Nu Vibez and Roleplay Guide Magazine - June 2014 | Page 57

SLUniverse.com Turns 10: Exclusive Party See’s Oldbies on the Grid Again. - p2

SLUniverse.com
Turns 10
Exclusive Birthday Party
see’s the “Oldbies” return
for a fun hoo-rah!
wri en by Lana Gossimer
images by Filipa Thespian
You know the old saying about things
“staying in Vegas”? That may be true
some places, but its most definitely
not true of Second Life. Besides the
Linden Lab web sites, there are blogs,
feeds, Twi er and Plurk communi es,
and photo sharing sites such as Flickr
and KOINUP. No one knows how many
or who or what
content, other
than Second Liferelated. You might
say the Second Life
outside Second Life is bigger in some
ways.
One of the first, one of the biggest
communi es outside SL is SLUniverse,
founded by Cris ano Midnight.
Midnight says "SLU started out as just a
small alterna ve forum to the main SL
fo r u m s , b u t g re w i n to a h u g e

community site over the past 10 years I think it is now the largest third-party
SL-related site”
A few numbers from the SLU site: 1.9
million posts, 86,000 threads by
31,000 members. So when the 10 year
anniversary was coming up, Midnight
and others talked about what to do.
Midnight, "This event is actually a
follow up to a prom event I had for
Munchflower Zaius in 2011. We were
talking about it the other day, and
before I knew what happened, we had
a 2 day SLU 10th Anniversary Prom
event happening. It's kind of
overwhelming - so many people
helped to put this together - the venue,
the decora ons, the music.”
With 10 years of
history, many of the
members are well
known for what
they have done and accomplished in
SL. A theme emerged at the party,
“return of the oldbie.” Many of the
forum members connect with SL not
by logging in, but by cha ng, pos ng,
commen ng to long me friends using
the SLU forums. The forums have
become the medium to bind people
into community, as SL once did.
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