Forum Redesign

The Second Life Web Forums were recently redesigned. It was a major update, removing the mature discussion forum, rant forum, and the "Real World" forum. The scripting forum, which contained over a year of collective scripting, was accidently deleted. According to Linden Lab it was an accident. Probably the biggest change was the elimination of the General Discussion forum.

I am a Macintosh user and only own Macs. When I first read about Second Life in a brief mention in Macworld magazine and heard that a Mac version was in the works, I was overjoyed. I visited the site, signed up for the Mac beta, and explored. What I really liked about the Second Life website was that even before I played, I could read New World Notes and browse the forums. I felt like I reconized and knew some of the players even though I had yet to log on for the first time. Reading the forums let me hear about such places as the Cordova sandbox and the Globe Theater, which was intersting enought to fufill my crave for SL until the beta came out.

The new forums are more confusing and will be less friendly to new and prospective players. I'm a little sad to see the old forums go, but I'll get over it.