day on my schedule next to Christmas. Thank you very very much.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:48 PM
I’d be happy to just hear at least a response from LL!
And for the comments that are in the vein of keep upthe good work and it won’t matter because I won’t be on anyway. Go away because us who WILL be on don’t miss your kind anyway
October 25th, 2007 at 10:50 PM
Silly Idea …Its Halloween .. Sl has been getting ready for this event for weeks.. why do it that day ??
October 25th, 2007 at 10:54 PM
This is a big joke, is it?????
This is Halloween, haven’t you guys thought that people might have planned Halloween Parties, paying DJ’s, making advertisements, That is ridiculous. When you plan an outage, please look into the calendar and avoid “holiday” like Halloween or similar, and plan the outage a day earlier or a day later. But at least thank you for your notice…
October 25th, 2007 at 10:54 PM
I think the mere fact that they could do this without someone in the office saying “Um… uh… did you really think about that?” speaks volumes.
This is probably a lot like the naming conventions for sims. You’d think someone would glance over the list and say “Nimrod Yaffle… wha? …”
October 25th, 2007 at 10:58 PM
Do the grid a favor and DONT do this Halloween Day, you are shooting more of your residents in the foot than you expect. THAT is not appreciated at all. Please, consider setting the upgrade a few days further up the Calender, even if this WILL help the events, we know the current running with having stability after upgrades.
October 25th, 2007 at 11:07 PM
OMG, not on Halloween please! So many people have planned parties etc etc. I wanted to do a special thing for the people on my 14 sims. Wake UP !!!
October 25th, 2007 at 11:11 PM
NOT on Halloween! Who the hell makes decisions at LL? He can’t be more qualified than a pre-schooler - a pre-schooler would know what Halloween means!
October 25th, 2007 at 11:14 PM
And the lights have gone OFF again at Linden Labs…..
October 25th, 2007 at 11:30 PM
well at lease it wont be on the weekend when there is no one to fix it,maybe with, ibm they can tell the lindens how to run things better, they sure are not doing a good job at it now !!!!!!!
October 25th, 2007 at 11:43 PM
think the fact this doesn’t at all surprise me speaks volumes this is our biggest sales day of the year we spent weeks making items especially for ours and many others favourite holiday and you just killed sales
much appreciated
October 25th, 2007 at 11:51 PM
o.O Don’t For get it is also prime time for Aisia As well. Its my Prime time here in Japan! Many Japanese com on later at night. o.O As well as the Aussies. I Never have complaints towards LL but this was paned wronged LOL
October 26th, 2007 at 12:01 AM
Please, Please do not do this on the 31st October! There are hundreds of Halloween parties planned for that day, at all times to cover the varied timezones. Please dont ruin all of the work!
1 day before, 1 day after, but not 31st October!
October 26th, 2007 at 12:09 AM
maintence is good, you people at LL do a great job of running SL, if you didn’t care about it then there wouldn’t be an SL.
but 5 hours downtime on halloween? umm… bad idea. A lot of people are planning events this year. taking the grid dowm is a crap idea, postprone it to the day after. what if the downtime overruns? normally i’m ok with it, but this is a big day on the events calender. please reconsider
October 26th, 2007 at 12:18 AM
The sound you are hearing is demand, begging for an alternate supply. No one should be able to run a business this devil-may-care toward the end-user without fearing competition.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:18 AM
before comments close, one more thing.
THEY will ignore us and go right ahead and shut down anyway.
I don’t think they care or even read the blog!
October 26th, 2007 at 12:23 AM
Please don’t shut down on Halloween. That would be teh suck on your part.
Seriously, is this a joke? Do you WANT to drive people away?
October 26th, 2007 at 12:24 AM
@92, noooooooooooo they just sleep cause there is no 24/7 service
October 26th, 2007 at 12:27 AM
Thats great news, now we can celebrate Halloween in real life with family and friends. Isn’t that better then in SL?
October 26th, 2007 at 12:31 AM
outage..
looks more like an *outrage* scanning through the comments.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:33 AM
yeah, I have to chime in and suggest that a “Nov 1″ downtime would probably be MUCH less inconvenient to EVERYONE on the grid. Really, you’ve picked THE “party day” the “contest day” and the “event day”.. people decorate for halloween, people buy costumes, build costume, make and even sell costumes for halloween. This is the first halloween with sculpties, and you wanna take the grid down and work on it.. on halloween.
Now, no offense meant to your stalwart staff, but your track record really doesn’t look good for grid usability for the first 3 hours after the downtime. there’s also about a 50% chance of introducing a bug that will take at least 3 weeks to repair, and a 5% chance of a showstopper bug so bad, that you’ll be restarting the grid and applying “quick fixes” all day. Even the most optimistic appraisal looks bleak. After the upgrade, if all goes somehow, magically, perfectly, a whole new group of users will be unable to access the grid, or will experience crashes and errors. It ususally takes these folks a day or two to reinstall or find some workaround to their issue.
