The hardware failure in question (multiple drives failing at the same time) was the type of thing that manufacturers and users of redundant storage hardware fear. The fact that it happened during a restripe, when the system was more vulnerable than usual due to the large amounts of data being rearranged, really didn’t help.

To be honest, I think Linden Labs handled it in the best way they could – as testified to by the fact that they managed to get it back up with minimal data loss. I suspect much better-known and larger businesses have run into similar problems (you just don’t get to hear about them…)

I didn’t see any begging or crowing in that blog post. I saw a simple fact posted about reaching 20k, with no “omg yay we rock!” at all. Just sharing a fact with us. And when things got bad, he simply apologized, warned people what to expect, and kept people updated on the fact that Linden Labs was working on things. And based on the time stamps and my own experience in world, the badness lasted only about 1 hour.

Sure, the database suckiness was a pain. Sure they need to fix it. But the blog post about 20k and particularly the one before it about the asset server failure details (which had mostly positive comments) were full of useful information that we all should know about.

Why do you use pejorative and inaccurate terms like begging and crowing? Are you more interested in muckraking than facts?

No company in their right mind would touch this system as a business platform with the reliability they demonstrate…no matter how much their pr flacks and MSM embedded “journalists” and flaky 20 something “Metaverse developers”, “Evangelists” and “Futurists [wtf is that anyway - some wanker who comes up with ideas that someone else has to implement?" persist in trying to suck up to LL by writing constant fluff pieces on it.

The fact that developers manage to sell this platform to clients indicates:
1. no risk analysis on the clients part - indicating gross stupidity. The free media roi wave from first mover advantage [American Apparal were smart] has come and gone, never to return.
2. the developers … ah, well, how can you call yourself a professional when you lie to clients about the true state of the platform you are pitching?

Sure, POC demonstrates the potential and the 3d sns/web will happen eventually, but this particular platform is a buggy mess of hacked together shite.

imo it’s not entirely ll’s fault per se. They were doing just fine up until earlier this year..small user base, growing slowly, performance vs stability ok. Then the Vulture Capitalists probably played their card to force the company to go into user acquisition phase to scale it up so they could do the quick flip, without bothering to listen to anyone who happened to say “um, sorry, we are NOT ready for that growth curve yet”.

Blowback, I think it’s called.

We’re making progress here folks!

Pop a few of those pills, Spankubux, and you’ll be “journalisming” all over your monitor every time you see a Post 6 layout and/or an article by me.

A real newspaper would have noted the underlying causes (bad hardware) once the reason for the failures became clear. But you circus clowns never miss a chance to shit out your agenda onto the pages of this jokeless punchline you call a newspaper.