The Second Life See Saw

October 09th 2006

Second Life has been having some major problems with griefers over the weekend. This has caused them to take the grid offline a couple of times.

Millions of Us GatheringI wil give them major kudos for keeping the community up to date through the Second Life Blog. It’s the first place I go whenever I have a question on the status of things. Few companies do this as well.

It is a bit challenging though when you are trying to conduct buiness that requires you to be in world, but the world is offline. It’s a new challenge that we are all trying to figure out how best to react to. Meetings get canceled, but do you reschedule in world or do you go back to traditional means.

We all know about “black Wednesdays” and how you never plan an event of any importance on a Wednesday because this is when Linden has scheduled down time for upgrades.

Now though as I plan some major events in Second Life I wonder if like in real life we often have rain dates do we now need back up dates for SL Events? What are your thoughts?

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  • http://www.themshow.com John Wall

    That, or talk someone at SL into creating a second area that stays up (on a previous build?) when other stuff goes offline for upgrades, etc…

    A chance to monetize?

  • http://www.matthewebel.com Matthew Ebel

    I think I’d be more interested in SL if you could buy VR goggles that would interface with the engine. Might as well see the whole thing in real, legitimate 3D.

    You’d just need the fattest processor and pipeline known to man to pull it off.

    Pax,
    Matthew

  • http://www.financialaidpodcast.com Christopher Penn, Financial Aid Podcast

    Rain date, maybe. Or rain location – you could always use 37signals’ Campfire or the bazillion IM options. True, none of them have the level of interactivity of SL, but if the show must go on…

  • http://lookingoutthewindow.com Ed Roberts

    John,

    I know SL maintains a BETA grid that they use for testing. While I haven’t played around with it (nor would necessarily trust it’s stability), there may be that option out there. You can also try Skype. While sending slides and videos to a group through Skype may be a royal pain in the butt, it could be done.

    I think that SL has enough stability problems that a “rain date” or location would certainly be a good thing. Anyone who will be attending meetings in SL would realize the importance of this, as we ALL deal with downtime and botched upgrades.

  • http://musicface.com/uncleseth/news.html Jay Moonah from Uncle Seth

    It’s funny C.C., I was thinking about this after all the problems this weekend, and the fact that we are trying to organize a show in Second Life… a little scary! But, I think back to the earlier days of the web and streaming media, and all the classes and/or events that got f’ed up by some router going down in Chicago or whatever and I think it’s really just part of the growing pains of the thing. Since it’s in no ones best interest that it remain unstable, it has to get better. I’m sure there’s already a law for this, but if not I’m claiming it as Moonah’s Law! ;-)

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