Nu Vibez and Roleplay Guide Magazine - June 2014 | Page 58

SLUniverse.com Turns 10: Exclusive Party See’s Oldbies on the Grid Again. - p3

Midnight remembers, "Well, I've been
in SL since 2002, and from the very
b e g i n n i n g , i t h a d a ve r y g h t
community of users. We ini ally pre y
much all knew each other. It's been
fla ering having a lot of long me
users who never even sign into SL
anymore come to the event tonight.
SLU has certainly evolved - it went
from a very small community to
growing into something pre y special,
I think.
The road to this solid community has
not been easy or simple. "It hasn't
been easy - at mes, it's been
incredibly difficult, but I wouldn't
change a thing. I'm proud of what it
has become.” Midnight suggests.

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Talking with the guests, about what
they enjoy and how that has evolved,
one thread seemed to recur. Teeny
Leviathan says, "It is very different now.
Sl was friendly. Now, you have to watch
your back.”
She further remembers, "Back in 2003,
SL was a niche thing. Crea ve people
were a racted to it, and we had a very
friendly, small town sort of community.
People would show off their crea ons,
and you could just go to any random
green dot on the map and not get
kicked out by a security orb."
Asked how SL has changed and how
that happened, she suggests, "I think
the general feel of SL changed when