[Mesh goes gridwide: Create, sell, buy & enjoy all-new things in SL]

@ Decro

Maybe you should be glad that the rest of the "dinosaurs" had patience, and didn't leave SL right away when the pest... ehmm... I mean Viewer 2.0 was introduced!

Yeah, you are really "Avant Garde", aren't you? But how would you feel if you look around and find only TEN other rezidents online who are "gratefull" and "state of the art" like you are?

I'm more than 4 years old by now and I've been online almost every day since I was created, and I'm a premium member for more than 3 years. But ever since LL came up with that dreaded V2 interface, I've been fighting for my survival!

I've tried it again and again, but never felt comfortable with it, even after months and years! If it wouldn't be for 3rd party clients, I would have dropped SL more than a year ago. Currently I'm practicing SL on Firestorm with an Alt an hour per day, and I still feel not comfortable enough to play my premium account on it! And more and more it looks to me like LL should be gratefull that the Firestorm team keeps people like me still around, people who hope that SL might still be accessable with an interface that's halfway acceptable and useable!

I don't give a damn about mesh. I've come to a point where I'm glad enough when the Lab does nothing at all! I'm tired and sick of a their messed up search, that displays "fancy" looking self scrolling classifieds, no matter what I'm REALLY looking for! And that's just a hint. I'm still not sure if I'll still be here in a year from now. Since they introduced Windlight, which was great, the Lab hardly comes up with anything that REALLY enhances my experience. More likely than not, they deminish my experience. I've come to a point where I not even consider to use their client anymore!

I hope I gave you an idea how SL looks from a "dinosaurs" point of view. Look at the data that tells you how many new users stay in SL, and you might appreciate that some dinos still fight for their survival. If we turn our backs to SL, "your imagination" might find not many rezidents whose company might enhance your vision. And by the way: Some of those dinos are still paying the bills for your imagination...

With kind greetings - Your Dino - Millennium Sands

[Viewer 2.5 with Web Profiles Has Arrived]

Ok, I didn't read all those 158 comments so far, but I still have a little issue...

First, the plus (I write this so the folks from the Lab get a positive feedback once in a while...)

My concerns about "My Notices" turned out to be addressed. I only didn't see my notices because I wasn't logged in here in this blog. Ehm... do I have to log in to the blog every time I want to check my notices? Well, I suppose to be logged with viewer 2 will override this procedure. Since I'm using Phoenix and don't intend to use viewer 2, unless I'm forced to use it (a case that might cause me to cancel my premium account , cash out and say goodbye to SL once and for all), I'd say the wrong perception of this issue was my fault.

Now to the minus....

I still need a privacy setting that hides my groups to EVERYBODY, even friends!

[Viewer 2.5 Beta Now Available]

The discussion of privacy settings has unfortunately distracted almost everybody from other concerns.

For years, I wrote notices into profiles. These remarks serve as a sort of long range memory, telling me what kind of experience I had when I met the profile owner, when and where we met, and many more things.

Erasing these notices by dropping in-world profiles would sort of lobotomise me, if you get my meaning.

In-world profiles were a very useful tool in general, while these new web-based profiles look quite pointless to me.