Put simply.. if you could wait until November 1 for this update, AND if you ran into a lot of issues with it.. I think you’d see a surprising number of “thank you” messages. And if the update went smoothly (for a change) then the only harm done would be to the schedule, and you’d still see a generous number of “thank you’s” for moving the downtime.
Besides, your programmers will all be wearing restrictive cardboard transformer costumes.. do you really want them working on a major programming emergency while trying to peer through their “Optimus Prime” mask at the screen?
October 26th, 2007 at 12:36 AM
I understand we need downtime its important. But why during this time? its party time all around SL at that time of the year? Oh well can`t have everything.
October 26th, 2007 at 12:55 AM
Christmass, New Years, Halloween, July 4th, November 5th, my Birthday, Philip Lindens birthday. These are days that should be left alone.
Guess Lindens don’t see the Halloween decorations all over. Residents it is our fault for not turning the whole of SL into a pumpkinfest.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:03 AM
hhahahhaha i guess its freddy kruegers chouce of revenge !!!! halloween attack !! lol. Guess now we have time to catch up with RL !! ooops i thought this was RL lol
October 26th, 2007 at 1:04 AM
Its about controling the downtime and have reg periods of them so the game stays stable.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:07 AM
BTW we dont do halloween here anyway but i can understand the american concerns. it will only be peak time for them after the downtime anyway its europe that has the problem !!! lol :p
October 26th, 2007 at 1:07 AM
btw, when one of you will look at my support-ticket from 20. October?
I believe, that this assetserver-upgrade don’t effect my problem!
4051-4273538 10/20/2007 6:03 AM PDT
For your remembership, it’s still unassigned!
And don’t kill the events on 31. october
Damona
October 26th, 2007 at 1:10 AM
is any linden going to answer these obvious requests to move the date at least one day either way? theres almost a days worth of posts here and NO COMMENT ?
its like the government deciding shops must be shut on the busiest shopping day! Its so ridiculous its NOT funny
how strange
October 26th, 2007 at 1:17 AM
NOT ON HALLOWEEN PLEASE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 26th, 2007 at 1:18 AM
Does it really HAVE to be that day? If so then please at least blog to say why. A great deal of work across the grid has gone into Halloween events and a lot of folks want time to make last minute checks and adjustments. PLEASE, PLEASE could it be a day earlier or later? I’m not a techie but this sounds like the kind of thing that could take extra time too isn’t it?
October 26th, 2007 at 1:18 AM
Are you serious? Downtime on one of the biggest olidays of the year?
What the hell is wrong with doing it the day before. Or the day after.
CHANGE THE TIME. This is unacceptable.
October 26th, 2007 at 1:19 AM
On Hallowe’en? Are you mad?
October 26th, 2007 at 1:33 AM
Fan-Freakin-Tastic.. /me straps on helmet and warm coat in fear that hell might just be freezing over.
October 26th, 2007 at 2:13 AM
omg what a terrible timing… couldn’t be worse… why 5 hour downtime exactly at halloween?
@97 “Put simply.. if you could wait until November 1 for this update, AND if you ran into a lot of issues with it.. I think you’d see a surprising number of “thank you” messages. And if the update went smoothly (for a change) then the only harm done would be to the schedule, and you’d still see a generous number of “thank you’s” for moving the downtime.”
so true
October 26th, 2007 at 2:20 AM
WTF? I was scheduled to do a virtual sacrifice of a noob that day! Damn!
October 26th, 2007 at 2:35 AM
NOOOO!! Are you guys mad?? on HALLOWEEN?!
October 26th, 2007 at 2:42 AM
Maintenance crew, say “Hi” to PR crew. PR crew, say “Hi” to Maintenance Crew.
Good luck with the update. LOL!
October 26th, 2007 at 3:00 AM
What’s all this about Europe being hit hard by this (admittedly very stupid) decision?
1pm to 6pm GMT is hardly peak partying time in Europe. Whether you’re in Michelstown or Moscow you can be online by 9pm GMT latest. You’d have to be in Yakutsk to have a problem but I don’t suppose there’s many SLers in Yakutsk and those that there are will be dedicated enough to be slugging back the vodka at midnight GMT.
Byee!
Christi
October 26th, 2007 at 3:03 AM
with all these parties there would be much to much people on the grid.
so good luck with the update! :))
October 26th, 2007 at 3:39 AM
With my work shedual I arive in the last 2 hours of the planned downtime leaving me 2 hours till it’s time for me to hit the RL sleep poseball if all goes well, if it doens’t then I might jus be able to log in in time to say ni ni to my friends *if* they manage to get on as wel.
Better hope that the hardware upgrade goes smooth and we can be back at least an hour ahead of shedual, afterall the regions shouldn’t have to go down for this safing a lot of restart time.
October 26th, 2007 at 3:40 AM
Just another day of the week. Been dealing with the regions I help out with crashing *every* day and usually more than once since 1.13, so learning to keep on keeping on is essential.
