Metaversally speaking – where are they?

I build. No secrets there. I sell through an in-world store, SL Marketplace and Metaverse Exchange (MVX).

Or rather, I did.

A couple of weeks ago, I did a huge price restructuring for my house and home builds to reflect current market trends. As a part of this, I obviously updated prices on both SLM and MVX – noting in the process that the latter was now supporting several other grids – good oh! I thought.

Around the middle of last week, I was fiddling around and needed to log into MVX- only to find it’s no longer there.

What on earth has happened? Currently, going from the page that is displayed, it would appear the site is held pending renewal – but the fact it’s been like this for the better part of a week is a little worrying; and others are noticing as well, with questions being asked on forums including SLU. Siann Beck, creator of MVX apparently hasn’t logged-in to SL since the 17th January. Nor have there been any e-mails through the MVX channels (or at least, none that I’ve received).

*IF* MVX has gone, it’ll be a shame. I didn’t sell much through that channel, but the site was well considered and, even with the massive improvements LL have made in developing SLM, had several options that LL would have done well to adopt.

Here’s hoping this is just a hiccup, and MVX hasn’t permanently vanished into the ether…