Archive for the ‘Customer Service’ Category

[NOTICE] PayPal Interface Downtime

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

PayPal has notified us of their intention to perform routine maintenance Thursday, 7 August, between 11pm and midnight Pacific.  During that hour, PayPal-backed LindeX transactions and other purchases will be declined.  

[RESOLVED] Connectivity Issues

Monday, August 4th, 2008

[RESOLVED 08:54 am PDT] We have not gotten any further reports of ruthing or inventory not loading, we are officially declaring this problem dead. Thank you all for your continued patience on this prolonged hunt!

[UPDATE 08:16 am PDT] We do believe the problem has finally been defeated - yes, for real this time! - but we need your help to confirm this.

If you still are ruthed and have trouble accessing your inventory, and clearing your cache and relogging does not solve it, please let our suppor team know.

[REOPENED 07:12 am PDT] Continued reports are showing the problem has not been completely resolved and we are working on tracking down the problem.

[RESOLVED 06:10 am PDT] We’ve only received sporadic reports of continued problems. If the situation has not changed for you please contact support with the time and the specific symptoms in your region.

[UPDATED 04:35 am PDT] We believe the main problem to be fixed, but given the earlier recurrence we will leave this blog open for a bit longer and keep monitoring the situation closely.

If your avatar still won’t load fully and displays as ruthed or a white cloud, please try to clear your cache and relog, that should solve it.

[REOPENED 02:14 am PDT] Unfortunately, the all-clear was premature, and it turns out there are still network issues to be sorted. We will keep you posted.

[ALL CLEAR 1:35] Ops has called the All Clear on the networking issue affecting some residents and regions for the past few hours. If you are still experiencing avatar issues or teleporting problems, etc. please try clearing your cache and relogging.

[UPDATE 0:25]Ops is continuing to work to correct the networking issue affecting some residents. Please continue to monitor this post for updates.

[UPDATE 22:45]Ops is continuing to work to correct the networking issue affecting some residents. In addition to avatar rezzing and teleporting issues, we have received some reports of failing IMs for affected residents. Please monitor this post for updates as they occur.

[9:45PM Pacific] Our technicians are still working to resolve this issue, and this can take more than one hour of investigation. We will keep you posted as soon as we get further information on it.

[8:45PM Pacific] Many residents have reported that their clothing are not loading and they are seeing others as white clouds. There are also some other issues such as some regions down, inventory not loading and search not working. We are aware of these problems and are working to fix these issues as soon as possible.

[8:09PM Pacific] Please be aware that some residents are also experiencing issues with teleporting. We will update this blog as soon as we have more news.

[7:32PM Pacific] SL is experiencing some network difficulties. Some residents have reported problems with logging in. Please avoid conducting inworld transactions and purchasing lindens for the time being. We will update this space with details as soon as we get them.

[RESOLVED] Password Recovery Page Temporarily Out of Service

Thursday, July 10th, 2008

[RESOLVED July 12 2008 09:01 AM PST] The repairs of the password recovery page are done, and it is back to full working order.

[3:37 PM Pacific] Thank you for your patience whilst we continue to investigate.

Our Website’s password recovery page is under repair. We’ll have it functional again as soon as possible. In the meantime, password recovery assistance is available via phone at 866-476-9763. Please note this hotline should only be used for requesting assistance with password recoveries.

Login/In-World Services Unavailable for some Residents

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

[Resolved 1:57 PM Pacific] The issues have been resolved and everything should be back to normal.

[1:30 PM Pacific] We have reports of sporadic unavailability of some services such as some residents not being able to log in and not being able to access inventory. We are aware of the problem and are working to bring these services back online as quickly as possible.

[Resolved] Login issues for some residents.

Tuesday, July 8th, 2008

[Resolved - 6:10pm PDT] - The issues have been resolved and all residents should be able to login as normal.

We are currently experiencing connection issues, mainly for users whose internet connections pass through the UK. This is a known issue with our bandwidth provider and is currently being investigated. Please watch this blog for any further details.

[All-Clear] Login/In-World Services Unavailable for some Residents

Monday, July 7th, 2008

12:12 p.m. PDT We have been given an all clear that our database has recovered. Those affected should have login ability and in-world services restored.

One of our inventory databases is experiencing overload. This can produce issues with rezzing objects and inventory issues. If you are experiencing inventory issues, please hold off conducting transactions until we give an all-clear.

Investigating PayPal Transaction Difficulties

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

A number of residents are experiencing PayPal transaction failures.  We’re investigating and we’ll update when we have additional information.

[RESOLVED] Momentary login interruption

Monday, June 30th, 2008

[2:31 PM Pacific] Logins were momentarily disabled due to database issues.  All is back and logins are re-enabled.

Incomplete registration for some new accounts

Monday, June 30th, 2008

One of our web servers is affecting registration, producing the error message “Your Second Life account could not be created at this time”.  If you are receiving this message, please go to the support page of our website, and submit a support ticket under the heading of “I cannot create an account”.

[All Clear] In-World Service Interruption/ Logins Temporarily Closed

Sunday, June 29th, 2008

All Clear 2:09 p.m. PDT Our databases are working normally and we are giving an all clear for in-world services.

[Update 1:54 p.m. PDT. Login is now open. We will update on In-World services shortly.

Re-opened 1:41 p.m. PDT We are experiencing database overload and are re-opening this issue. In-World Services are affected and we are temporarily restricting login.

Update 1:08 p.m. PDT The databases are working nicely now and we are giving an All Clear for in-world services.

Update 12:50 p.m. Logins are open again. Thank you for your patience. We will monitor the databases before giving a full All Clear on In-World Services.

We are experiencing a high load on our databases. Some in-world services may be affected and logins have been temporarily closed.  We will re-open them as soon as possible. As a precaution please hold off on rezzing no copy items or conducting L$ transactions.