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…
General News
Second Life Bits 2017 w09
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
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 co-location hosts other than Amazon. But, once logged in you may not rez, the region may not rez completely, and your inventory may not populate.
Do NOT try to change or fix your appearance. You will likely confuse your viewer and make things worse. Do as little inventory-asset related tasks as possible.
Second Life Current Problem
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 of our service providers. They are actively working to correct the problems.
Logins should not be impacted, however the asset system continues to be problematic. Additionally, other services including search.secondlife.com, my.secondlife.com, and more have been impacted as well, and will remain so until the issues have been resolved.
We will update this blog with additional information when we have it.
Feb 28, 10:32 PST
AvaStar 2.0 RC2 Released
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
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.