Yeah, Lani and Ixi were stuck on some 0.8.2.2 dev version, I think. They were definitely BoM-compatible, otherwise there would have been masses of complaints about Lani wrecking BoM avatars. Besides, I've never had any problems there, and I'm a BoM early adopter.
Remember those people mover strips? Their script stopped working in OpenSim 0.9.3.0 or 0.9.3.1, just like a whole lot of other scripts no longer work properly (AVsitter, almost all vehicle rezzers) or at all. At Lani, these strips kept working.
I don't think anyone has an OAR of Lani. If at all, that'd have to be Lani herself, regularly backing Lani up. After all, her tenants kept adding new stuff after she had left, so if she had made the last backup OAR prior to her departure, it would be outdated now.
Also, just because it's old, doesn't mean it's objectively bad and useless. Even though probably the vast majority of OpenSim users would loudly disagree and say that there are, in fact, not much more than six places around the Hypergrid where it's worth picking up stuff.
This is particularly sad in the cases of those who either don't have shops elsewhere, or whose shops keep disappearing or have disappeared altogether, who have cleared stuff out of their other shops that was still available at Lani.
A good example is Vbinnia Radek whose legendary Steam sim is hit-and-miss at best when it comes to it being online. She must have had everything squeezed together at Lani as well, even including Arcadia Asylum items. Good luck collecting Vbinnia's boxes now, especially with the extra challenge of finding boxes that are still credited to her as opposed to other store owners who didn't know how to properly save their freebie sim as an OAR and restore it.
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