[So what changed in the Terms of Service?]

2 hours ago, Coffee Pancake said:

Why not, you're doing the same for everyone who isn't getting over this already.

A lot of people are asking some very searching questions at the moment and feeling broadly unwelcome and under-attack in a place they have called home for years.

Yes. Fully gown adults are shedding real tears over all this.

and here the peanut gallery, entirely unaffected, but with an opinion none the less .. wow.. just that...wow
 

 

1 hour ago, Coffee Pancake said:

Oh yes, because you're ever going to give up being a furry .. come on. demanding people surrender self-identification when you wouldn't even consider the same for split second if it was your fluffy hide on line.

remind me to shrug if and when they come for the furries.

I support attacking people who demand to look at naked kids. If your identity you won't give up involves looking at naked kids then I support discrimination against it.

[So what changed in the Terms of Service?]

Wow what a bunch of nutcases brainstorming this intensely on why they have to look at naked kids online

[A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.]

2 minutes ago, Kadah Coba said:

I think we're past the point where we just make a new group system from scratch and migrate over.

Nothing is getting remade ever. The current lindens are stewards, nothing more.

[A brief note on pricing changes, which ran long.]

It's better to pay attention to actions than words

• Move to CDNs, a cost cutting measure
• Hastily make a new linden home area that looks like a turd on the map but it's pretty popular. Didn't convert enough people to premium though I guess.
• Punish free users, the majority of users, and make premium more expensive. At the same time. What kind of desperation is this? Everyone is being punished no matter what they do. Lowering group counts for free users actually punishes creators because most of their group members suddenly have to cull 10 groups.
• The removal of quarterly payment is another subtle fee increase. Monthly works out more expensive, or you have to pay a chunk for yearly.
• Higher withdrawal fee. The economy is the main feature of this game at this point. Why would you disincentivise participation with a fee increase unless you really needed the money.

And it's fee increases for something people have been using for many years too. People have a grim acceptance of the fact the tech behind this game is never going to improve much.
No company ever admits that things are less than fantastic no matter what situation they're in. Most of the time their own employees are kept in the dark too. It would be doubly chaotic for SL if they said things were bad or, god forbid, they were shutting down. People would go insane and start ripping entire inventories of stuff. How it would happen is you would wake up one day and SL would be gone.