OpenSim Traffic on the Uptake?

Madi Perth

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Over the years I've been in and out of OpenSim grids, even the "popular" ones. One thing that seems be common back then was the emptiness compared to SL. That doesn't seem to be the case now. I've noticed a huge uptake in OS traffic since the new TOS came down. Am I the only one noticing this or does this seem to be something trending?
 

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I wonder if some of it is people who had performance drops from the PBR update
 
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That could also be a reason that I didn't think about. I was just talking to the owner of the estate I help manage that she has noticed a drop in user participation in SL over the past few month. Almost 10% decrease in participation. We both noticed that the drop started to happen about the same time as the TOS, but that would also be about the time PBR went mainstream.

But a uptake in OpenSim with a down take in SL. More than just a coincident I think.
 

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What did they do this time to the TOS to make people want to leave?
 

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What did they do this time to the TOS to make people want to leave?
Made it so that child avatars can't go to Adult rated sims at all and can't hang out at those family beaches - or anywhere - in the nude. Child avatars MUST wear a modestly layer at all times to cover private parts. Basically the type of things most people would have thought were already against the rules if they'd not read them.
 

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If there "is" an uptake, it's not the TOS. TOS changes have never had much influence at all on SL usage. If anything it's the usual seasonal thing, oldbies know that SL and opensim get busier starting in the fall.
 
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Talking to people on OS, it does have some to do with the new child avatar rules but not the nudity part of it or the adult sims. Some of them felt they were being singled out as second-class citizens and decided they have had enough. The prevailing thought is that second life is trying to get rid of child avatars so they just moving on. Not all of them are child avatars ether. There is a lot that don't like the implications that was brought up with the new privacy policy that seems to be in the works. That line that Kieria Linden dropped about proactive moderation really raised some eyebrows. Besides a great many grids don't' allow child avatars, period so there is more to it than just the child av policies at play here.

Economics are playing parts of it too. Some of them left SL because of its high cost and opensims are cheaper, much cheaper in some cases.

Some furries are concerned that after SL rids the grid of child avatars they are next on the list.

I'm now talking to some grid owners and they are saying there has been a mass exodus from SL.
 
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Made it so that child avatars can't go to Adult rated sims at all and can't hang out at those family beaches - or anywhere - in the nude. Child avatars MUST wear a modestly layer at all times to cover private parts. Basically the type of things most people would have thought were already against the rules if they'd not read them.
They should have done that a long time ago.
 
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