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You're welcome. And thank you all there, you performed great today, fixing that nasty issue. :matte-motes-smitten:

There is a dot at the end of that URL, that's why Caleb's link doesn't work. :matte-motes-tongue:

Yes, it doesn't sound like a definitive solution, either, but at least it is allowing people logging in.

It is fixed. For more info, please see the JIRA.

Please keep watching the JIRA at https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-6735 because further updates will be shown there (and there are some, already.)

Thank you, Sonya. Have you tried removing the payment info from your main account? After I did that, I logged in fine, and as soon as I re-added payment info, couldn't again. The same seems to happen for other people comenting my JIRA.

FYI: the JIRA is at https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-6735 and it is public.

Her you go, Perrie: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-6735 (just made it public)

JIRA filed.

An update: I contacted Live Chat Support again because my ISP has no clue about what to look for, and this time I was told something different: "We are getting many reports of this same error today. We are looking into this for several residents. I am sure we can get this resolved for you very soon. I will create a support ticket for you here." According to what I was told the first time by the Support representative, the reason why I can login with my alt account and not with my main one is that each account uses a different route. Please check my thread in this forum and read what Monty Linden wrote there. Following his advice, I already filed a JIRA.

Thank you, Monty, I shall do that. In fact, I've been experiencing different kinds of inventory issues since last Christmas. The worst of them seem to have stopped a bit more than one month ago, but many times the viewer keeps fetching and seems to be stuck doing so, especially after unpacking anything. My inventory in my main account is a bit under 35,000 items, and the one of my alt account is quite small, yes. Anyway, I contacted Live Support twice, and while on the first time I was told to talk to my ISP, the second time (I asked what to tell to my ISP because they have no clue about what to look for) I was told "We are getting many reports of this same error today. We are looking into this for several residents." Nevertheless, I shall file a JIRA.

I logged into Live Chat Support and the representative recommended that I would talk to my ISP.

Oh, you too... I just posted in this forum about it. :matte-motes-sour:

In the last few days, I started getting a login error: "Login failed. Could not connect to a simulator." After a couple attempts, and changing the region where I try to login, it finally works. But not now — I've been trying repeatedly and it won't work at all. I can login with my alt account, though. This issue seems to happen only when there are more than 40,000 people inworld, and it is affecting my main account only, no matter which viewer I use (Firestorm, Singularity or the official viewer.) I'm using Google public DNS, so I suppose the problem isn't there. Any ideas? Thanks.

Something somehow similar happened to me weeks ago, and it seems that you have a bad DNS just like I did. Try using Google public DNS servers instead of your ISP's. Here's how you can set your system to use them: https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/docs/using

And you know this how exactly? You don't, specualtion seems to be your way of life. It is obvious and not speculation at all, or else you wouldn't have asked "What time would have been better?" since I wrote my point of view on the timing several times on previous posts in this thread. What is your problem, anyway? And talking about a way of life... Do you have one? Or you're just a "yes miss"?

I don't think it is Firestorm. I use it and spend quite some time at my building platform placed at 3500 m altitude with much less lag than I have on the ground — as it should be. A few questions: 1. is your rental in mainland or at a private region? 2. how high is your house now? 3. are there any skydomes nearby? One thing you may want to try is rezzing a building on the ground and spend some time there to see how it goes. P.S. Just like Tarina, my parcel is in mainland and the only issues in the region were caused by a Pathfinding bug first — fixed about one year ago — and later by some griefing objects at another parcel that were affecting the whole region

Of course it's up to you, but what have you got to lose if you do join? Amethyst said it all here, in a very good post. So read her well and think about it. Also, please always take everything you read in forums with a grain of salt. While some people try to discuss matters in a honest way, some other people just want to make noise for whatever reason. And more: most people in SL don't even care about the forums unless they have some problem they need help with.

What time would have been better? The time when there is/will be a technological plan they can present to people and not just a Linden Lab business one. What the CEO did was creating uncertainty, which is understandable because he, himself, is not certain about the technological solutions — thus he should have kept his mouth shut about it all until he could provide some concrete answers and not just some vague ideas. But of course you didn't read any of the other posts I dropped to this thread... Which is typical, somehow. Could of, should have, maybe, possibly, perhaps, all speculative. Yep, and that includes many of the CEO words about it — pure speculation. FYI: I spend many hours inworld meeting and talking to a lot of different people, rather than reading forums — some of those people are excited about the news but also fearful, but most are only fearful. A new platform sure is good news, but only and if I know what it is going to be like. "Better" is just a word and means nothing concrete by itself.

