Nika Talaj

Thanks, Kylie. I think the default setting should be the same as the forums default setting (oldest first). I seem to see a pattern emerging on Answers of people coming in and re-posting answers that have already been given, perhaps so that the questioner will see their answer first and choose it as the right one?? I find the hidden comments a little odd, but my guess is that it is done to promote brevity..

The PJIRA was merged with the internal JIRA a while ago. According to LL, there is now only one JIRA instance for SL.

(Actually, JIRA is made by an Australian company named Atlassian http://www.atlassian.com/)

JIRA is the software Linden Lab uses to run the Bug Tracker for Second Life. Here's a description: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Bug_Tracker People often refer to individual bugs as JIRAs ... e.g. I went to log a JIRA for that bug where your head goes up your a@@, but I discovered that it already exists! https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-248

You know what would be neat is if LL, as a demonstration project, backed the redevelopment of Numbakulla using a mix of mesh, sculpties and prims. Same game, up-to-date execution. Free sim during development and up to 6 months afterward. Token payment for team members, but lots of visibility and press. If I heard any interest from LL for that, I'd be willing to step in, carry the tier on the current sim for a month of planning, and maybe even lead the project if none of the creative team wanted to. /stares into a Linden's eyes. I know you're reading your brand new forum.

The session management does seem a little odd. It looks to me like I am more-or-less logged in until I explicitly sign out, although I never told it to 'remember me'. > login, close browser > 12 hours pass, during which computer is shut down > go to forums site, I do not appear to be logged in > touch login button, poof! I am, without entering anything, automagically logged into the same account I was when I closed the browser If the forum login is going to be persistent by default, then when you come to the website it should show you as logged in.

That's a good idea, altho having just discovered it I'm not the person to do it. And it's closing today - no time to learn about it, really. However, I can pass the idea on to the thread I pointed to above, tho - 3 of the team involved in creating it have posted there. By the way, I haven't visited the History Wiki for quite a while, and it seems to have perhaps been merged into a larger wiki ... is this the place you mean: http://secondlife.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Historical_Locations ?

Info on creating a badge is here: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Your-Avatar/How-to-create-a-cool-forum-avatar-badge/td-p/707025 Note that some people are just uploading small transparent textures for their actual forum Avatar, leaving just the large badge picture.

NVM - Cerise just posted it in another forum. http://community.secondlife.com/t5/forums/recentpostspage/post-type/message

MO!!!! Woot! It's great to see you.

I would like a true "New Posts" view. This would look like the All Topics view: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/forums/recentpostspage/category-id/Forums/post-type/thread Only sorted by "Latest Post", most recent to least recent. If this view exists already, please post the URL for it! Thanks much.

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I think there is a small bug in the font choices for Firefox. When I post a URL (for example this one, to this message), it shows up as bold, not underlined, black text. However, in the reply entry dialog, it shows up more noticably as purple underlined text.

Suella Ember wrote: ... See, you are actually highlighting right there the problem with ranks...They should judge each comment on its own merits. The problem with ranks, as I see it, is not that they cause people to ignore those of lower ranks (I don't actually belive that really happens much). The problem is that it seeds this idea of division Yes, as you say, there are multiple problems with ranking. But I don't share your belief that people don't pay attention to them. I believe that LL and the companies that create website software like this platform have done their research, so I tend to think that social research done about DIGG and Yahoo and other sites that use ranking probably concludes that users asking questions pay attention to rankings. I'm sure LL views rankings as a tool that can help make this site more self-managing. I further believe that, rankings being akin to The Love Machine in that both are reputation management tools, LL would never consider disabling that feature here. Suella Ember wrote: if you start to feel like that you are never going to feel happy in any forum. Fortunately, this hasn't been a problem for me, but thank you for your concern. For example, n SL's older forums, I was fairly active from Jan 2007 until their closure. Over half my posts were answers to questions such as those now in SL Answers and the Content fora. Ah well, good times! Nowadays I'm fairly happy at SLU. And, outside of SL, I've managed to be content on a technical forum or two. :smileywink: But, although the software platform is improved, I think LL's increasing dependence on popularity as a measure of value is too distasteful to spend a lot of time here. I will drop by to ask questions, and for every question I ask I'll try to answer a few. Have fun, all you regulars!

Suella Ember wrote: ... Details of the ranks and roles are here and you can progress up the ranks depending on your activity here: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/help/faqpage/faq-category-id/ranksroles#ranksroles .... I was so hoping you found a different FAQ than the one I had already posted in the 6th response to this thread, but I suppose it is good that you reposted it, given your status as "Advisor". People who DO pay attention to titles are, I suppose, more likely to accept information from an Advisor than a mere Honored Resident. /sighs and leaves. Really, all that reputation management engines do is impoverish sites like this. People who are potentially helpful notice that they are being ignored in favor of ubiquitous 'answerers', and take themselves elsewhere.

