[The Second Life Economy in Q4 2010]

Ok Ok - I have to yield to your argument- you are much better qualified than me to comment on the technical aspects of the viewer.  Being basically just a "consumer" user, I was only looking at it from that type of usage. Which is "light" compared to people who need better tools to create content. I'm more concerned about camera function, messaging, and notifications, which probably are more of a pain in the posterior to a content creator than just a "wanderer" like me! So ok  Touche!! youare correct!

But I think we actually agree that -- yes it is a management environment problem. We just said it in different ways. The content creating people need that 10% factor of management work done properly or they cannot do the 90% creative work!  And LL continues to make huge blunders! So you said it more succinctly.

[The Second Life Economy in Q4 2010]

Being  6yrs+ in SL, I am one old timer who actually likes viewer 2.  Of course there are things that still need fixed and or improved, but I   think that the people who don't seem to like it have not taken the time and effort to really get familiar with all the features that it has.  Most of the things i see people complaining about can be adjusted to suit, and there are many features that make it much more user-friendly than the old viewer. 

I am sure that when the original viewer was released there were a lot of things that people complained about - but there wasn't a "0.0" viewer to fall back on then. So we made do with what we had. Now there are many alternatives, so its impossible to make one viewer satisfy the varied needs. but for me Viewer 2 is a great improvement over 1.0.

Re": the thread here----the growth does not look healthy - from any standpoint, so something new needs to be done to get it moving  UP!  It's as much the managements fault as it is the users. The users have created 90% of the content, so how can the burden be on anyone else? Other than creating the environment? Both are crucial.

[The Second Life Economy in Q3 2010]

My Online time has increased dramatically, and will probably continue- since I retired from my RL job this month!  And what else can I afford to do unless its virtual!