[Viewer 2.5 Beta Now Available]

I have to agree. I don't want anything to do with Facebook or Twitter, and we need a way to prevent those connections in our profiles. LL: please allow us to turn this off.

[Try Out the New Viewer 2.4 Beta, Now Available]

Thanks for entering the bug report, Laurent. I hope Apple pays attention. I've launched 2.4 beta on my MBP and it runs, so the problem does seem to be the ATI cards. Shadows are disabled on my nVidia card too though.

If Apple doesn't update its drivers, I wonder if we'll be able to use 2.4 ever, even the final release.

[Try Out the New Viewer 2.4 Beta, Now Available]

Unfortunately, Radar, it's the Macs with an ATI Radeon graphics card that have the problems, which means any iMac (as far as I know--could be wrong...)

That would explain it. My iMac has an ATI card. I'll try it on my older MacBook Pro with the nVidia card.

All the 2.x viewers have had a lot of trouble with ATI cards and I wish they'd fix that. All new Macs use ATI only.

[Try Out the New Viewer 2.4 Beta, Now Available]

I am unable to get it to launch in OS X Snow Leopard on my iMac. It freezes on startup, the initial window never appears, and I have to force-quit from the Dock. I tried three times. Activity monitor shows it as "not responding."

I'll try the next one.

[Viewer 2.3 Launches with Display Names]

For Mac users with ATI graphics, it's another story.  To get Anti-aliasing to work you have to enable FBO, which unfortunately breaks Name Tags.  And any attempt to use the deferred renderer results in a system lockup that will cause residents to lose unsaved data in other applications (not fun).

Yeah, I'm bummed. I bought a top of the line Mac for its powerful graphics card, but it's ATI (that's all Apple uses now) and I have less capabilities than I had on my old Mac. I do hope they fix this soon. Otherwise it's back to my PowerMac with the little screen.

[Introducing the new JIRA]

I like very much that the databases were merged -- that's really nice. I just looked at my pet bug, which I thought was in limbo, and can now see that the team has been following it and updating its status. That is very encouraging, and I think it qualifies as "more transparency." I'm sure when the nay-sayers get over their dislike of anything that sports a newer appearance, they'll start to notice and appreciate the improved content as well.

BTW, the last status update on my pet bug was done on my birthday a couple weeks ago. :-)