Well it’s evening and once again the Second Life asset servers are not a happy bunch. It wasn’t hard to notice in world before the grid wide announcement not to do anything with your inventory. From the live statistics graph I’m running I can already see that already 10,000 people have logged off or crashed off from the service (and counting). I wonder how many will disconnect or be disconnected before it’s fixed.
[Update 23:10] The drop is now nearer 20,000 people as logins are now disabled.
[Update 00:15] The daily graph has been updated and compares yesterdays (Fridays) online users with previous days.
[Update 00:25] The blog is reporting that SL is alive and well and accepting logins. I hope you can all log back in!
Really guys, what is all this complaining here going to accomplish. If you want to really vent, vent to Linden Labs, they have an email and contact area. I am a user of SL and yes I was about to start DJing, before the crash but c’mon. Things go wrong (more likely than not with SL) but take this opportunity to do something else until the problem is rectified.
D.J Petar Faulds
I am starting to feel a sulk coming on
The withdrawals are setting in!!!
RL is taking hold OMG who knew trees didn’t have a prim count??? I cant fly and my TP isn’t working! I walk around and the feeling comes back to my legs and where is the lag?
Oh no! Whats going on, let me back in b4 I start to remember RL Please 😛
Why do things happen when u are suppose to be doing something..How are all of you doing out there?
Meow!
I would love for them to do research to see how much this is costing vendors. Day after day of not being able to buy things is killing my SL business.
Well once again linden labs F***s up again * headlines read lindens crash into a wall …. seriously guys get better servers take a lesson from square-enix on how to run an online game.
Just Glad it’s getting late where I am, so I can slip off to bed, and fingers crossed it will all be better ( well can log back in at least) it’s everyone in diffo time zones I feel for, not knkowing when this will be fixed.
night xx
I’m with Tasman Perth. MySQL is clearly not up to the task. Why they even chose it in the first place is a complete mystery when things like PostgreSQL are out there.
lalalala As i wait to reenter the world of sl I sing to you my fave tune.hehehe
Dark: “Yea i was in the middle of a 3 hour scripting Job and BAM went to save it and poof my nice lil script is now lost in the sl database some place …”
You mean you don’t cut and paste to a notepad occasionally?
O_O
Sorry, not much more sympathy than people who think their hard drives are invincible and never back things up.
Okay, maybe a *little* sympathy.
Again, another evening of low sales because people can’t get in and shop. Dermot, IMHO the difference between other sites and SL is that SL promotes itself as a commercial and business enviroment. The performance, however, reminds me of T5 Heathrow and the old British rail network. Next thing is each newbie will get a ‘lost baggage sticker’ and sarnie in curlers.
Mac, no one is doubting that this is an amazing thing the Lindens have created, I think we just feel they should be working more to stabilize it instead of offering us new things to cause us more headaches. I too am amazed at the wonders I’ve seen in world. I appreciate the creativity and intelligence it has taken to even consider building SL, but they should also be seriously working on finding better ways to improve our experience, without all the crashes.
Looking at all of these comments, there is one common theme. Real people being disappointed.
Another recurring theme is that we all want the existing system to work properly and for the Lindens to stop working on new Havok systems. We already have enough havoc in SL.
SL currently as enjoyable like a glass of champagne. Great fun, really enjoyable, then you see the turd in the bottom of the glass … the asset servers and customer ralations attitude.
venting is good lol.. it keeps you healthy, besides.. we can sit here and read at least. So keep the coments coming. and Dave.. how many left now? lollllllll
And I was about to share a nice evening alone with someone when first the scripts wouldn’t work, then I couldn’t change clothes, then I got logged out.
Pfeh. It happens. I can assure you that 99.9% of the “That’s IT, I’ve had enough of this crap” people will be slinking back in the chair like a junkie with a fix once the servers are back online.
“It’s a lovely day, tomorrow …”
Lately, and by lately I mean for more than a year now. We all experience server problems, grid problems, and even censorship problems. Yet ther is never a stable solution, all we ever get is that they are sorry and appreciate our continued patience. It is not like we can do anything about it but complaint. Most of us who do pay a monthly fee should be up in arms over this. Usually most companies who fail to provide what one pays for, are left behind and fail, but in SL we do not have that luxury other than leaving forever, and for those us us who put in roots and businesses, that is not possible. I know I might sound like a jerk with this, but I rather have action, not apologies. Saying “I’m sorry” does not really recoup the losses we sometimes face when all this goes down, so for my 1 and a half cent..I say please management, do more than give us empty excuses. Thank you….now I will accept any tomatoes thrown my way 🙂
I am surprised that Second Life works as well as it does considering everything the servers have to track. Whatever happened to the weekly down time for scheduled maintenance that they used to do every Wednesday morning? I think they need to go back to that. As for now, I will concentrate on my First Life.
Hmmm anyone done the math with the stats of late. Check how many are on on average (55-60k) recently, then check the 30 day figure and divide it by 30, math probs at LL mebe?
now we sing Nacho Nacho Man as we wait for the RL world to rez >.>
o m g … this is right royally pissing me off. . .
they could at least tell us whats goin on.. when its gna be fixed.. dickheads
OMG! it’s still not online – I’m gunna have to do (shudders) housework if it goes on much longer……. and my UK bf had just come inworld – only get to see him weekends when we can get some online time that matches up 🙁
I’m geared up with a yearly membership and pay $25 in tier fees each month.
