Jo Yardley

Any news on when we can expect an update to fix some of the issues? I'd love to start using this but until it can direct people to a skybox, I can't.

In an ideal world you would be able to set an exact grid reference where you want people who found your sim via the place pages to land, overriding even the forced redirect settings and landing point you've set for that parcel. After all, people who arrive via an inworld landmark or via search might be more experienced than someone who arrives via the place page or maybe you just want to give them a slightly different experience. If you have a shop you may want regular visitors to arrive in the for sale section while you want place pages visitors to arrive at a nice fancy welcome area. Either way, you shoud be able to set the landing point for place pages exactly.

There is nowhere where you can actually change or set the grid references in the place pages edit. It is stuck at 23 meters high at the Z reference and even if the parcel has a forced landing point, via the place pages I still end up at the 23 meters Z location.

It seems they put the feature live without fixing the most important bug? If you choose to visit a place you get send to the wrong spot! ALL my places, sims, shops, etc, are in skyboxes, it is where you arrive, usually above 1920 meters high. If you go to a parcel place... you end up on the ground. And Time Portal is shared as one of the example place pages (yay!) and for the region place pace it somehow works, you do get send to the skybox arrival area, but if you then choose a place page for a parcel (like every single venue and shop in that region) you end up on a barren wasteland down below. And as the shops are rather important for me to pay the tier, it is really rather inconvenient. But the place pages teleporting doesn't seem to work very well in general, often when I click the visit button nothing happens at all, sometimes it opens another version of SL! Maybe that is just my bad old computer (someone buy me a new one) or because I use Firestorm, but when I click the Visit button in Firefox, nothing happens, nothing at all. It doesn't start SL and when SL is already running it doesn't take me to the location. Same in Internet Explorer. It does all seem to work with google chrome although there it opens the map window and then a teleport window in the viewer. So in short, till that gets fixed, I can't really use them, as I fear they will either not work or send visitors to the wasteland below where I keep my killer rabbits.

Absinthe it is then.

So now I'm here, anyone want some schnaps?

Just wondering when we can expect an update on this project.

You'd be wrong.

They work seperately but somehow you cant get to them via the region page.

Phew, finally done. What a job! Anyway, I have 2 main sims in SL, 1920s Berlin and Time Portal. Because the slurl still directs you to a random spot, you'll have to manually change the last grid reference to 1930. For Berlin I'll share this place page; https://places.secondlife.com/parcels/46919/the-1920s-berlin-project-weimar-republic-role-play-sim I can't wait till I can add an events calendar there. And here is my Time Travel sim; https://places.secondlife.com/regions/46933/time-portal I really like that it shows all the parcels, as most of them are shops, this is a nice handy way for people to find where they want to come spend their money. This sim will have six different zones, I'd love to have at least 6 pictures there to show people a taste of every zone. I'd also love an events calendar here, links to social media, etc. But as requested, I filmed jiras for that. Personally I also think the font below each parcel in the region is too big and I miss the short description.

Troy Linden wrote: Thanks Whirly and Jo! Keep them coming! We're a glutton for punishment :smileylol: :smileylol: :smileylol: Famous last words!

Well someone has to keep the Lindens busy, otherwise they hang out in the mall, chewing gum and getting in everybodys way till someone calls their parents! /me salutes

Ok, you've asked for it, I'll start filling up the JIRA I won't share any pages yet because the 'visit' link somehow takes people to the wrong spot, always, as it doesn't give the right height grid reference. But I'm making them already, got a lot!

Also, maybe it's just me, but clicking a place in a region on a region Place Page doesn't load the actual page for that place, it gets me a page that won't load.

Noob question (I've only been in SL for 7 years); How do you set a landing points for these place pages? The regions and parcels I've got all seem to connect to a grid reference I don't want. The landing points regions have set in Place pages don't work at all, they give you a N/A TP inworld. The landing points parcels have seem random or the middle of the map, even with teleport routing activated.

The train at the entrance of our sim does not move, just sit on the bench and it will teleport you to Berlin city. The train at the station starts moving regularly, just like in RL you'll just have to wait till the driver starts.

We really need a way to let outsiders see these pages though, without them needing an account first. Use these pages to lure non-sl people in Perhaps a little disclaimer about possible maturity issues or something, but these pages should be viewable for everyone. Can't wait for the calender, hopefully with option for repeat events so we don't have to make an description every single day for those daily events. Also the option to contact the parcel/sim owner, like a name and IM inworld or email option. I'd LOVE to see these pages also for groups, perhaps with chat or forum function and photo album, so we can stop using facebook. The album should be added to the Place Page as well, a slideshow perhaps of say a dozen or so pictures. Or maybe a Flickr plugin? And maybe some layout options so we can move things about, like wordpress.

It sometimes takes a while to load, maybe lots of people are checking it out at the same time or maybe the server still needs warming up and extra coal on the fire. When it takes to long I just refresh the page or click the 18+ button a few times

Great idea, another superb addition to SL that I hope will eventually allow us to stop using Facebook and google groups. Bring on the calendar and perhaps combine this all with our my-sl pages as well. So many possibilities but even as "just" a page, already something I rather like. Anyway, about bugs, when I click your link to the JIRA I get an error; Not Found (404) /secure%5D Could not find what you were looking for. Maybe you should raise an issue.

Is Primsmas coming yet for us not living on mainland? It's not that I'm impatient or anything but... erm never mind, I AM impatient. A little bird told me that the goal was to get the prim limits raised gridwide before Thanksgiving, is that true? Any idea of an ETA?

Sounds good, where can I find them, which one should I get?

The news is out; "(Second) Life changing” news revealed; more prims for everybody https://joyardley.wordpress.com/2016/11/03/second-life-chancing-news-revealed-more-prims-for-everybody/

We've already got a few of those set up and are looking for other authentic historical zones to add

So like pretty much every other sim then? Well if it doesn't belong here, admins are free to (re)move it.

I'm making a sim related announcement, not promoting myself aggresively, no merchants, no listings, no products, no services.