[opensource-dev] Slightly off topic but need ideas how to fix

[Erin Mallory]

This is slightly off topic but as the ramifications of what will happen when the old profiles are taken down is starting to get out there, merchants and content creators are starting to panic about what these new profiles mean for them.
There is a a ton of content that is going to be broken by this, much of it content that businesses rely on heavily.
a more full list can be found in web-3509 but a number of rewards systems, venders, and security devices found within hundreds if not thousands of SL stores are built heavily around the old profile pages and cannot be easily updated or replaced before the old profiles will likely be taken down... Even if businesses begin to switch over, that involves changing out sometimes hundreds of venders, everything associated with the venders (like gift cards etc), and during all of that the ability to make new content is affected. 
Many SL businesses are teetering on the edge of bankrupcy already, including many where this is the SOLE or largest percentage of income to those that simply are incapable of getting an income any other way. 
So I'm pleading with the lindens and devs on this list to PLEASE start putting some thought to how to mitigate this... 
 		 	   		  
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