Starting Tuesday, 6 May, 2008, all group notices that are older than 14 days will be removed from storage in the database. (Notices were previously held for 31 days.) The reason for this change is to help reduce load on the database. Note: Nearly *every* group that uses notices in Second Life will be effected by this change, which will be ongoing.
Groups will now be limited to 200 notices *per group* each day. Older messages, over the 200th, will be regularly removed from storage in the database. There are about 135 groups we expect will be impacted by this limit. The owner of each of these groups should see a message in-world Tuesday, notifying them of the change.
Server Issue affecting ~1/16 of Residents There is currently an issue affecting roughly 1/16 of residents. Affected residents will not be able to login, and those already inworld will find themselves quite limited in their ability to access inventory. To be safe, all residents should refrain from rezzing valuable or no-copy items or making transactions until the all-clear is given.
In-World Service Interruptions We are experiencing database issues which affects in-world services. Do not conduct transactions until we give an all clear. Search, teleport, rezzing, are all affected.
Some regions are also down and being worked on. We will have these regions up as soon as possible.
Severe network problems [UPDATE 03:55 am PDT] It looks like we have lost connection to our SF network, due to the internet service provider’s problems. Please do not try to rez or buy anything right now, we will keep you updated.
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Our internet service provider seems to have issues resulting in serious packet loss, which will have an impact on all inworld services.
This will affect logins, teleports, inventory and profiles not loading, as well as the rezzing of items.
Logins Closed Temporarily We have closed logins to Second Life while we work on an emergency maintenance issue. We will re-open as soon as possible. The Land Store will also be closed during this time.