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Second Life: New Forum/Community Site … Almost

2017/03/01 by Nalates Urriah

Today I see the new SL Community Site is up. Not working, but there is a new landing page. No posts are showing. I can’t post anything. But, there is progress… I think…

Second Life Bits 2017 w09

2017/02/28 by Nalates Urriah

Forum

There is an update on the new forum roll out. See: UPDATE: New Community Platform Timeline.

Seems the data transfer is taking longer than expected. So, the forum remains locked today, no posting. The forum should open 2/28… some time today… well may be…

Mesh Addicts

Mesh Body Addicts has a new Weekly Fitmesh Finds are here! I’m not sure how much their finds affect traffic to the regions listed. My empirical experience is: it may take days for me to get into some of the regions listed. Uber seems unusually busy.

Internet Outage

2017/02/28 by Nalates Urriah

The outage is large enough to be making national news. Amazon cloud servers went down. That affects many web sites and services like Second Life. The SL asset services depend on Amazon’s cloud, the S3 services – AFAIK. SL login is supposedly not affected. The login servers are in one of the Lab’s locations or on … Read more

Second Life Current Problem

2017/02/28 by Nalates Urriah

Currently, Tuesday 2/28 at 10:15 AM SLT, There are grid problems and login problems. Lindens are investigating. We are on ‘do not rez no-copy items’ status. You may have problems rezing anything. It seems a service provider to Linden Lab is having problems. Identified – We have identified the issue as a problem with one … Read more

AvaStar 2.0 RC2 Released

2017/02/22 by Nalates Urriah

Just a couple of days ago RC1 was released. About 2 hours ago RC2 was released. See: Avastar-2 RC2 is available. There is a download link on the announcement page to the new version. This version has a fix for an export problem.

Second Life: Performance Changing

2017/02/222017/02/22 by Nalates Urriah

As the Second Life™ system advances more of the content will be transferred to the viewer by HTTP protocol. This takes load from UDP and the region server-simulators and moves it to the Content Delivery Network (CDN).

We expect some degree of region performance improvement, especially in crowded regions with lots of avatars. But, there may be a cost for those on slow Internet connections. It is hard to estimate the impact on those with slow connections. But, there are things they can do if they see performance degrade.