[Bringing Teens to Second Life’s Main Grid]

Hi Cherry, privacy and safety/security is important to the teen residents as well as adults.  We did not ignore what you have raised; we decided to weigh on the side of giving equal privacy rights to both our teen and adult users.

You took an adult grid and added children to it. The commemts of every entry on this subject are full of reasons why it's a very bad idea. Yet another convulsion foisted upon your customers, and again, for no good reason other than "we want this to happen no matter what our customers say".

Congrats Terrance, once again you ignored the opinion of a huge majority of your customers...

[Bringing Teens to Second Life’s Main Grid]

Something that no one at the Lab has considered, what about open groups who's clientele is on mature land? They're asking group owners to be responsible for their incompetent half-baked approach to this.

Move PG to it's own continent, just like Zindra had to.

I will never understand why millions of adults have to make so much sacrifice for just a few hundred kids. It's asinine and has zero justification.

[The Second Life Economy in Q3 2010]

What Desmond said...

[The Second Life Economy in Q3 2010]

The Lab sold 400+ Homesteads at a deep discount in both price and tier to one of the larrger estates in Q2, that "Growth" will take a while to bleed off of their statistics.

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Good to know...

Is there a way to turn off the 1000 meter smog layer?

[Viewer 2.2 Beta has Arrived!]

Yes, V2 is now where it *should* have been at the point of Beta release.

The "public alpha" period is just wrapping up...

The lab will, however, take their time deprecating V1.x and the TPV's created from it's codebase. The numbers say that 70+% of active residents do not yet use V2 viewers, so it  would be foolish beyond even the Lab's ability for nonsense to force a change now.

All opinions to the contrary, the large majority of residents (via public and private polling) believe that V2 "sucks". That's a tough hill to climb. Be patient, perhaps in a year or so the V2 will functional and immersive enough for mainstream adoption.

[Viewer 2.2 Beta has Arrived!]

...  and they're not going to split their focus to try and continue to maintain the old version of the software just for a few holdouts.

You're calling over 70% of all SL users "holdouts"?

You have an interesting way with words...

[Second Life Economy Stable in Q2 2010]

Also, I doubt they paid 325 each, ya know?

[Second Life Economy Stable in Q2 2010]

It was leaked that one estate was able to arrange that deal, Jack admitted it the next week...

It doesn't look as if another has taken advantage of that pricing, if for no other reason other than investing that much in SL is somewhat foolish.

No large estate groupings of that magnitude have been seen since.

[Second Life Economy Stable in Q2 2010]

Jack's office hour

[Second Life Economy Stable in Q2 2010]

Thanks Nelson, those numbers are about what I expected.

There's one metric that's noticably missing, however...

Retention rate of  Q2 signups (using the new viewer or not).

We were promised those numbers when we were force-fed the V2, where are they?

[Second Life Economy Stable in Q2 2010]

If you own a large estate and buy 400+ homesteads at a time now, the lab will still tier them at 95/month each. That metric is the favoritism that the Lab is showing the large estates.

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Just exactly what did you think would happen when the Lab ignored user feedback while creating a UI in total secrecy,  and then stated that the "millions of future users will love the new viewer".

 

You have a long uphill climb ahead of you...