Sardonyx Linden released a blog post today explaining why a lot of shit in SL will continue being broken, despite the usual outrage at LL’s services and falling resident retention rates.  Allow me to translate some of the bullshit this man seems to be spewing from all orifaces.

Linden Lab, according to Sardonyx, has evaluated a metric fuckton of IM alternatives in order to attempt to fix IMs and group chat.  They tried Jabber, an open-source application for voice and text messaging between users.  However, even though it would fix a lot of shit, they deemed it was too “immature” to implement.  In other words, Linden Labs is lazy and won’t change a bunch of shit to fix a lot more shit.  Hell, it’s simple to fix:  Fire all the fucking retarded coders currently at the lab,throw away the corporate coding bible, hire a bunch of people who know what they’re doing AND LET THEM THINK OUT OF THE BOX, and start getting down to business instead of fucking around on the grid like a bunch of stupid kids.

In addition, LL is using their database server as a file server (for assets), which is a major no-no, as database servers are horribly inefficient for file storage, as we now see.  A easy way to fix this:  Implement lighttpd, which Google uses for serving stuff on Youtube, across multiple servers.  You can use PHP-based authentication checks using pre-shared tokens if you need to, but nothing else is needed.  You can run them behind a lighttpd front-end webserver to balance the load if required.  Lighttpd is VERY scalable, too, so don’t whine about scalability.  In addition, instead of downloading one asset at a time, one could potentially download 3 or 4 at a time through this system, and asynchronously.

Linden Lab can’t run a production grid, and we are now are now seeing the effects of this lack of knowledge.  If they cannot pull their shit together, then we are going to see Linden Lab quietly go bankrupt within the next year.  I guarantee it.