Jahman Ochs
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Snickers: the observation is accurate; the metaphor is unfortunately hysterical.
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I am not surprised by this:
http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Inworld/Help-Us-Celebrate-Second-Life-s-9th-Birthday/ba-p/1488731
I am, however, extremely disappointed that my worst expectations for how things were going to play out in Second Life, given Linden Labs' current leadership and the direction indicated by the "Linden SIMS" adventure escapades, have come to pass.
There will be no SL Birthday regions. There will be no coordinated celebration. There will be a destination guide tab for events happening all over the grid - just like there is EVERY FREAKIN' DAY OF THE YEAR. In other words, there will be nothing special about this - because Linden Labs has lost the perspective that we should be celebrating 9 years of creativity TOGETHER, with something UNIQUE.
Instead, we get to celebrate on OUR OWN LAND (wee!) with OUR OWN EVENTS (oh wait...), paid for by OUR OWN TIER (ugh, now I get it...) - that's right, just exactly what we do all the time, they're letting us do it to celebrate Second Life's start to the end of a decade.
Well, it's more than that. It's the end of an era. And I mourn its passing.
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Thanks, looks like it's on my end then. I appreciate the response.
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I'm posting this here first, rather than filing a jira incident, because it's so prone to so many possible causes - but since around 10:45PM PST I have not been getting email from any of my scripted objects that are intended to notify me from my sim. These include both scripts I've written myself and third party objects. I usually get several an hour from the former, and I *always* get my nightly traffic monitor reports from four monitors placed around my mainland region.
Has anyone else noticed the same breakdown in scirpted email?
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For background, see: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-7459 and http://community.secondlife.com/t5/General-Discussion/Traffic-calculation-change/td-p/1235259
Yesterday, we had 132 visitors and 9423 minutes, and the # was 14565.
Day before, we had 176 visitors, 9841 minutes, # was 15584.
Today we have 169 visitors, 9996 minutes, and the number is 11846.
(Note that the # of minutes is as reported by the traffic monitors, which do not overlap the entire sim, so the correlation is not direct to actually minutes for calculation, but rather a ratio. The implication is that the visitors would've had to be within the traffic monitor's range the entire time they visit, which is never the case, hence the higher traffic numbers for the previous two days than the minutes would suggest. I have been tracking these numbers daily for nearly two years.)
I believe the correlation of this change in traffic number to the Wednesday update is too much of a coincidence, given the prior track record of the jira incident related to the original problem, to ignore.
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And the bottom line is this: everybody knows the "All" search yields funky results that are inscrutable. The only way to judge performance of a parcel based on their keywords is through relative traffic #s. Now, if the baseline is going to change, that's fine - but to have it change without any warning is hubris of the highest level. "Let's see what *else* we can do to make the foundation of this system unusable by the core participants" seems to be the driving question at Linden Labs for the past two years.
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This has nothing to do with 'bots - and I have the numbers to prove it. They've totally changed the algorythm by which traffic is calculated, and I can show that change graphically based on statistics I've been collecting for the Pando region for over a year and a half.
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Yesterday, my numbers were around 225 unique visitors and around 11000 cumulative visitor minutes; my traffic number for the parcel was reported at 17569. This is consistent with my records going back over a year for this parcel.
Today, my numbers were around 220 unique visitors and around 11000 cumulative visitor minutes. By my calculations, my traffic number should be somewhere between 16500 and 17000; it is, instead, 11997, a discrepancy of about 30%.
A little investigating reveals that it looks like a similar drop in calculated traffic has occured across the grid. Consistent mainstay Franks Place, usually in the 70k range, is listed as ~50k today. All of the listings in the search categories that I usually monitor are similarly down.
By my analysis, this is not a change in actual visitor/time numbers, but in a change in the way traffic is calculated. Can anyone corroborate, and can Linden Labs explain?
(Update - a jira has been entered: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/SVC-7459?focusedCommentId=295350#comment-295350)
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Yesterday, my numbers were around 225 unique visitors and around 11000 cumulative visitor minutes; my traffic number for the parcel was reported at 17569. This is consistent with my records going back over a year for this parcel.
Today, my numbers were around 220 unique visitors and around 11000 cumulative visitor minutes. By my calculations, my traffic number should be somewhere between 16500 and 17000; it is, instead, 11997, a discrepancy of about 30%.
A little investigating reveals that it looks like a similar drop in calculated traffic has occured across the grid. Consistent mainstay Franks Place, usually in the 70k range, is listed as ~50k today. All of the listings in the search categories that I usually monitor are similarly down.
By my analysis, this is not a change in actual visitor/time numbers, but in a change in the way traffic is calculated. Can anyone corroborate, and can Linden Labs explain?
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As the owner of the G&H Cinema in Pando, I can assure you we have a true media video stream (a custom quicktime stream, not youtube shared media) running 24/7, with a new playbill each week - usually two feature films and some cartoon shorts. Come by and check it out!
(We do also have an arcade, as well as the mentioned bowling alley and paintball/tankwars arena - as well as a carnival amusement park with over 26 rides and attractions - we're one of the best full-sim mainland places to have fun on the grid!)
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http://slurl.com/secondlife/Tenney/205/179/106 and surrounding parcels are up for sale, CHEAP!
We're selling our holdings in Tenney, the sim just to the south of Pando! For L$0.5 per sqm, you can OWN a great parcel next to one of the nicest, best-travelled and innovative regions on the grid!
Parcels range from ~5000 to ~8000 sqm, supporting around 1000-1800 prims. They're all nice and flat, suitable for just about anything.
And did I mention they're next door to Pando? :) One of the funnest regions in SL, with an average of 170 visitors a day spending nearly an hour a visit.
Come check it out, kimosabe!
PS: If these haven't sold by 9/7, they're being abandoned - which means the next time they come up for sale, it will be for L$1/sqm (thanks a heap, Linden Labs) - so buy now and get a bargain!
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@Polenth - As I tried to say in a convoluted way: they are having us celebrate on OUR dime. No expense on their part. How many performers are going to feel ok about doing birthday shows for free (as they've done in the past at the SLB venues) to drive these birthday events? Especially when the traffic will be diluted because of all the simulataneous activity? And we're doing it on land that WE pay for.
No challenge to get this done - no time limits, no schedules, no prim limits, and hell, this time the Adult and gaming will have free rein to draw all the attention they can, eh? Or will there be rules that you can't have SL9B events on Adult sims? And so much for not being about advertising - are the SL9B staff (is there even such a thing?) going to be running around to the event sites enforcing some sort of standards? Or can a gaming sim full of ad boards (or a whoring sim, for that matter) set up an SL9B event and then simply point people at their money-generating stuff (NO DEVIL here! ESCORTS there! Have a happy birthday!)?
Seriously, the more I think about it, the more enraged I become.