RSS SL

1. Is it time to start talking about how to manage the decline?

   It is plenty, it's just with the current RL economics I was expecting a bigger drop. It's more about personality than anything. To actually quit they have to burn the bridges, leaving one means they are being pulled back. I know/knew two creators who've left completely like that, and one who closed their store and started over on a new account to just enjoy SL. Normally, yeah, there's absolutely no reason to do so, little pocket money didn't hurt anyone, be it SL or RL.

2. We need advertising campaigns on television for the Second Life

3. Is it time to start talking about how to manage the decline?

   This confuses me too .. even if a store isn't doing well, why turn off a machine that prints money. Just let it run and come back later to collect.

4. Is it time to start talking about how to manage the decline?

   I know very well how it works and how that's different from SL. I know because I did the research to see what would be needed to add opensim support to Catznip. OpenSim falls flat on it's ass about 5 seconds after 100 of us show up at once. Give it an hour with 10,000 of us banging on the door and it's dead, staying dead, and wont be back without significant work and a great pile of money. OpenSim has no latent infrastructure. There is no capacity sitting idle waiting for more than a handful of users, individuals hosting dozens of regions on ewaste tier machines behind domestic ISP home routers. SL goes dark and we DDoS OpenSim within minutes just by showing up. It doesn't even get to show off the lack of economy, endless ripped content and that one thing that will get you insta-banned from SL. 🔥🔥🔥Game Over🔥🔥🔥

5. SLua and Whither LSL?

   What Linden Lab failed to do with this post is to explain what their long-term objective is. Yes, it's only in beta. Yes, it's only something being tested, still being debugged, and they even helpfully warn you to not put products on the Marketplace yet to avoid unhappy customers! But, what's the road map? SLua will live happily alongside LSL forever? LSL will eventually be deprecated? SLua will eventually replace LSL and this will be "endlessly double-plus good"? All old items made in LSL will stop working? If you bought something years ago on no-mod where you can't see the script or replace the script, are you now SOL because the item will simply stop working? I'm sure as per usual if old things are made obsolete there will only be artificially-induced glee and brow-beating of anyone who complains -- as was the case with version 2.0's onset, as was the case with the move from sculpty to mesh, as was the case with PBR. This could potentially be worse, but I don't know what the plan is... Because they don't say. And that just seems irresponsible. And here I think *the Lindens* need to speak to the issue of the eventual retirement of LSL and not everyone who has some notion about it that may not be accurate.