Suggestion: User settings stored on server.

[Thohi Torok]

This is probably posted in the wrong spot. I tend to do that... So sorry, and please move it, please. Thanks. :3

 

 

After having re-done my system after a meltdown, and reinstalled SL, it occurs to me, like it has done every single time; I've been on SL for over 4 years.. Why does a clean install always make SL treat me like it's my first time there?

Surely, storing my settings (path for saving logs, DO I save logs, chat settings, audio settings, other preferences and the fact that I've been inworld before!) on the server, rather than locally, wouldn't be THAT difficult? It'd make everything a heck of a lot more convenient, and save me the - frankly rather condescending - "Left clicking something means you interact with it. Oh, and you can move by pressing these keys" messages.

[Hitomi Tiponi]

When you get a corrupted setting it could be more difficult to sort it out - and I know that i have different settings on different computers because their capabilities differ. And having yet another thing to get lost or delayed somewhere else (I tend to trust my own machines to store things rather than LL's) and has to be transferred across the network each time does not appeal.

 

You can always back up your own settings before doing re-installs on your system - that is probably the easiest way around this problem.

[Void Singer]

never mind having to log in BEFORE you can change any settings...

seriously why do I need to log in before I turn off chat logging? (that's being done by the viewer, and I'll have to manually delete because it's auto created before I can possibly turn it off)

or am unable to specify maturity rating preference before login? (which should obviously just revert or ignore settings it can't make)

 

[Deej Kasshiki]

The OP's idea sounds good on paper but, as wonky as SL's database and asset servers can be I really wouldn't trust them or want to burden them any extra work.