Yesterday I had a meeting with Terrence Linden about the upcoming closing of the Teen Grid and I received alot of good feedback in the half an hour that I had. As many know Terrence posted a new blog post about Bringing Teens to Second Life’s Main Grid on Thursday 18th November 2010. Since then there’s been over 500 blog comments on the post and that number is increasing.
Here’s the latest news:
- The date has now been pushed back a few days after 31st December 2010
- Teens will only be able to go to G regions, until they become 18 years old
- Linden Lab engineers are hard at work preparing currently for the Transition
- The TSL website went offline last week officially by Linden Lab
- Everyone will see the teen grid regions and it will be visible (regions will stay where they are)
- Very mixed feedback from Teens and many have been asking questions on how things would be done during TSL office hours
- Terrence Linden has been talking to a lot of lindens on this, across all parts of the organization and has learned a lot about how LL internal systems work, code, policies, etc
- In profiles there will be no way to find out any teens age –> (safety/privacy)
- Terrence pointed out theres’s not enough communication with the landowners on the teen grid
- Linden Lab have noticed the teen grid declining
2011 The Big Change
As many of you know Terrance Linden goal is to make the experience for Teen Grid residents smooth as possible when they come over in early January 2011. Terrance added that this TSL Transition is good in the long run, in the short run it will be choppy and hard. It’s a big shift, a necessary one for the good of the grid and Terrence is excited to see what the 16-17 year old do on the main grid. Terrence thinks it won’t be as big of a change as people think, but it is definitely a change. G regions are 15% of the grid, Terrence wants to do this correctly and Terrence pointed out it is hard reading some of the blog comments because it is a change for people and change is difficult.
What are your views on the TSL Transition at this stage ?
Daniel Voyager 