Amazing, But Not True
Wyald Woolley left a message that supposed came from the CNN News Wire. It’s easy to realize that this was made up, though, and could never truly happen.
“For nearly 15 minutes yesterday, SecondLife experienced unprecedented stability.” (Read it all)
This whole week has been plagued with outages, rolling restarts, and the SL web site going down, all while Linden Lab tries to perform upgrades without actually bringing the whole grid down. The latest is that a rolling restart that started, today was “suspended” with only 30% of the regions having been complete. Once regions restarted, the reports of problems started rolling in.
Map Search is now “borked“, according to the latest blog post.
I’m sure we haven’t seen the end of the problems that this latest update will cause. It could be another week or two before they get the whole grid updated. In related news, it looks like Twitter is experiencing some of the same problems, and although Twitter’s service is free, it’s users aren’t standing for the bad service.
Maybe people that use Twitter should be more like people that use Second Life. They should just “expect” the bad service and connection problems. Wouldn’t life be easier for everybody if companies didn’t actually have to deliver what they advertise? In the same respect, I suppose that the computer that I just bought my kid should only be expected to work for him “at times”, and never really have everything working exactly right.
I’m honestly hoping that they get their shit figured out and after all of this updating and the problems with it, maybe things will run better for everybody. I “hoping”, but I’m not holding my breath, at all.
Malignant Narcissist @ February 1, 2008