ブログエントリ by Ember Thirza

2015年 03月 23日(月曜日) 19:20 - Ember Thirza の投稿
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In order to organize events for my hypergridding group, HGSafari, I often have to sign up on new grids. Having a local account makes it easier to connect with grid owners and to organize our visit. We try not to go to grids that are not expecting us, as this can cause problems, like crashing the sim or even the whole grid. Also, it's nice to meet the locals, and have a chance to really connect with other people in open sim, not just look at an empty, if beautiful region.


JOGrid's website confirms the fact that despite being a global village, there is still a wealth of variety in approaches to communication. In other words, JOGrid is not easy for a westerner to get into!  It's nice to be surrounded by totally incomprehensible writing. It feels like really being abroad while inworld. But that might soon get irritating. And that is a timely reminder of how much non-English speakers have to deal with on a daily basis, online. Not only that, this site seems to be running an ancient form of joomla, which makes me wonder how much and how often it is maintained.
The question remains - what is JOGrid? Is it an official institution? a private school? what are the courses on offer? Who runs the grid and when are they online? None of this is yet evident. Which is quite exciting, because, of course, it works both ways.

It would be more exciting if I could actually get inworld, of course. 
Despite changing my password Singularity keeps refusing to let me log in. The grid seems unreachable via hypergridding today too, which makes me suspect it's not really online. These are classic open sim hurdles which I've faced many times before. but after an hour or so of trying to get inworld, and being told my login credentials are not right, I got fed up.
Will it be worth my while to return? Will there be a follow up to this blog entry?