All round, April was terrible. I experienced a 30% drop in sales and consider myself lucky, having heard of worse figures from many friends.

Given the downtime amounted to so many lost user hours accumulated and decreased ability to pay for tier, I would like to know if LL would consider compensation of some sort. I know this sort of thing is hard to gauge and doing so would cost the company a great deal, but something more than a mere acknowledgement would be useful, if even in the form of compensated tier or classified ad fees.

Unfortunately, considering LL was very careful not to allow these downtimes to exceed 24hrs, I really doubt this will happen.

Things seem to be rebounding for me so far in May, but I've learned my lesson and will not count my eggs just yet. Here's hoping May is much, much better.