Hmmmm... was building something and felt a partial disconect in the air so logged off - then couldn't get back in. "Can't connect.' And got a 500 trying to summon the forum, although I could conjure the SL blog and anything else on the web. That was an hour ago and I really should go to bed - hate leaving my things out, though.
Ah - while I was looking on SLU to see if anyone else reported the same thing this was posted on the blog:
"We are aware of difficulties for residents connecting to our website and also in logging in to Second Life at present. Our engineers are aware of this issue and working on it at present. Please accept our apologies for the inconvenience."
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