AjaxLife down, donation refunds available

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AjaxLife has been down for the last couple of weeks due to Linden Lab’s consistent failure to make the Teen Grid signups work. Please all go vote on JIRA WEB-734, which I would link to, but WordPress doesn’t seem to like me much today.

As for those of you who have donated, you do have some valid cause to be irritated. There has been one vocal complaint, and I imagine that there are more who don’t feel strongly enough to actually publicly comment on the issue, but none-the-less feel somewhat put out. Whilst I would remind you that AjaxLife has been costing $120-130/month for much longer than people have been paying, and that it will return in future (and donations will carry forward), I understand that it is not running now. As such, in return for your support, I will be happy to refund any donations you have made since November 11th (31 days before AjaxLife was closed, which is the length of time between the spending of donations).  If you would like to request such a refund, please email me at katharine@kathar.in with the email address from which you sent your donation, and I will make arrangements for your money to be returned ASAP.

I do hope that this episode has not impacted on any of those who may have intended to use AjaxLife and/or donate towards its upkeep in future. In the meantime, I will point to MovableLife (https://movablelife.net) as a possible alternative – whilst far buggier than AjaxLife, it has the significant advantage of actually being up.

8 Responses to “AjaxLife down, donation refunds available”

  1. Remamian Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 8:50 pm

    \o/ first comment!!! But seriously LL are buttheads, I’m on the maingrid and completly concurr with you!! Maybe the people can understand your frustration with LL in compaired to there frustration with Ajax being down. I for one salute you and wait patiently on my iPhone at work for LL to screw in the lightbulb so to speek

  2. Remamian Says:
    December 23rd, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    On a side note:: moovablecrap doesn’t work well on iPhone kthxbai

  3. Peter Stindberg Says:
    December 24th, 2008 at 11:49 am

    I am not a regular AjaxLife user, but the few times I used it it helped me out of an emergency when I had to contact someone or deliver an inventory item. I was shocked to hear how much it cost you each month. I have no RL funds available, otherwise I had contributed as well. I don’t think your protest will make LL solve anything, and I doubt shutting AjaxLife down was the right thing to do – but I respect it as the decision you made, and I look forward to the day it gets reopened.

  4. Iain Etchegaray Says:
    December 26th, 2008 at 2:07 am

    I sincerely hope that the overwhelming majority of your donors do the right thing and don’t request a refund. Your hard work is appreciated by many, and the investment you’ve made in terms of money spent creating something enjoyed by so many should be praised with gratitude.

  5. Therese Tammas Says:
    December 28th, 2008 at 9:07 pm

    :( HUG

  6. Scott Says:
    December 29th, 2008 at 10:57 pm

    I salute your attempt to get LL to move and fix the Teen SL area, but in the long run, this may undercut what is a viable product for you, as people will be looking for other options—or in some cases, creating other options.

    Punishing those who use Ajaxlife for something stupid LL is doing just seems like shooting the dog for seeing the fox steal chickens from the hen house.

  7. Katharine Berry Says:
    December 29th, 2008 at 11:04 pm

    A “viable product” is probably not quite the right wording – my current balance from running AjaxLife is measured in negative hundreds of US dollar (roughly US$-1000, actually).

    I’d note that creating their own is not actually that hard – I’ve given you all a head start.

    That said, I am being pressured to launch it again. Since nobody actually tried to reclaim their donation (the person who complained never did email me, and since the email address doesn’t match anyone who donated, I can’t really do anything about it), I may well decide to launch it again at the beginning of next year anyway. (Parental pressure is a significant force >.>)

  8. Hippyjim Says:
    January 5th, 2009 at 6:26 pm

    Just saw with absolute horror the problems with signing up for the TG. While I don’t blame ya for wanting to do *something* I suspect that taking Ajaxlife down will not even make a dent on LL.

    Perhaps adding something to Ajaxlife asking for votes on the bug you posted (I added mine) might help. With the numbers of people you have using Ajaxlife, a sudden spike in votes on the Jira might wake someone up at LL.

    Either way, good luck, keep up the good work, and Thankyou thankyou thankyou for what you’ve done so far.

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