Message to Christin70 / Spygirl / Anna70 and associated accounts
The relationships you’ve lost in the past were not caused by us or by anyone here. The same behavior you are showing now is the reason those relationships ended. Instead of repeating the same cycle, it would be healthier to step back, reflect, and start fresh.

You continue to speak in ways that create conflict, misunderstandings, and unnecessary drama. When real friendship is offered to you, you push it away with the same patterns. That is not something we can fix for you.

Any grid that allows you in will eventually see the same behavior, because the moment you become upset, you create confusion and accusations that have no basis in reality. That is why we are choosing to protect our community and set a clear boundary.

You are not welcome here anymore. This decision is final.

♬ WHO Rogue Galaxy
♬ WHAT LIVE
♬ WHEN 1:PM OST - 4:PM EST - 5:PM AT
♬ WHERE ROCKING SANDS
♬ RIDE: hop://grid.wolfterritories.org:8002/Abraham%20Entertainmen...

Freitag 1.5.2026
Rock-House
mit DJ Anachron

Beginn 20:00 Uhr

Heraus zum 1. Mai*
*Programm kann datumsbedingt linke Propaganda enthalten

Ende ca. 22:00
Hypergrid : dorenas-world.de:8002:Nihilon
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Friday, May 1, 2026
Rock-House
with DJ Anachron

Starts at 8:00 PM

Out for May Day*

*Due to the date, the program may contain left-wing propaganda.

Ends around 10:00 PM
Hypergrid: dorenas-world.de:8002:Nihilon

CHAT IS COMING
(Just not here. Discord to the rescue!)

People who like to chat will soon have an option to do that on a Discord server cleverly named "What Are You Looking For".

It will, of course, have a channel for posting your requests and replies. It will ALSO have a CHAT, and other text, channels.

I'm looking for long-term members who have a good understanding of what this OSW group is intended to do, and who also have experience setting up a Discord server. What safety and moderation bots would be good to have? What text channels will be useful? For example, separate channels for types of items, like Avatar Components, Clothing, Landscaping, Tools & Scripts,? A pinned post of recommended shops for each kind of item?

I am putting together a team of people who will be closely involved in setting up the server. We will keep you informed via comments to this post, and we will consider your suggestions closely.

Is this a cool idea, or is this a cool idea?

The OSW group will continue to exist, where people will need to exercise self-restraint about chatting.

The E Grid will be offline till Friday as we calibrate new additions and regions.

As you may have seen in Rentals here we now offer Varregions (and Standard Regions) - we're focusing on providing full privacy lands. We will never go on unless asked or invited. I remember one of the first lands I ever rented on OpenSim, years ago -- the owners showed up in a surprise visit to 'check us out and see what we were up to'. I was surprised but more so when they kept doing it as a regular thing.

Didn't work for me. Probably not for many of you too ^^

The E Grid will be back up the second we're done backing up on Friday. After that we expect pretty steady service time, other than maintenance!

Also wanted to say thank you to everyone who's supported us and all the kind words over the years .. it means the world!!

A feature request has been made to Satyr, the overworked and kind host of this website, to be able to turn off group chat. Please visit the post and give it a like.
https://opensimworld.com/post/130519

The request is an initiative of one of our group moderators, the always wonderful @JamieWright. Visit her profile if you'd like to, and like it too.
https://opensimworld.com/user/JamieWright

Image from the home page of one of Jamie's regions, Old School. It's a repository for some older builds, OpenSim historic builds even, classic avatars, collections we want to preserve. If that is the kind of stuff you are looking for, pay it a visit.

https://opensimworld.com/hop/95214

EDIT: I've revised the group guidelines to make it clear about how to use, and not use, group chat. Hope that helps.

Hot from the chat box...from me (plus some extra super informative notes!)

As much as I dislike it, I'm going to chat to end the chat. The group guidelines ask that you do not post asks in chat, and not answer them. If you post in the group, you can let people know by pasting just the link to that post in chat. And as likeable as we all are, the group is not a social hub. There is no good reason to use chat in the group. And there are several good reasons not to. First, the chat feature can not be turned off. And, if someone does chat, the group message mail box notice auto-annoyingly pops up over, and over, and over again. For me, and likely others, the only solution is to ignore the message notification, which means notifications about new post are not seen. Not good. Not good at all.

So, our group guideline ask that you do not use group chat. I started the group as an alternative to chat, and in the first month of our now two year existence, we became the largest and most active group on OSW. For many, our group is one of the best experiences we have on the site. We have a dedicated crew of helpers, including grid and shop owners. We are nice people. Please be nice back and don't use chat.

Chat in this group not only annoys people in general. It annoys me. I don't want to be annoyed. You don't want me to be annoyed. So, lets look at what annoying things have happened since yesterday.

Cyber posted about a problem. Harper provided a solution. Jamie, one of the group moderators, said that she had taken action so Cyber wouldn't see the group chats anymore. Any chat messages after that were not necessary.

And yet, now a day after all had been resolved, the chat was kept alive by further chat. The chat was about a person. No one in this group need chat about people -- especially when you are requested to chat not at all.

Jamie took steps to stop Cyber from getting chats. She removed him from the group. In the past, I've taken the same step when people consistently ignore the group guidelines, even after they have been reminded of them in a personal message. Please regard this as a personal message to those who haven't read the guidelines, and/or don't follow them.

The moderators and I can remove persistent chatters from the group when they ignore a private message to follow the guidelines. Hopefully, removing people from the group will not be necessary. And if someone is removed, all they need to do is private message us and say that:
1. They have read the guidelines and
2. Agree to follow them.

That has only been necessary a few times, and when people return, they are often one of the first people to remind people in chat not to chat, PLUS move the request made in chat to a group post. How cool is that! We want to help people find what they are looking for. And they ain't looking for no chat.

No chat? Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy!

@opensimworld Some groups want chat and some do not. People get bogged down with personal messages and group chats all coming in. It would be great to toggle this off as a group owner or moderator. @Xinashi and her mods would really benefit from this. Please and thank you.