I can see the world of Second Life as so much more than what I did at the beginning of my SL experience. First of all kudos to SL for the stability that they do provide because I will say that I have been a resident of other online worlds that would have difficulties but would have no communication as to why other than just seeing the word "offline" appear without any other reasoning. I would like to add a suggestion/idea to this issue. That is to have LL provide a dedicated area/s that cater to heavy events that could be rented out to groups or communities. I know Rezzable has been awesome about donating/renting out sims for events. Pardon my non-technical knowledge but I would like there to be a way that would allow these sims higher bandwidth type of structure to allow more people on the sim with more support than what you can currently get with a single sim. Again, I'm not sure what is possible, but thought I would at least put the idea out there. Overall I would like to see more stability with the grid but with that it would be nice to have a clear indication of how they plan on doing it. I agree with Vint here that a central area or website page or newsletter that is clearly communicated to residents. Even to possibly have some marketing towards upcoming benchmarks of improvements. I would like to keep more of the technical side out of the picture and provide more of an overall outline such as bullet points with links available for more information.