Don’t let minor things like updates or apparently lost inventory (it’s not lost, just misplaced in that Fibber McGees closet we call the Asset Servers) keep you from enjoying the day
October 26th, 2007 at 3:57 AM
@114: we have seen considerable delays in updates, if they are scheduled for 5 hours, it can happen that they take 8 hours - then we are pretty close to prime time Europe, but of course this time updated will not be delayed cause it was planned SO WELL, keep up the good work!
October 26th, 2007 at 4:01 AM
Hello Lindens, Hello JOSHUA,
it´s not yet too late. At least add a comment here that you are re considering.
I don´t plan anything on Halloween. Basically I never plan to do stuff on a Wednesday since you´re run updates on that day. And still it is yet more evidence that internal decisions are made without giving consideration to what your customers/residents think.
Or do you actually bring this vaux pax on purpose, so you can reverse it and take some credit of how good you are now listening to the residents? Politics crap?
If not, then I can only follow everyone else here, by saying you do a great job bringing down the economy.
At least you might prove me wrong. As I expect(ed) the exodus when you impose IDV on us. You might actually manage that nothing will be left to destroy when IDV comes along.
Please re think, you´ve had a few good shots lately, but this one here is pathetic!
Good Weekend anyway
Ronia
October 26th, 2007 at 4:04 AM
it is probably because the only person who can manage the update at LL works on Wednesdays only (irony)
October 26th, 2007 at 4:12 AM
this bites … really it does… if any lindens do actually read this blog (which i highly doubt), NOT ON HALLOWEEN!!!
October 26th, 2007 at 4:13 AM
and if yall tired of the bugs in the linden viewer why not try the OnRez viewer, i know its only 1st version thats now available, it seems to be a hell of a lot more stable lol.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:33 AM
LOL they’re closing it down so they can party in their office and hold their costume contest before their work begins for the day. Well everyone deserves a party, and I will be at RL work then anyway so no skin off my nose, but seriously THIS IS NOT A NICE THING TO DO TO YOUR CUSTOMERS LINDENS!!! Which pumpkin head came up with that idea? ;-P
October 26th, 2007 at 4:36 AM
Shock horror… downtime might mean people have to step away from their computers and celebrate an event IN REALITY!
It’s mid afternoon for UK/Europe, early morning in the US… do you have trick or treaters at 11.30am? Of course not. Halloween is meant to be a ‘night time’ event anyway, with the culmination of the thing on midnight (the witching hour).
If you’re going to complain about something, at least check the facts first to see if it’s actually going to be a problem - which, as it seems to me clearly, it shouldn’t if it’s was celebrated properly.
Broccoli
October 26th, 2007 at 4:57 AM
We have parties planned, with substantial outlay in money (it may be Linden dollars, but we’ve spent enough for it to be a fair sum in US dollars) and these start *very* soon after the outage is planned to end, so any variation (as there often is) and we are scr*wed.
perhaps worth pointing out that we, the residents, are what makes SL happen, no residents, no company, no LL and very unhappy investors. I wonder often if LL thinks there are enough people to roll off disgruntled residents, and roll on new ones at a supportable rate, indefinitely - I can’t think how else they can be so (don’t know the right word, this is incomprehensible) inconsiderate with this scheduling. A parallel example: residents of The World (city ship) get an announcement on the 22nd December that the ship will be in dry dock for xmas and they have to get off - they, as paying residents, would soon have something to say about that!! I guess we dont’ really count.
October 26th, 2007 at 4:58 AM
Okay Lindens this is a test: Will you actually be seen as responsive to the people, finally and at last, by moving the upgrade one day — or will you forever seal your reputation as “deaf to all appeals”?
October 26th, 2007 at 5:02 AM
@126, be patient, they are still asleep at West Coast
October 26th, 2007 at 5:02 AM
yeah *whatever* Broccoli, it’s you who check your ‘facts’ before spouting your opinion - what if someone *can’t* get out, and sl is their only outlet? have you thougth outside your box recently?
perhaps i should run out the door and leave my dying partner on his own while i celebrate in the streets.
how considerate you are.
and fyi both the parties we are going to/hosting are in the evening, and end at mignight (are you happy happy happy?) the grid will have *one hour* after it comes back up to stablise before the party begins, so basically when has that ever happened… thoughts, ever?
October 26th, 2007 at 5:04 AM
Downtime on halloween??? I agree with the rest here. Why can’t you move it a day? We look forward to halloween parties, X-mas parties, etc. Why are you planning this for the one day of the year when we all have lots of fun.
At least move it a day…. please?
October 26th, 2007 at 5:07 AM
I would think its the last minute sales people will lose midday european time the figures still top 30k people online.Its our busiest time of the year so I can understand people being annoyed. Not sure about the properly observing Halloween, holidays like any other human activity change over time. The fact the grid usually takes a few days to settle after these works is also an obvious concern
October 26th, 2007 at 5:11 AM
wow, just wow.
i am convinced this got to have been unintended and i