Linden Lab turning back the clock on the blog

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Way back when, Linden Lab staffers had a bunch of blogs for talking about what they were doing at work and involving Second Life (though most readers just followed the combined blog aggregator that gave them the whole kaboodle). The Lab decided that blog communications were old-hat, and mostly abandoned the blogs, limiting important announcements on the forums, where only registered users could access them. This was considered an unpopular move.

The forums themselves became increasingly unmanageable, however, until -- with approximately 600 active forums users -- the workload for Linden Lab became too much to handle (even with the assistance of volunteer moderators), and they began to shut chunks of the forums down, and instead focused on a single blog with a limited opportunity for people to comment. This was also considered an unpopular move.

Then grid status, problem and outage reports were moved off to their own comment-free blog, in what was widely regarded as an unpopular move. Try to ignore the emerging pattern. We'll get back to that.

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