OSgrid will fully empty everyone's inventories in March - sh.itjust.works

How fscked up is OSgrid’s asset server? This fscked up. OSgrid will shut down on March 21st. It’ll stay offline for a week (haha, OSgrid and schedules). And when it comes back online, the inventories of all avatars will be empty. Wiped clean. With nothing in them anymore. Seems to be the only feasible way for them to fix their asset server. It’s dragging around too much old and broken content. Now they want to do an “asset reset” and basically delete all assets that aren’t rezzed in-world. This includes everything in everyone’s inventories. Some are frantically trying to create IARs and OARs now. But first of all, big inventories take a long time to be exported to an IAR. Besides, links of any kind cannot be archived. Your outfits that consist of links cannot be rescued. Lastly, these IARs themselves will probably chock-full of broken assets themselves, many of which broke during the last at least two attempts at fixing the asset server. Wherever you’ll upload such an IAR, you’re likely to pump broken assets onto that place’s asset server. At the same time, many OSgrid users are already escaping from the grid. Of course, they’ll need alts on other grids for as long as they can’t use their OSgrid avatars. But I guess they don’t put much faith in OSgrid actually managing to fix the asset server issues, so these new alts will become their mains, and they may abandon their OSgrid avatars altogether. I think it’s fair to mention that the wiping of everyone’s inventories kicked off the final demise of the Metropolis Metaversum in 2019.