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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.
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