Grumpity Linden

i love this thread

Ew, why would you put olives on top of caviar?

oh wait. perhaps lindens do exist. and a colorful bunch too!

There's no such thing as lindens, there's no such thing as lindens ....

That's correct, Natacha!

Taxes and VAT are only charged on fiat currency (USD) transactions.

Our main goal here is to ensure that the most popular vendor system in SL continues smooth and stable operations, and that we're able to better integrate with it with new product offerings once it's brought in-house.

Shiny new-ER resident! Yes, I'd love to chat.

This is pretty unofficial, but I'd like to chat to a few people who've joined SL in the last 3-4 years or less. It's pretty impressive and telling, that by SL standards 3-4 years is new, but there you have it. We're working on a more formal survey, but our chat would help us shape those questions. If you're open to talk, please drop me a line IW or here. Thanks!

Hey all! Check out the complete lack of annoying tooltip in search! You can still bring it up if you click on "Search Tips" and it will have a lovely x to close it in the corner. Thank you for your patience!

We have a fix for this super annoying tooltip thing going out next week. Sorry for the long wait on it.

Don't take this as an official endorsement, but Speedlight.io does do a lot of the things you're talking about for mobile. It's on _my_ phone. We have not abandoned our mobile plans. We just don't have anything we can share right this minute. But it's very much an active direction for us.

Event Regions as a product are certainly not limited to actually running events. They can be used to host Roleplaying Regions or any other purpose our residents desire!

Hiya! I know the setup cost is confusing the way we do it. It's actually only $100 on top of the monthly fee - so it's $100+1st months rent to get it set up after the introductory pricing period.

I think Grumpity Grumpypants has a nice ring to it... what do you say?

Hi! We're having a less than awesome Grid roll day, you seem to have noticed. /me ducks. We're not going to go into much detail while we're still picking up the pieces, but we'll do our best to share as much as possible once we've recovered and can put together a postmortem for this outage. thanks!

yeah, exactly like that! that timing worked out funny. the left hand types faster than the right hand or somesuch.

Loving this thread! We're going to publish a more detailed explanation of the work we've done and the improvements you're seeing soon. Spoiler alert: it's not a mistake in the metrics!

There is no basis for this rumor. We have no intention to bring about the end of Second Life. Or group notices.

Hiya! It's like we said in the message: We've decided to pause development on this branch, but we are working on a new direction for mobile, and think it will be exciting news. This Linden, for one, is really looking forward to being able to talk about it.

PSssst... you know what else will retire? His bear. Don't miss that opportunity... just saying. ❤️

It's definitely for realz true: no VAT on annual membership fees. There are no changes to UK VAT charges, but we will update the language to Brexit it out of the who-gets-charged-what descriptions. Thanks for the nudge!

spray can is never far...

Second Life Server: Version 2021-01-08.554824 (No release notes available currently) Scheduled Friday 2021-01-08 12:00-16:00 PST Second Life RC: Version 2021-01-08.554824 (No release notes available currently) Scheduled Friday 2021-01-08 9:45-12:00 PST On Region Restarts: We're restarting the grid due to a recent outage with our service provider (AWS). We don't anticipate this being a regular occurrence, and have engineers actively working to develop solutions to ensure that grid rolls will not be required when we encounter situations like this in the future.

Could you try clearing your browser cache and cookies and see if that fixes the login issues for you? If that fails, please try rebooting your computer altogether. These issues seem to affect only some (sizable) subset of residents, and we're working on figuring out why. Thanks! If one of these suggestions helps, please comment here to let me know!