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Hi, Robin.
I ‘m asking you and everyone else in the LInden staff who’s in facebook to join the facebook group I see that some of the Linden staff have joined. I’m asking you to support this idea and pass this idea on to the rest of the staff at Linden Lab I’m asking you and the rest of the Linden staff to show your support for this idea in the blog and in the Resident Answers forum at http://forums.secondlife.com/forumdisplay.php?f=327 . Thanks for your time and hopefully for some support from LL workers for SL being a facebook network!
“Add Second Life to available regional networks!“
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To: support@secondlife.com Re: Where are the new last names?
To: support@secondlife.com
Why have there not been any new last names in such a long time? People have been asking and complaining about this for a long time. It doesn’t seem like answering the question would be so hard a thing to do.
Here’s an example of a forum post from another user representative of people’s concerns:
Are Lindens Lazy with Last Names?
Alright, it used to be hard to get that perfect first and last name match, but now it’s just downright impossible for new people to get any names without having to resort to using jibberish for a first name. For 6 months there have been no new names added or taken away from the last name list, what is this telling us?
I don’t personally need any new last names, I’m just wondering what the answer to this question is.
I’m posting this question in my blog at http://letterstolindenlab.wordpress.com with hope of having a good response to post there as well.
No reason to stop signing the letter
Linden Lab has acknowledged the existence of an open letter from the SL community requesting bug fixes instead of new features, but that is no reason to refrain from signing the letter in you haven’t already done so.
The open letter is still available to sign at http://www.projectopenletter.com .
Changing your site’s main page, like sluniverse, did, is a neat idea; this will affect what people see when they do a Google search for the term “Second Life”, instead of seeing quite so many happy stories from Pollyannas and B.S. about making easy money on the blogs of the uninformed a surfer might see hundreds or thousand of pages requesting bug fixes.
project open letter – please fix sl
A group of Second Life users has produced an open letter to Linden Lab concerning the chronic unsolved bugs and performance problems which have plagued Second Life users since Linden Lab first opened the doors to its virtual world. This expression of concern can be found at is at http://www.projectopenletter.com .
The text at http://www.projectopenletter.com reads as follows:
Welcome to project open letter. Below is the full text of the letter being sent to Linden Lab out of concern for ongoing stability problems that are worsening as Second Life is experiencing massive growth. For more information about the motivations behind the project and, please see the About section.
The letter to Linden lab:
In the past eighteen months, Second Life has expanded, growing from a small community of early adopters to a platform supporting millions of users. Linden Lab has created a world that inspires a deep level of passion in its users and provides unprecedented opportunities to share creatively, socially, and financially.
With explosive levels of growth often come unexpected problems. In keeping with your company’s policy and rich history of resident involvement, we the undersigned would like to take this opportunity to address some concerns that we feel have gone unanswered for too long.
There are some consistent, ongoing problems that are getting worse under heavy load, not better, and are not simply irritants but problems that are causing financial loss in some cases, which is unacceptable. Here is a brief list of the main concerns:
* Inventory loss – this is a devastating problem that is worsening. We have no ability to protect our own inventories through backups, and are trusting you to protect that data. This is the highest priority. Sensible inventory limits (on non-verified accounts only), combined with better management tools and ways to protect our inventory ourselves would help to mitigate the problem as well. Regardless, this cannot continue – we will not accept financial loss as a feature of Second Life. It is your responsibility as service provider to ensure our data is not lost, and you are failing us.
* Problems with Find and Friends List – we continue to see search outages on a far too regular basis. It is bad enough trying to get anywhere without being able to use search, but many users are also paying money for classified ads. Our friends lists just do not work reliably any longer, after years without an issue with them. If America Online/MSN/Yahoo can provide presence information for hundreds of millions of users, surely there is a way to make our friends lists work again.
* Grid stability and performance – teleports fail quite regularly, especially under heavy load. Attachments end up in places they did not start out in, and sim performance varies wildly. None of this makes for a very pleasant experience for users. Long promised improvement to physics and scripting would help dramatically to reduce these problems, but there are a lot of other scalability issues as well. It often feels like the grid is coming apart at the seams. The promised use of limiting logins of non-verified accounts during peak load has been severely lacking. This would be an effective interim solution to load issues, but Linden Lab seems unwilling to use it.
* Build tool problems – the importance of build tools that actually work as promised cannot be overstated enough – we rely on them to create content. Prim drift, disappearing prims, imprecise placement, problems with linking and other issues with the tools need to be addressed. Too much time is being spent trying to work around the problems.
* Transaction problems – inventory deliveries are failing with an alarming (and annoying) frequency, leaving merchants with the burden of replacing missing content and having to try to confim the transaction in the first place. We trust that our L$ balances are accurate, but given recent problems, that is a cause for concern as well, and one we place our full trust in you to ensure its accuracy.
We remain fully supportive of Second Life and are more than willing to continue doing our part to help, but our confidence is steadily being eroded due to a general lack of communication and the apparent failure to successfully address the many issues detailed above. What we are asking for is that these problems are addressed immediately, ahead of new features, and that we are able to see tangible improvements. We accept that this will not happen overnight but it also cannot be allowed to continue indefinitely either.
Thank you for taking the time to read this letter.
Sincerely,
The Undersigned
To see the rest of the site and sign the letter if you wish just go to http://www.projectopenletter.com .
James Linden, thanks for the picture.
To: James Linden at linden lab dot com
A while back I posted a request in Linden Answers for screenshots of software LL uses in monitoring the grid. You responded with the following link: http://forums.secondlife.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=15501&stc=1 .
For some reason I felt sort of honored to get such a response.
Thanks.
Concerning feature suggestions in the Jira tracker
To: support at secondlife dot com
Torley Linden posted the following in the secondlife.com Feature Suggestions forum:
Got a New Feature Request? Use the Second Life Issue Tracker!
Got a hot new feature idea? You can use our new Second Life Issue Tracker — be sure to do a search to see if your suggestion’s already in there!
Be sure to read the instructions; then you can enter issues and vote for what interests you! Once logged in, you can view all issues by # of votes.
Over time, we’ll be migrating to this from the older Feature Voting Tool, because it has better search and parallels the way we Lindens internally organize issues. However, it’s still in beta, meaning we’re still smoothing out the rough edges.
My question is:
How do you see a list of just the feature suggestions in the Second Life Issue Tracker?
