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[MadmanJohn Resident]

Saw this post and had to jump in. if you go back in the sl forums a ways you will find posts related to this,, but the short version, LLabs is slowly dismantling the group post system because they feel it's not being used the way it was intended to be. That's why they came up with "contact sets' as an option but that menas everyone would have to have everyone in their contact list to be able to work, which isn't an option for large groups.

But the thing is, groups were only designed to be used for property and small event control and group chats for brief notices or land updates, so the server allocations were never designed for this and also-- when a notice gets posted, it only gets sent to the most recent 499 people logged on, no matter how many are in a group. Seems to me if i recall correctly it was around that time they created the 499 post limit-- it started affecting large clubs and stores right away--- this was also around the time of the birth of the firestorm viewer--- the two are not related, it was just the timing.

So they are on a rant to do away with it all and get them under control-- i don't have a direct link for this but if you back into sl forums and other posts you will find all of what I just posted here, this all started in late 2011 and is a work in progress.

At this point a Sub-o is a viable and may be one of the only quick fix options. This will also get further limited by the new chui viewer system, which they are still writng code on.

Edit: I first heard about this at an office hours meeting in august of 2011, it hit the forums for a short time and llabs has done the best they could to sweep it under the rug, in the end of it all, most of the general public blamed the early firestomr for "messing up the grid" and the FS people had nothing to do with it at all. this is also part of what ignited all the fires to save the PX viewer--- this was also when they started imposing harder "cap limits" on im's and notices. That's all history now and nobody's talking much about it anymore but LLabs is going forward with this, and what they said at the time is they want it limted back to land useage only.