I was a mere noob hanging out at welcome area when you were typing your greetings and there, i saw my name in chat line hahaha

Any thing I do will never have me at that level below the slime on the bottem of the septic tank like people who think it is fun to rape.Oops forced fantasy, edge play what ever you want to call it. Since it is illegal in a lot of countrie to even act it out. that makes all of you sex offenders. I am glad Linden Labs had the crack down and removed all these pediphiles from second life. Now all we need is across the board IDV so we know who these people are.

But really, should I care what someone who’s unfamiliar with third grade grammar and who somehow thinks that my avoidance of this shortcut means I won’t have to deal with other people using it thinks about something they can’t even begin to comprehend?

I love coming out of my sim to deal with the dolts of “Fuzzy SL.”

We were just discussing these things this evening at our sim. It is a fact that the vast majority of SL users are new, most of them less than a year, year and a half in age. So they don’t know how SL used to operate.

Mind you, SL has always had problems, serious ones. Some of the problems in the past have been somewhat fixed (there used to be a gigantic “ghosting” problem). Others haven’t (such as crashing on teleport). But like you pointed out Montana, the more time passes, the worse SL gets.

No naysayers, we’re not crying doom and gloom here. We’re stating fact. When we opened our first sim 3 years ago, the sim was on its own dedicated server. It ran lightning fast. We could get 24 avatars on a sim without any discernable lag whatsoever (anything past that and lag started to show, but it was generally recognized that 24 avs was the “safe” nolag mark).

Further, SOUNDS and ANIMATIONS played correctly. None of this current nonsense where an avatar goes through all kinds of movements, only to have the accompanying sound show up 30 seconds to a minute later. The sounds and the animations were synced. Anyone tried to play one of the “CDs” lately? The sound is chopped to bits. Those used to work perfectly.

Group chat used to work perfectly, without a hitch. That problem has just developed within the last year. What can we say about a company that can’t even get chat right?

I also have to be perfectly honest and say that in that 3 1/2 years I’ve been on SL… I have never seen such a mess of restarts, crashes, lost data, messed up inventory and building like I’ve seen over the past 3 weeks. What is going on at Linden Lab? I’m starting to wonder if Cory was the reason SL programming is messed up… or if he was the one holding SL together. No way to know. All I know is that as of this writing, SL is majorly borked and it’s getting worse with each passing week.

About the only thing out of LL and SL that seems to work properly is Torley and his Tips.

The rest of SL seems to be in a serious mess, and getting worse. Fact is, no only is LL not fixing the bugs, they’re breaking things that once worked. There’s not much excuse for that. If this was any other computer company, a bunch of programmers would be handed their heads on a platter.

So, although Philip said he wanted stability over shinies, here we go with a terrible server update, a third attempt at asset server cluster enhancement, and you are rolling out major graphical changes (Windlight), Physics (Havok) and scripts (Mono) all at the *same* time? Clearly all are far from close to ready for prime time.

You can’t even fix simple things with any great time expediency, and then they often get broken again with the next update.

And we get a video on spamming gestures, and how to use the search that doesn’t actually pull the right thing up on the still beta JIRA? I mean, use about 20 keywords on something, it’ll pull up nothing, so create a new ticket, and find next day there are already 20 outstanding issues covering that topic, with all the search words you used in the comments. I call that a broken search.

Interestingly enough, in the few hours since I wrote that little blurb Linden Labs managed to break several things I never thought breakable. so reality once again exceeds the bounds of fiction.

So, here it is, Friday night in the the North and South American continents and Moe has turned to Curly and said, “There’s only one way to fix this mess, REBOOT the grid!”

@6 - The dateline is a mere two years away. You’re being awfully optimistic! LOL

@10 - Bro, that would leave just Torley, a couple of NOC guys and the cleaning lady left! ROFLMAO

@14 & 17 - Objects with descriptions longer than 255 characters have been known to go *poof*, never to return. Some scripters use description fields to maintain a somewhat crash-proof state for an object as the description resides in the the database.

You make an excellent point. It seems to be typical policy these days for the Lindens to keep comments closed when reporting problems through the blog (Kate & Teeple, are you listening, poppets?).

I think Matthew Linden’s blog post was nigh unto useless as it didn’t contain sufficient information. While the information is available to read in the JIRA, not all users are familiar or comfortable with it to go look it up. A synopisis or a summary would have certainly been helpful.