Glitches Plague Second Life

 

 

 Second Life invariably has occasional glitches. But February 1 2023 was worse than usual. Numerous sims were offline. Some avatars wouldn't rezz properly or at all. People had trouble logging on. The Lab had been doing some rolling restarts. But it soon realized it had a problem, admitting to outages and script errors on it's Grid Status Report.

 

We are investigating reports of occasional errors upon logging into the viewer as well as reports of slowness or time outs on web pages such as the Marketplace and my.secondlife.com. We are also aware some residents are appearing as a cloud for longer than expected upon logging in. Our engineers are actively trying to alleviate the issue. We apologize for the inconvenience.

 

Some residents would describe their problems on a couple forum threads here and here, "I've been an orange cloud for three hours." Draxtor Despress' Second Life Book Club would have to postpone it's weekly show to Saturday due to the glitches, which showed in his recording. Checking the maps, one friend commented, "I don't think I have ever seen so many sims down at once on the map."

 

On 3:45 PM , the Lab posted that the issues were resolved. But for about an hour after that, I continued to see people having problems with their avatars rezzing. By 6PM, it appeared things had finally cleared up.

 

It;s safe to say this was Second Life's most glitched day in many months. Fortunately, it wasn't as bad as the early days in which it seemed Linden Lab had to shut down the Grid for a few hours every week to "bang on things" until the bugs were fixed.

 

Image Credit: Vicious Hollow, Matoazma Kazyanenko

 

Bixyl Shuftan