Pixel Scoop

Urgh. As I write this, my avatar is stuck on a sandbox sim with no other avatars unable to teleport as a result of the problems Second Life™ is having with teleporting (again). Of all the places on which I could be stuck, I choose a blank region attached to NOTHING. I therefore cannot even fly anywhere. And of course, the status page is its usual ‘informative’ self. Allow me to copy and paste their reports on the matter so far (it boosts my word count, you see).

“[UPDATE 2:54 pm Pacific] Unfortunately this issue is taking longer than expected to resolve. However, teleport success is improving, and we’re hoping to resolve this as soon as possible.

[UPDATE PENDING 1:54 pm Pacific] We’re about fifteen minutes way from having updated information.

[UPDATE 12:52 pm Pacific] We are still working on these issues, and we appreciate your patience.

[UPDATE 11:42 am Pacific] Logins are preforming normally. Network issues are still impacting teleport attempts and causing avatar clouding and difficulties crossing region borders. Two inventory servers are resynchronizing. Please avoid in world transactions with valuable (no-copy) assets until we give an ALL CLEAR. We’re escalating our network difficulties to our provider, and we’ll keep you posted.

[UPDATE 10:57 am Pacific] We are still working to bring the broken VPN back. If you experience loading issues after login, like your avatar appearing as the white cloud, please try to login to a different region.

Due to a problem with our network, Residents migth experience a slightly decreased teleport success rate at the moment, and logins will also be affected. We are aware of this and our Ops team is already working to fix it.”

All that was taken from http://status.secondlifegrid.net the home of bad news.

So, four hours so far and still no joy. Interesting, isn’t it, how they leave about an hour between every post. This is especially interesting between 1.54 and 2.54, after telling us at 1.54 they were ‘about fifteen minutes’ from having information. You know, that word ‘about’ gets people out of a lot of bother. Basically, what the 1.54 post should have said is this:-

[STILL MESSED UP 1.54PM PACIFIC] My boss made me come and write something cos it’s been an hour since we wrote anything on the matter and people are saying nasty things in the forums about us. It hurts, you know, all the name calling. Anyway, I don’t have any information. He said tell you all we’ll know something in the next four months or so. From then it should only take another year to rectify. You know, teleporting isn’t all that important anyway. Just LOOK at how pretty the sky and water is now!!

Anyway, that’s my opinion. I will get back to harrassing people I hardly ever speak to in IM just for something to do. (For the record, yes I have relogged many times and I even set my login location to home…and it still brought me back to this sandbox in the middle of nowhere with no civilisation). If it continues like this, I might have to go play real life.