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IMPORTANT UPDATE August 15th: Due to technical problems with the Strange Lights experience, today’s meetup (Tuesday, August 15th) was moved to the Astro Port experience in Sansar. We will try again tomorrow (Wednesday) at the Strange Lights experience (check your in-world Atlas for the link).

Well, Sansar has now been open to the general public for two weeks. There are now a grand total of 581 published experiences in the Sansar Atlas. (This is a very useful link! No more scrolling through the Atlas listings and counting in my head.)

Jenn, the Lead Community Manager for Sansar, has been hosting well-attended daily user meetups Mondays through Fridays in-world at 3:00 p.m. Pacific Time/Sansar Time. This week’s meetings are being held at the Sansar experience Strange Lights. I encourage you to come in-world (either or desktop or in your VR headset), meet your fellow Sansar users, and ask questions.

The above picture was taken during an in-world Office Hours meeting on July 7th, 2017, during the closed beta test of Sansar. Notice the red, yellow, and green dinosaur avatars! Linden Lab took them out of the avatar selection menus just before launching the open creator beta, leaving just the human avatars, but hopefully, someday they will bring them back again. They were great fun and very popular!

 

I have decided to create a Facebook group for the Sansar Newsblog. Here is the link if you are interested in joining. I will be cross-posting blogposts to this new group.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SansarNewsblog/

I’ve also created a new Google+ community called Sansar Newsblog. You can join that too if you use Google+ as your preferred social network. I will also be cross-posting blogposts to this community.

I was just checking out my referrer statistics from WordPress for the Sansar Newsblog. Here are the Top Ten referrer sites, the ones that drive the most traffic to my blog:

1. Facebook
2. Twitter
3. New World Notes
4. Google+
5. Android apps (mostly Slack)
6. Echt Virtuell
7. igHome (a personalized homepage service)
8. StrawberrySingh.com
9. Search engines (mostly Google Search)
10. WordPress.com Reader

Note that I’ve been cross-posting most of my blogposts to Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ so that would explain the referrer traffic from those sites. I’ve got a ton of visitors to the blog from Facebook posts to various groups relating to Sansar and virtual reality.

The Slack traffic is due to my cross-posting blog links to the Sansar Slack channel. This is a private channel that Linden Lab used to communicate with the software testers during the closed beta test, and it will soon be shut down. Linden Lab plans to set up a public Discord server to replace it.

After the United States, Germany is the country with the second-highest number of visitors to my blog, probably due to Echt Virtuell and other German blogs and forums.

Liz (a.k.a. Isabelle Cheren) has a blog called Chich-y TzaTziki and she has written a blogpost and posted a YouTube video showing you how to change the skybox in your Sansar experiences. Here’s the link to her blogpost and her YouTube video:

How to Change the Sky in Sansar