I was doing a search on how much money is being made in SecondLife, and the search results were very old. This tells me that the 3-D virtual reality structure is dead. Let’s face it. If there is no change in any technology structure, than it is going no place…other than backwards. How fast technology is growing, going backwards is not good at all.
The biggest wall that is hurting SecondLife is not that SL was a fad, but the ones that are running SL are falling behind. Here is the Grid status report of June 20-21, 2009:
[RESOLVED June 21, 2009, 8:34 PM Pacific] All regions have been returned to service. The land store is open again.
[UPDATE June 21, 2009, 6:40 PM Pacific] We’re down to under one hundred regions waiting for reactivation. Hopefully this will be over very shortly.
[UPDATE June 21, 2009 6:22 PM Pacific] We’re still working to bring a few hundred regions online. We’ve found ourselves short on simulator hosts today due to a power issue in one of our colocation centers. As the colocation center gets that issue rectified, we’ll use the available hosts to return existing regions to service first, and then reopen the land store.
[UPDATE June 21, 2009 4:30pm Pacific] The Land Store will be offline while we work to restore the remaining regions.
[UPDATE June 21, 2009 2:25pm Pacific] Our technicians are working quickly to restore remaining regions. Please refrain from restarting regions as this could cause a longer downtime for that region during this maintenance issue.
[UPDATED June 21, 2009 1:43pm Pacific] Our technicians are continuing to work to restore service to all remaining regions.
[UPDATED June 21, 2009 12:56pm Pacific] Our technicians are continuing to work to restore service to all remaining regions.
[UPDATED June 21, 2009 11:35AM Pacific] Our technicians are continuing to work to restore service to all remaining regions.
[UPDATE June 21, 2009 10:42AM Pacific] We are continuing to work on restoring regions at this time.
[UPDATE June 21, 2009 9:38AM Pacific] Multiple regions are still offline at this time, we will continue to enable all remaining regions as soon as possible.
[UPDATE June 21, 2009 8:04AM Pacific] Our technicians are continuing to work to restore service to all remaining regions.
[UPDATE June 21, 2009 6:45AM Pacific] Our technicians are working to restore service to 70 remaining regions.
[UPDATE June 21, 2009 5:00AM Pacific] The number of regions that are offline is down to 250. Our technicians are working to restore service to these.
[UPDATE June 21, 2009 3:00AM Pacific] We’re working to restore service to approximately 450 regions.
[UPDATE 12:30AM PDT] Maintenance is ongoing, we are slowly bringing services back online. We had some secondary hardware failures, we hope to be back to full speed soon.
[UPDATE 22:10 PDT] The emergency maintenance has begun.
[UPDATE 21:50 PDT] The emergency maintenance has been moved forward, and will be starting at 22:10 (10:10pm). We will post here as further updates are available.
[June 20 18:37pm PDT] - At approximately 23:00 (11:00pm) PDT tonight, one of Second Life’s primary datacenters will be undergoing emergency maintenance. For an orderly maintenance cycle we will be bringing approximately 5,000 regions offline during the course of this maintenance starting at 22:30 (10:30pm) PDT. We will keep this blog updated with more information as it becomes available. Thank you.
For the grid of SecondLife to go bad most of June 20 and all day of the 21st, that is not good at all for the services that Linden Labs give for SecondLife. They can do much better. This is the six year of having SecondLife online. In the past 2 years, SecondLife had more issues and more people leaving SecondLife due to how Linden Labs is running this system.
From what I have read, Linden Lab had 3 different presidents in the past six years. I do not know about you, but that does not look good for Linden Labs nor SecondLife. With the new Adult regulation that has been put into place, what has it done? Why has not Facebook, MySpace, and other popular social networking services done the same thing? Answer: They would not be all that popular anymore.
I am for child safety online. First of all, children should not be online in the first place. Would a parent drop their children on the streets alone? For children to go online, that is about the same thing. Until Internet Service Providers (ISPs) can stop children from getting online in the first place, no services will rightfully and completely protect children online. I have not seen any software or services that had rightfully done the job in keeping children away from inappropriate websites online. There is no such thing as 100% safe, online or offline.
Instead of rightfully protecting children in SecondLife, the new adult service is causing all sorts of frustration for the adult customers. When a business upsets the apple cart with their customers, that business looses. The six year Birthday bash of SecondLife is this day, Monday, June 22, 2009. How many that will not show up on this event will rightfully tell Linden Labs how bad things are with SL. In the results of how many do not show up, will Linden Labs change things?
The reason for me writing this posting is not to be bitter or ugly towards Linden Labs, but to speak out for all the customers of SecondLife. I am one of them. I want SL to succeed. There can be endless possibilities for SecondLife if the ones that are maintaining it does a lot better job. Right now, I have heard, seen, or read anything positive about SecondLife here lately.
Maybe Linden Labs will do something if they stop making a lot of money from SecondLife. It seems they are not caring if thousands of their customers are leaving SL. I believe when Linden Labs stops making money from SecondLife, it will be too late for them to do anything to do anything positive. Once anything starts falling downhill fast, it is hard to stop.
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