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Bots Playground Is Up and Running

Bots Playground is fully operational again. All scripts are now running smoothly.

The Playground was originally launched as a proof-of-concept to support a few dozen user scripts. Since then, it’s grown significantly and now runs several thousand scripts simultaneously. This scale has brought engineering challenges.

Issue details

During our recent platform migration, we upgraded the JavaScript sandboxes to run across multiple servers. However, a configuration oversight (specifically, a network socket limitation on the main Playground process) caused an unexpected cluster-wide crash.

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Bots Playground scheduled maintenance

We will be improving Bots Playground on June 04th 02:00-12:00 SLT: making Playground faster, reliable and more performant.

The Playground interface may not be available, and your scripts might restart several times.

New Playground features: check owner, manager or bot

We added new commands to Bot Playgrounds (Second Life bot JavaScript sandbox):

plus one function to get real-time location of the bot:

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Unscheduled Bots Playground Maintenance

Bots Playground has received an update today: we’ve got script folders for script creators convenience.

Unfortunately we occasionally hit a Second Life maintenance window so some scripts were not started automatically despite of our efforts. Please visit your Bots Playground to ensure that all required scripts are running.

My personal apologies for the inconvenience! 🙏

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