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

6 minutes ago, Mollymews said:

@AnnetteMeadows and @polysail

LL have recently started a Marketplace cleaning program.  Blog notice here

 

thats awesome! yay!  but still why drive away people from sl when it already seems to be slowing??? and in reply to someone else comment earlier , so noone should comment or protest the banksters on many countries that all of a sudden your food or commodities doubled in price? or when you get 5 snickers bars in a pack instead of 10, then 8, then 6, now 5? people have every right to protest unsound business tactics taking away things they already had and were promised! or to boycott or in case of sl, quit . 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion

and really? (to another comment earlier) how much real space do the 0s and 1s linking to all the groups amount to? ( Twitter “needed just 20 terabytes to back up every tweet that's ever existed… that's about twice the estimated size of the print collection of the Library of Congress.” LINK. “A TB, or terabyte, is about 1.05 million MB. All the data in the American Library of Congress amounts to 15 TB.)

 

[Reducing Group Allowances for basic members could seriously hurt your SL income]

7 hours ago, Mikey Shu said:

Now about the groups:

Without going into my own opinion about that change, there is however a simply solution to this. A solution I have been using myself for years now:
Just create yourself a 2nd avatar and name it "groupavie" or so. Then only keep the most important groups (for store gifts, yadayadaya) on your main account and outsource any other group to that alt avie. You will still get the groupnotes via email from that avie and can then login and check the note itself.

Would it be easier if we just had enough slots on our main avie? Sure. But LL decided we don't, so deal with it. We can't change it, unless you plan on flying to San Fran and storm their RL office. 😄

But at least this is a good, free alternative to circumvent the new group limit and even bring a bit more order to the chaos of your own groups. 😉 I am using this method for years now and I have nothing to complain, it works, it is free and I love it. I actually made myself a full "service avatar". Not only does he have most of my store groups and serves as 2nd person to my own groups (if they're small or new). He is also my bank account through a script and many RP related things, like my radio and pager networks are now outsourced on him, so I can use him as "HUB" for all of my active alts.

You should consider such measures before complaining too hard about something that sucks but is as it is and won't be changed. Stop wasting your time yelling about the change, Linden "TheSinkingShip" Lab doesn't care much anyway. So rather use the time and find ways around it, like I did long ago. 😉

yes if LL wants to be so greedy and lose customers that even free accounts spend so much $ and $L in the economy...supposedly to save server space for groups...meanwhile causing lots of people to create new alts to join group thereby taking up more server space...is just well economic and corporate suicide. the bad part is, mikey that the free group gifts or discounts you might get from store groups wont be transferrable  to your main avatar :((((     

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_aversion

 

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

instead of taking away something that we already had and are use to (42 groups) and making so many people leave slwhen traffic seems to be slowing anyways....heres an idea for LL to help save "resources"! why not delete anything not sold or used or rezzed in sl since before 2007? 2010? omg every time you look on mp is way outdated thiings that im pretty sure noone buys thats just taking space on servers. and with a small program searching uuids im very sure this is completely possible. instead of ruining sl and making so many just get tired of less for more