It’s the equivalent of a city’s mobile phone network going down – the ‘Search Places’ functionality remains dysfunctional in SL.

Taking a positive slant to an otherwise frustrating issue, let’s look at the mobile phone analogy a little further. With no phone coverage, you actually have to talk to people a little more – admittedly they may be people you’d prefer to only intereact with via a digital signal, but the process of actually talking to them face-to-face may be character building. Hell, your in-world neighbour may be your future spouse and you’ve never noticed them previously because you’ve been off searching for the latest communal hotspot. Between the teleport issues and search issues, Linden may actually be making the world a happier place.

See – I’m an optimist.

The past couple of days have seen near continuous issues for Second Life. At time of writing, there’d been yet another update from Linden on the problems. Over the past twelve hours there’s been consistently high numbers of people logged in, coinciding with the US weekend load, which can’t be be helping matters.

On the positive side – disappearing Linden Dollar balances, disappearing water and other issues are not tending to create ongoing problems. I had a zero Linden balance on one login which was remedied the next login – similar to older issues in the same vein.

Linden Labs have released the much awaited update to SL and the initial response has been… well… a lot of queuing to actually get back in. Linden are asking people to wait in queue and eventually they’ll get in. Another example of SL and the real world merging!

Any reports of usability of 1.1.3 gratefully accepted.