Also, there are a fair number of helpful threads in the previous incarnation of the forums - the machinima archive is here: http://community.secondlife.com/t5/Machinima/bd-p/2121

Hi, Lucia. I've never used wegame, so can't help with the first part of your question. Like most casual machinima-makers, I use the free version of Fraps. It'll just record your streaming application (that is to say, SL). Unless you're making tutorials like Torley's, you'll also want to turn off SL's UI before you record (ctrl-alt-F1 in v1.x based viewers). I'm not sure about how to turn off the UI in v2. This and other hints are covered in Torley's machinima hints page: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Making_movies There are other wiki pages on machinima that are also helpful, just search. Have fun!

Hi, Nimue. Have you tried asking about this on the Phoenix Support inworld group? They have inworld groups for support in several languages: http://www.phoenixviewer.com/support.php The mornings (SL time) seem to me to be always well staffed by good support people, in the English group at least. You may notice that they provide email support as well. Their forums don't seem terribly active. That said, I suspect that it may be a bug. Here's a possible bug report on their Jira: http://jira.phoenixviewer.com/browse/FIRE-497

Since we can't start threads in this subforum, let me briefly return to the ostensible topic of this thread for a little feedback on forum usability. > I really love the tabs that allow quick switching between Answers, Forums, Blogs and Knowledge Base. :smileytongue: > I would like a "Reply to topic" button at the bottom of the last page (at the bottom of every page would work too). I often want to reply to the OP after reading the most recent post, which in the default linear view is the bottom of the last page. (ETA: I assume the "Reply" button on every post replies to just that post, which becomes a pain in a threaded view).

Hmmm. "Honored Resident" is not listed in the FAQ on roles and ranks. I imagine that it is the same as "Resident", though. Perhaps they're adding the honorific just to set a tone of mutual respect. /reminds herself to always refer to Lexie as "Esteemed Linden Overlordess".

The creators of the Numbakulla "puzzle" sim (it was a team effort) have regretfully announced that they can no longer cover the tier. I learned about it here. Its game has been played by 28,500 people. I'm not involved with this sim at all, nor is anyone I know. I just encountered it for the first time this week. Numbakulla is beautiful, very magical, poetic, and entertaining. I wish there was some way that LL could partner with residents to ensure that bulds that showcase SL at its best, builds that have already been carried for years by their creators, are preserved and fostered. I cry for LL's lack of vision in letting this one slip away. The makers hope to move it to OpenSIm somewhere.

Thanks, Suella, great tip. I had better luck with a badge width of 160 pixels, height 175 - maybe some artifact of the site automatically resizing the pic? Also, the actual size of the badge seems to me to change based on the options one chooses to display in it, as well as the size of an individual post. Even if a little odd, the badge is a nice option. Personally, though, I'd be very willing to trade badge space for a larger, more square avatar pic.

If it is at all possible to port threads from the Jive Archive area to the new area, I would very much like the scripting content forum archive to be moved. Quite a few people spent a lot of time moving meaningful content from the VB forums to the Jive scripting forums, and I doubt that effort will ever be made again. Plus, in the dialog I'm using right now to write this message, I don't see a cursor at all. Using Firefox with no custom palettes or anything.

It’s also important to note that we are going to remove the “voting” feature in JIRA in one month. Today, we do not use voting to triage or to make product decisions and the last thing that we want to do is set false expectations. Have you considered that supporters of a particular Jira will simply tell their friends to "watch" that item? Given the much greater numbers of people who now vote than watch issues, be prepared for vastly increased load on your Jira messaging system. Facebook is the best place to find out about cool things going on in Second Life, share ideas, and get the inside scoop on inworld events, contests, machinima releases, PR activities, fun discussions, and more. From Facebook TOS: Facebook users provide their real names and information, and we need your help to keep it that way. Are you saying that no one in LL's marketing department finds it the least bit ironic that you are pointing to Facebook, a no-fly zone for SL avatars, as the best day-to-day source on what to do in SL? Also, please note that next month we will be rolling out a new community platform--an integrated system that will include SL Blogs, SL Forums, SL Answers, and the Knowledge Base.

Welcome, Rod, great start in communicating with the residents! I hope you are blessed with a similar ability to communicate with the real world, and can salvage the reputation of virtual worlds in general by bringing SL the success it so deserves. Steady as she goes, though. SL currently lures many thousands of residents away from their TV sets and IPads for hours and hours daily. Do not destroy its current appeal when you attempt to broaden it. And, whatever you do, put in place some sort of personnel evaluation system that rewards results instead of reputation (ala the Love Machine)! It's easy to believe that LL needed to lay off a third of their workforce last year, but some of the specific layoff decisions were incomprehensible to residents.