Dancing Lemon

Just had $28,700 taken from my account, the purchasing account has since been removed from SL by LL. IF this is a stolen credit card then what happened to the money? I can't see LL refunding the credit card company. From my understanding that is the CC companies responsibility to take the loss - after all if LL were selling RL goods they wouldn't be expected to refund it. So have LL made just over USD100 from this? If so why do they get to benefit and residents lose out?

Hi, Just came across your post. I "think" the dance you are talking about could be one of the dances that was stolen from me. It's called Buttweiser and can be found in my store THERE IN SPIRIT CLUB EQUIPMENT A, There In Spirit (128, 127, 27). Check out my picks (Dancing Lemon) for teleport :-) x I do however agree that LL should provide in their notecard they send a mention of the creator that the dance was stolen from as this information is provided to LL when I raise a DMCA.

Chaniyth, I run a real world company that operates in second life. It is not a game, it is a virtual environment, a platform that enables business and leisure activities. To call SL a game shows your lack of involvement, and therefore your authority on the subject. As the director of a bleeding edge tech company, I can hardly be considered to be resistant to change, as if so, I would have been out of work long ago. What I am resistant to however, is such change not following established industry standards, or when that change flies in the face of customer opinion and is detremental to our working lives. We actually did sit and take time to evaluate viewer 2, for slightly longer than 5 minutes, as we too realise that Linden will one day phase out viewer 1. After a week, we reverted, as almost every activity relating to content creation and customer management took longer, was less intuitive, and in some cases (such as the awful communications window) actually resulted in a reduced experience for customers. Viewer 2 may well be the future, but with project snowstorm, Linden have admitted they have got it wrong. Important changes such as mesh and speed improvements should not be come with the caveat of using this viewer until these previous mistakes have been rectified.

Can I tweak the UI? Really? Silly me, that must be the issue.

This is all good news and it's great to actually have some of that from the Lab these days. However every silver lining has a cloud so to speak, and this stories' cloud is that once again, some improvements are only being rolled out to viewer 2. There is only 1 tiny little problem with viewer 2: WE DON'T LIKE IT! Time and time again, all we see in these blogs is that long term SL users hate, hate, hate viewer 2, yet still you push, push, push it down our throats, by only including important code releases into this clunky, poorly designed and unintuitive viewer. (http_textures, mesh etc,etc.) Yes I understand all about the difficulties of having 2 code bases to maintain, cost benefits, and blah blah blah; and I also appreciate that you have launched snowstorm to try sort it out - However, this was your mistake. You went ahead with the awful thing despite repeated and numerous complaints from virtually every builder, scripter and power user out there. Now with snowstorm, you've pretty much admitted how bad it was, yet still we only see improvements going into viewer 2. You OWE it to us power users to put these important features into the viewer that we all use.

To all you 'job well done' people. I'm afraid to say that, in reality, this is far from the case. The arbitrary date for closure of xstreet is upon us, and (to look good to superiors and shareholders), in goes the marketplace, despite a sizeable proportion of the merchants literally pulling their hair our over several showstopping issues. To name but a few: Cant change listing title: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-2980 Listing order unintuitive: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-2912 No ANS for new items: https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-2572 Please tell me what the point of the beta test was, if, when critical flaws are discovered, you just go ahead with the original implementation plan. You might just have well forced everyone on to the new marketplace, then sorted out the problems afterwards. (Oh.... you did) I for one spent L$15000 last week promoting some items with the 'Homepage featured' listing enhancement. None of these products appear on the homepage listing, but worse they aren't even featured when someone selects a category, or seaches for a related term. Tell me, what is the point of paying for featured now? Even when I search for a product by its actual name it doesn't appear. Try searching for 'TIS Hybrid Dance Machine' then explain why it is number 112 in the listings, superceded by all my other products of a different name. This is just utterly crazy. Purchasing on the marketplace has gone completely random and I expect sales to do the same. Can you imagine if Google did the same and searching for 'Second Life' brought up 'Second Class Rail', 'Its a wonderful life', and several thousand other links before 'Second Life'? How much would that put a dent in your new client figures I wonder? Probably as big a dent as the marketplace search will put in peoples sales. Just for once, have the balls to stand up and say 'We Got It Wrong' before forcing it upon us. I wait for project SnowPlace to sort it all out in a years time...