Judging by another thread, it seems that the runours are having an effect - one person's marketplace sales down to 1 in the day when it's normally ~35, and another person losing 80 tenants since Monday. Those may coincidence or they may be caused by unfounded rumours - people believing that something is going to happen that isn't going to happen. It it's the latter, then I believe it will settle down as people in general get to understand what's happening, and that there will be no changes for at least 2 years. It is too early to know. A few days of low sales mean nothing concrete. I did learn one thing from a post by Ebbe. He said that some stuff will be able to go over to SL2. My stated opinions about buyers and sellers were based on if no stuff can go over. So it's better than I was thinking. He doesn't yet know what will go across but at least some stuff will. Of course he doesn't know, or else he would have it announced. He's just speculating like everyone else... OK, not like everyone else, his speculations are at a different level and start from a different insight on it all, but they still are speculations, and that's exactly where I believe he went wrong — he should have kept his mouth shut until he'd have something concrete to tell the world... At the very least, something more than "it will be better." There's a saying in my native language that goes like this: "bitches in a hurry [female dogs] give birth to blind puppies" (not sure if that makes any sense for you, but it's the best translation I can do.) I never took a single cent out of SL, nor have I ever intended to. The few L$ I ever made in SL — mostly from tips at my bistro — were spent in SL, improving the environment in my parcel as much as my prim limits allow. And I even plan getting some more land, if a parcel contiguous to mine becomes vacant (the whole sim is taken.) We'll have to agree to disagree about whether or not now was a good time to announce SL2 Yep. :matte-motes-smitten: And, for me, the timing was only wrong because the CEO had nothing concrete to say.

If our political participation would begin and end on elections day, you know what would happen, don't you? We can — and should — express our opinions and demonstrate, peacefully but firmly. And there is always something we can do about what we believe is wrong... In the present case, if I'd want to go to an extreme, I would advise everyone I know to stop putting money into SL... Which I won't — I'll renew my annual premium membership and keep my small parcel in mainland, unless something dramatic happens. But I won't be buying anything else. Yes, you got a good point there, about merchants. Still, as you know, many of them have shops inworld and pay the correspondent tier. What if they close and stop paying? Two years is a long time and a lot of money to pay the tier without having a substantial income. Your opinion is different than mine in quite a few things because your perspective is different, and that's healthy. But nothing you can say makes me believe that what Mr. Altberg just did wasn't one of the dumbest moves in the recent business history. Was he just being honest? I don't know, but there's nothing more stupid than having good intentions screwing it all up. Mr. Altberg opened Pandora's box and it's only fair that he has now to deal with the demons.

Sorry, it is your money and none of my business what you do with it, but I tend to agree with Perrie. I will renew my premium account in September and will keep my 2048 sqm parcel... I may even buy another small parcel that eventually becomes vacant in the region, if it is contiguous to the one I have, and see how it all goes. But yes, I won't be buying any more products that may or may not become obsolete — I have too many in my inventory, already.

I'd leave LL's business matters to LL. They know far more about what they're doing than any of us do. Sorry, Phil, that's the exact same attitude as leaving politics to politicians because "they know far more about what they're doing than any of us do." Well, I don't, if that has some impact in my life. But, of course, you and I see and feel Second Life in a much different way... If SL2 is anything like SL, then creators will be creating there, so its economy should flourish. Yes, I'm hoping that and also that some — or most of them — provide free updates to the products we purchased in "SL1" and I know that creators/merchants will go where the market is, unless they are so discouraged by the treatment — and losses — they previously had that they just drop that business and move to something else. The economy only becomes a problem if it affects LL to the point of not being able to continue That's exactly what worries me some. If I'm in SL and not in any other grid — nor I intend to — there must be a reason. No more virtual life for me after this one, I can assure you. Which, maybe, isn't a bad thing...

Don't forget, the economy is about buyers, not creators. You're partially right, but don't YOU forget that buyers only buy if someone creates stuff to be bought. And yes, as a buyer, from now on, I won't be buying anything else that can or cannot be ported — we just don't know, all we know is that it's going to be better... Supposedly. When someone talks about a product and all they can say about it is that it will better, that doesn't benefit the exist product nor the one that may be coming out someday... or may not. Certainly, it doesn't make the company's image any good, nor makes the sales shoot up. That was a totally wrong business decision — since there isn't much more they can say than "it will be better" — no matter if it was a slip or something deliberate. Mr. Altberg can say whatever he wants now, but the damage is done. I hope I'm wrong, though...

If it was a deliberate action, then it clearly shows that Mr. Altberg's reality belongs to a totally different universe than the one that puts money into his pockets — which is even worse, coming from a CEO. The timing was deeply wrong. He may have shot to death an economy that took years to be built and thrive, the very same economy that could help financing the new platform — I doubt it will happen now, due to his poor timing choice.