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Yes, I got that, no worries. I just took the opportunity to make clear that the improvement not only didn't improve anything for me as it even made it worse.

Hi, Oz, thanks for posting here. OK, I am in Portugal, and tried the SL Viewer this Monday, from about 7 AM to around 9 AM GMT (it's SLT +8) and later on, around 4 PM my time (8 AM SLT) and the second time it was much worse — that's why I wrote that when the US are "awake" it all gets worse. The loading issues applied to everything — textures, meshes, etc. Even each time I opened the landmarks window there was a very noticeable delay. I'm not going to provide here info about my ISP, but of course I will do that for Support if the problems become critical to the point it's impossible to do anything, so I'm going to give it a few days and see how it goes (using Firestorm.)

From the release notes: "This viewer moves fetching of several types of assets to HTTP. This means that landmarks, wearables, sounds and animations will now be fetched the same way as textures, via a direct query to CDN instead of through the simulator. This should generally make loading of such content both faster and more reliable." Shame that what it's written there isn't happening... I tried that very same SL Viewer version the other day because I wanted to check if it was a Firestorm issue, and nope, it was even worse... Inventory loading was slooooow. Changing outfits was simply painful.

Yep, it has been happening to me too, but it may be more than the CDN, as inventory has been awfully slow. Note: it is much worse when the US are awaken.

Yes, it's been bad, and I partially blame it to poor quality CDN providers. Still, one thing that I noticed was that the SL Viewer loads inventory much slower than Firestorm (yeah, I wanted to try it and see if it was a viewer thing or not.) No idea why, since I configured its settings as I have them in Firestorm...

That's another good point, I believe. Maybe inventory loss helps keeping SL's economy going... If people just don't drop it for good, tired of annoyances like those.

Funny enough, I've always had avatars, hair, skins, eyes, tattoos & make-up, and more recently mesh body parts, under the Body Parts system folder; all outfits under Clothing; and all the rest under Objects. I didn't do that to prevent inventory loss — only now I understand it's probably the best solution — I just did it because it made sense to me. So, maybe, that's why I only noticed one item missing over the 5+ years I've been in SL. And it's something that I most probably deleted while remodeling my place... Note: Ah, and textures under Textures, scripts under Scripts, and so on.

Here we go, Whirly: inventory has 42,367 items at the moment, and I keep trash empty at all times; as for my connection to http://tucson.speedtest.net/ (average of 3 tests) I just got 58.70 Mbps download, 3.30 Mbps upload; the ping is high, but it has always been — 185 ms. I have a 100 Mbps connection, and of course I get a download speed of nearly that when I test it using my ISP's tool. Anyway, my connection seems to have dropped quite some since February 2016, when I did my last test connecting to http://tucson.speedtest.net/... At the time, the average value for download was around 80 Mbps. I am in Portugal, by the way, and my partner, who is in the UK, has been experiencing the same issue as of late, but she actually has a slow connection. Note: I use Firestorm only, always the latest release.

I don't like conspiracy theories, and I'm sure no one at the Lab would ever do what you suggest. It is a sad coincidence, yes, but I refuse to believe it is more than that, especially because I experienced some weird issue with inventory in the last couple days. Here's what has been happening: I purchase something (a demo or full product) or just take back into inventory one of my own items rezzed in-world, and it only shows there after I re-log. It hasn't happened too often, but has been happening enough times to get me worried now, after reading your post. At first, I thought it was because I was at very busy regions (Fantasy Faire) but it also happened at a premium sandbox where there was only one other avatar at the time. And my inventory is half the size of yours... and no, I don't have a flat inventory — at all. Now, when was the last in-depth asset database maintenance performed? I mean a proper scheduled maintenance, not one of those emergencies when it's already broken.

You've got to be joking... The money LL is putting into developing Sansar is money they make with Second Life, and I would expect they'd use it to fix SL's serious issues first of all. Come on, they still didn't even get round to make a decent viewer over the years... No, as noted by others, Sansar is a "different animal", not a Second Life replacement. I've tried the High Fidelity environment and it's just hideous, at its current stage. Still, it probably is quite some steps ahead of Sansar, and the whole principle is way better, as you can host your place and stuff in your own computer. All that said, yes, LL should seriously worry about SL because without it there will be no Sansar, to say the least.

That is mostly a police matter, and this forum certainly isn't the right place for it all, as other posters pointed. What LL will do is investigate the AR's and eventually suspend the griefers accounts (of course that they will create more.) And that is all, as the system provides you tools to solve the problem — set the region's access to group only and set the group to allow membership only by invitation. When/if you contact the RL authorities, make sure you tell them the whole story. As Alwin pointed, it sounds a bit weird that the extortion attempt went via Skype... So it's clear to me that there is a lot more about it than you told us here, but that's none of my business, of course.

Have you lost it? Do you have any idea what you are asking? What about the people who already are using those extra prims? Anyway, do you have any idea what you're writing about at all? Who said it's the prims capacity increase that is causing the current poor performance? Did you join SL last week or something? I've seen this happen too many times over the years I've been sailing/flying around.

Thank you, Patch! :smileyvery-happy:

YAY! :smileyvery-happy: And yes, I only checked Mainland. Thanks for the update, Whirly!

If this is a bug, don't fix it! /me claps happily. I couldn't agree more, Whirly!. If you do the counting, you'll see that's a 1.5 PE bonus. All parcels I checked at other regions on the Main Channel, and that have already been restarted, show such a capacity increase.

Nuggy has been restarted, and now my 1024 sqm parcel there is showing a capacity of 351 PE when it should be only 234. Is there some bonus I don't know about or today's restart just buggered the land for the better? :smileyvery-happy:

That sounds like you're having some some software issues. Check programs running in the background. Anti virus, maybe?

I just gave up and went to sleep. I'm in Europe. We'll see if LL fixed it for real, as they should have done the first time it happened.

Grid status updated Thanks!

Tried to file a suppor ticket but will not go through - just times out and tells me the site is unreachable. Yah, it took me many attempts to be able to get into live chat support. Anyway, thanks for trying to help (and I hope you keep trying :matte-motes-big-grin-wink:)

Well, now I can! Lucky you... I still can't. :matte-motes-dont-cry:

Thank you for confirming, Trin. If you are a premium member, please report it as I did. It seems that the team needs a number of reports before they do anything about it.

Unlike what is written on the GSP (here) the connectivity issues have not been resolved. They were, maybe, just temporarily patched — and not very well. I'm having the exact same problems I had for about 4 hours yesterday. Yesterday, at some point I even started believing that I was having computer problems, despite being able to load instantly all websites I checked — the viewers just hang on login, the progress bar won't move, and trying to load the dashboard on the browser just gets "site unreachable" as a result. Yesterday, LL took about 3 hours to acknowledge that there was a problem. How many hours are they needing today? [EDIT] I can't even open a support case or load the live chat support — "site unreachable". [EDIT 2] Finally, after many attempts, the live chat support loaded and I reported the issue. I was told that the representative alerted the team and that they are keeping their "eyes open for any more reports".

That's really nice, however the URL we're directed to is http://status.secondlifegrid.net, which does not have any information regarding any current issue. Refresh :matte-motes-smitten: It seems that most systems — if not all — were failing for a while. That's why I check the Grid Status on Twitter, here: https://twitter.com/SLGridStatus

No updates or announcements to be seen... There are: https://community.secondlife.com/t5/Status-Grid/Unscheduled-Maintenance/ba-p/3059661 And a while ago, there was a tweet from the grid status staff, which was deleted when they managed to make the GSP work.