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Second Life official forums to be replaced Tuesday
Linden Lab is in the throes of closing the official Second Life forums and is creating alternative discussion spaces in its Clearspace blog/forum hybrid. According to previous figures from Linden Lab staff, fewer than 700 of 18.1 million registered Second Life accounts ever participated in the official forums provided by the Lab. The partial closure of many of the most heavily trafficked areas of those forums when Lab announcements were migrated back out to the blog in 2006 did little to boost participation in the official forums. The official vbulletin-based forums "did not scale" according to Linden Lab and were difficult to maintain, even for such modest usage levels as they experienced.
Linden Lab launches a bunch of blogs
After a comparatively quiet period for communications, Linden Lab has relaunched the blog -- or blogs, in this case (we count seven blogs altogether, so far), presenting us with more talk than we've seen from the Lab in quite some time. The new blogs (migrated now from Wordpress to Jive's Clearspace) certainly seems to have that 2005 feel that came with the original Linden blogs, only with more polish. The new blogs are Features, Press, Land (and sea), Technology, Eureka (an inworld showcase), Working Inworld, and Community. Only a very few All of the posts [thanks Yoz!] from the old blog have been migrated to the new system. We're not aware of any especial comment limits, but a moderation policy has been announced as a part of the package, and commenters must log in with their Second Life account credentials before commenting. Overall, at present it is a bit like a new series premiere. It's full of introductions and setup, but at this stage it is a little too early to tell how it is all going to work out in the longer term. Are you a part of the most widely-known collaborative virtual environment or keeping a close eye on it? Massively's Second Life coverage keeps you in the loop.
