Can server version messages when crossing regions be switched off ?

[Wilhiam Hydraconis]

These server messages are hardly important to me when crossing regions quickly while biking. Can these messages be switched off in the client ( perhaps by a debug-setting ) ?

[Rolig Loon]

You can't turn them off, but you can just ignore them.  They fade in about 5 seconds. You're right that the messages don't make much difference to most people. LL sends them, though, because they DO make a difference to some people.  Unlike the "old" days when all of SL's sims used to run on the same version of server software, we usually have three or four versions deployed across SL at once now.  As a result, experimental features or bug fixes that work in one region may not work in the next one.  This could lead to confusion and frustration for some users, so LL is taking the safe way out and at least letting us all know when we've moved under control of different servers.

[Marigold Devin]

Aye, it's a shame they can't be off by default, and turned on via the debug menu by those who take an interest in this kind of detail.

[Wilhiam Hydraconis]

Thanks for answering , Rolig.

 

Just pondering .. this also generates extra traffic no doubt between server and client ( not heavily I reckon ) and it is actually annoyingly repetitive when crossing region after region on route. I think it would benefit the client(viewer) if these message were not generated on demand.

[Wilhiam Hydraconis]

Exactly, Marigold ... as far as using vehicles goes like I do it's a kind of oblivious feature to me.

[Rolig Loon]

I agree completely. In the grand scheme of annoying things, this one doesn't rank very high for me, but it does seem like one of those easy-to-fix things that some clever Linden ought to be able to do. Perhaps you ought to file a JIRA.

[Wilhiam Hydraconis]

/me nods.

 

I'll 'pop' the question first in the server section of the forums to have an initial answer from a Linden on the matter. If the same is suggested I will file one.