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Originally Posted by Brenda Connolly  The forum not withstanding, the entire Website is afflicted with this 503 nonsense. Checking account info, buying Lindens, i would imagine just signing up is a problem. SL being a Webbased product, t would seem to me that the website is the primary portal, the face to that product. there has been almost total silence from LL on this. |
Oh Lord, I didn't even think of that! I mean, buying Lindens, signing up, etc.
I was only thinking about it regarding checking my transactions page.
And I never can decide - do they not fix it because they CAN'T, or because no one has much bothered to try yet?
I mean, you know how LL is. Somebody has to want to do it first; no one is allowed to give another person orders.
(Maybe if they HAD been allowed to give orders, we would never have come to this pass regarding the forums in the first place - they would have been updated and kept abreast of the technology all along.)
But if you have been in
SL for long, you know perfectly well that embarrassing situations that you expect them to fix - like the USB code, or whatever that's called - actually never will, and they actually have no intention of fixing it. (They finally said as much, I believe.)
Now surely, something like this - especially if it affecting people's ability to buy Lindens! - WILL have some people working to fix it, and pronto.
On the other hand, this is LL we're talking about . . .
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And from what Ben said - which is what we all always think, "Well, until something better comes along" - well, I have had a thought about that.
It is quite possible that nothing better ever WILL come along. (And certainly possiblethat nothing will come along that allows us to make what we want and sell it.)
Or will be quite some TIME before coming along.
But - that doesn't mean
SL can't fail, ANYWAY.
Not that I expect it to.
But I mean, think of this:
SL could just lose members, fail, and become about as meaningful as TSO is today, or go away entirely.
Without ANY real competition coming along.
Just on its own.
So:
(1) If something similar and better came along, yes, people would leave
SL by the droves.
(2) But people could still leave
SL by the droves even if nothing better EVER came along.
Again, I don't think that will happen; I'm just pointing out that it is possible to simply fade away on its own, competition or not.
EDIT: I see Brenda just touched on this idea.
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