I’m not fussed. When the grid’s back online, we’ll all forget and return to our happy utopian playtime. 🙂
hahaha im gonna get drunk..who cares
DEBATING D0 I G0 T0 BED D0 I STAY UP ….BED , STAY UP…..WHATS A GIRL T0 D0 …..MAYBE 0NE M0RE H0UR 0F WAITING NEED MY FIX L0L
Just sing a happy song lol and you will feel better lol well Atleast I know no ones at The Mark waiting on me casue we are all waiting to get back on here to go there ugggggggg let me in
>> Curious George – Not sure what you’re quite getting at. I’m on every day and I’d only count as one person logging on in the last sixty days.
What is WRONG with the Matrix [Grid]???
Note to Lindens: Dump LSL.
And as for Tasman Perth’s comments regarding MySQL, please watch this video from Google/YouTube’s Cuong Do as he describes how YouTube dealt with their multi-terabyte, and faster growing, database on MySql and related, progeny databases.
And after watching it, please forward it to the Lindens!
I just started on SL last night as a total noob and I have been waiting to get started and get going and I can’t even log in.Hopefully it’ll be up and running really soon!!!
Im In UK And You Cant Even Get On It ! xD Getiin Annoyed Now LOl ,, But iim Good ! 😀 X
I’m pretty sick & tired of the asset server too.. I mean… as a budding designer I’ve become rather deterred by the recent instability of SL because it’s not always guaranteed that what you upload will come up. Plus the wait times. And right now for some reason, I can’t go into “edit appearance” without it slowing waaaaaaayyyyyy down, almost crashing really. I think over the last two days I’ve crashed 20 times. lol. definitely frustrating.
I do hope though that they are able to figure out the problem, implement a workable solution and let us all get back on lol. We need our SL CRACK!! lol j/k. But I agree with Mac, they have created a really fantastic world with endless possibilities. But just as our Real world isn’t perfect, neither is SL. (Lol could I spew out any more bullshit? must be the withdrawl)
sorry forgot the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW5_eEKEC28
I am now singing Should I Stay or Should I Go
Morpehus – Neo did you screw up the matrix again?
Neo – I only hit smith once
Smith – Ow… that hurt did i hit a linden? Ah crap…
Homer – How the F**** Did i get here?
Its a sad sorry tale….im having to resort to msn mesenger to speak to people….darn!!
I agree the a poster above, I am a paying customer with a business in SL, but I’ve had iut. A straight week of being unable to run my business. When my subscription runs out, I’m down grading to. I’ll pay them nothing for nothing too.
How long is it going to be? I need my fix!
wooo hoo she is singing you should stay
Lucretzia Laville not go stay stay stay we are haveing fun fun fun
I’m curious, is there an association or union which could give us some muscle to insist on a planned programme of improvements?
If there is one will a member please IM me. I’m in the UK and trying to update my own game database within an external httpdb so my game is within a game, but has not caused the hassle we are experiencing here.
Thank goodness my db is outside SL now.
I want to my secondlife please.
I was just about to jump on a make love ball !!!!!!
just to let you all know your withdrawels are over … i’ve just logged
Logged in, not sure if it’s a permanent thing though…
Dingthat, fair point about the business aspect, but some of these other grids are also selling sims, regions & estates and trying to position themselves in the same space as SL.
I have been playing with OpenSim for the last 24 hours (yes at least I can log in and put boxes down on the ground lol), but there is so much that is not supported – they have a loooong way to go to catch up.
As far as the MySQL, it’s easy to stay blinkered and not take a step back to look at the bigger picture. SL has evolved and MySQL is ingrained in their systems right now. Hindsight is always 20/20 vision 🙂
Foamy – What the F*** ? im tired of getting these people based in india! and what the heck is up with this stuck prim? Fix it! Fix it now! or face my squirrly Wrath!
Damn !!!!!! Got back in …some one beat me too it !!!!
finaly i am in
I would be happy if my inventory loaded the correct amount each time, an maybe take the freebies when they do a fade off into SL obscurity. Prim Docker is gone to say nothing of numerous things I have had to purchase over and over again. I am not sinking any more money into SL. I have spent waaaaay too much here just to lose so much of it. Was right in the middle of a build and every time it goes down, with NO warning, NO Aye, Yes, No, Kiss our arse, I lose a lot of stuff. We all do the Linden Lag. No, it isn’t an exact science, but neither is neurosurgery and yet people are treated and go on. Quit applying bandaids, LL, and fix the original problem. Better servers, a more caring concern about your customers who indeed put the food on many LL employees’ tables would be a grand start, or how about just rweturn everything that has disappeared from my inventory. Oh, and just to get a little gripe out of the way, I am sick of arriving somewhere with my shoes, hair, etc. stuck to my arse. Maybe it is trying to tell me something: I should have kicked myself in the arse for ever sinking a dime into this mess. Someone said we are addicted. It is hard to walk away from thousands of dollars spent here. If LL ever reads these comments it appears that it is a matter of simply not caring. They are laughing all the way to the bank here. I feel for the merchants and there are some very good ones who will replace what LL has lost. Oh, and about that party they might be having, if they are using the things we no longer have in inventory, it must be a heck of a smashup party.
They’re bluffing! dont log in it will eat your soul!!!!
Gives everyone AAH bath bags ~ eases stress and relaxes the mind 😀 – gather yer MP3 and mellow ducks and lets float,..
SL’s offline at the moment,. but hey doesn’t a bath sound good:D