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    New Estate settings!

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Happy Friday friends!

    For those of you who follow me on Twitter, you’re familiar with my random polls & silliness but also teasing out upcoming project work and features.  

    Being the Jira loving fool I am, I love picking through your feature requests and ideas.  As a resident myself, I also find things I want to change to make our lives and experiences easier.  Things like increasing the size of the Marketplace shopping cart from 10 to 99 to setting the default Marketplace search result to return 96 instead of 12.  

    Last month I teased out some upcoming changes for Estate Managers

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    I’m happy to announce that next Wednesday these changes will go to the RC channels.  If all goes well, the server changes will go to the entire grid the following week!


    To access these new controls you’ll need to download our new project viewer here. I hope this helps with your land management! A big shout out to Rider & Leviathan Linden for being my partners in crime for finding ways to improve your world!

    Have a great weekend & be good to each other!
     

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    MFA coming to the Viewer

    in General Discussion Forum

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    4 hours ago, LittleMe Jewell said:

    I've enabled MFA on my account and my money-holder account.  Though, the viewer part won't apply to me until Firestorm releases an MFA version.  No way am I going back to the SL Viewer just for a bit of extra security.

    I talk with Jessica Lyon on a regular basis and the Firestorm Team has already begun looking at the build and it should be coming in their next Beta!

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    Viewer Performance Improvements

    in Second Life Viewer

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    We are happy to announce the availability of a viewer that includes adjustments to improve performance. We focused on reducing image decoding time, initial text rendering time, and the number of frame stalls that occur. As a result, this viewer should feel more responsive.

    Busy locations such as a crowded club or shopping event will be the best way to notice these improvements. Try adjusting your draw distance, shaders or avatar complexity and let us know if you’re seeing a difference with your performance. 

    Please try it out and let us know if you see specific issues by filing a Jira.

    NOTE: This viewer is only available for Win64 at this time. Future versions will be available with Win32 and Mac builds included.

     

    Known Issues

    If you have a high frame rate, textures may blink white for one frame while streaming in. We are investigating the source of this effect.

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    Viewer UI enhancements

    in Second Life Viewer

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    Hello everyone. Today we’ve released some improvements to the Viewer UI. Currently you will need a special project viewer to use it. Read on to find out what’s changed and why.

    Making SL easier for newcomers to learn can improve the chances that they will become long-term Residents. Growing the Resident community benefits everyone -- more people to meet, more participation in events, and more commerce. The changes described below are the first batch of what we hope will be an ongoing series of usability improvements.

    Avatar menus

    With this release we introduce the Avatar top-level menu which brings together all avatar tools in one place. One of SL’s most important features is now more visible to newcomers. You’ll notice the avatar right-click menu has been streamlined as well.

    Have you ever struggled to select an avatar attachment?  It’s inside your avatar, it’s transparent, or it’s a mesh attachment that you just can’t grab. You can now touch, edit or remove an attachment using right-click from all Avatar windows and Inventory.

    Inventory

    Next to the search box you will now see a button with an eye icon. You can omit links, Library items, and Trash items from search results, requiring less scrolling over matches you may not find relevant. Your choice is remembered for each tab. We started small, with just three options. Let us know what other choices you’d find useful.

    We’ve all seen “Find original” failing to show the original item. Experienced Residents have learned to reset filters, clear the search string, and switch to the main inventory tab -- and then do “Find original” a second time. Now the Viewer will do all of that for you, ensuring that you’ll see the original item on the first try.

    Places window

    Taking advantage of what people already know from other products is a key way to reduce learning time. Creating a landmark in SL is just like bookmarking a web page, but it hasn’t behaved the same way. When you click the star, you’ll now see a confirmation that will be familiar to anyone who’s used a browser.

    Previously, the Places window included landmarks from Inventory and Library. We removed these sections and made Favorites its own tab, removing the need for tabs within tabs. This reduces the clutter of landmarks you did not consciously create, and makes it clearer for newcomers. The Library landmarks were outdated. For landmarks received as part of purchases, we’ve observed that people look for them in Inventory rather than Places.

    When you teleport to a different location, you will now see the name of the location inserted in the Nearby chat stream, making it easier when you scroll back to see where conversations took place.

     

    We look forward to hearing from you regarding these changes.

    Download the Viewer here. For more technical input, please file a Jira.

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    Farewell... (soon)

    in General Discussion Forum

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    And now I'm crying again... Oz, I can't thank you enough for the mentorship, encouragement and friendship over the last 11 years.  I am so fortunate to consider you family and I am a better person for having worked with you.  I wish you all the best in your retirement!

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    Your Second Life Story Challenge

    in Challenges

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    I discovered Second Life in 2004 when I was working for an architectural firm and my podmate showed me how they had made their buildings in this virtual world.  Having read Snowcrash I knew this was something I had to try.  A month later I was spending 40 hours a week inworld on top of my regular job.  In 2007 a friend told me Linden Lab was opening up an office in my hometown.  I knew I had to apply and get my foot in the door.  I was hired that year and I also met the resident who later became my husband.  We've been together for 13 years now.

    What does Second Life mean to me? It means everything in the world to me.  My family, friends... my source of enjoyment and creativity... and a job and community that I love dearly.

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    Voice Morph

    in Everything Else

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    Hi and thank you for your patience!  Voice morphs are now fixed.  If you run into any new issues please let us know and file a jira.  Again, thank you so much for your patience.

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    Live Chat?

    in Account

    Posted

    Hi and thank you for your patience!  Voice morphs are now fixed.  If you run into any new issues please let us know and file a jira.  Again, thank you so much for your patience.

    Second Life Winter Web Work

    in Second Life Web

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    Greetings everyone!   The web team is working on a few different projects and in fine spirits.  We want to give you a quick update on what’s been happening with the team over the last few months.

    Auctions are back up and running!  We’re continuing to work to streamline the experience and bring you a great variety of parcel options.  We’re also getting really close to releasing Resident to Resident Auctions!

    Our bug reporting system (Jira) got an update.  

    We’re doing a number of tweaks to the Join flow.  Certainly the biggest change there has been the new starter avatars. 

    We’re also continuing our work on Marketplace and have rolled out the following updates:

    • Merchants now have the ability to search through their order history with partial matches on recipient or sender, product name, store/merchant name
    • We now notify you if you have already purchased an item - If you’re on the page of a product you’ve already purchased, you will now see a green bar at the top of the product page which will say “you purchased this item on X date”
    • There's now an option on each edit listing page to turn off automatic redelivery. A non-copy-enabled product will have that option greyed out. Each product listing says whether automatic redelivery is available (either with a check mark or crossed out, similar to permissions)
    • If a merchant blocks a user, that user a) cannot purchase items from their store, and b) cannot receive items as gifts from that store. Items can be viewed and put into the cart, but checkout will not happen (items will be removed from the cart with a notification, similar to if they were just no longer available, or previously if a giftee blocked a gifter)
    • Added Favorites and Wishlist to dropdown under "my marketplace"
    • We fixed the bug where Clicking to a search result switches search palette to “Search this store”
    • We fixed an issue with the "Share this item" widget malfunction
    • We fixed issues with Gifting items to other users
    • We fixed the issue where adding both a gift and an item for yourself into your cart delivered both item to you


    Thank you for making Second Life great!  We look forward to hearing from you!
     

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    Since when can customers do an MP redelivery by themselves?

    in Merchants

    Posted · Edited by Alexa Linden

    13 hours ago, Arduenn Schwartzman said:

    Hi all. I only just now got a few notifications by email that customers had some of my products redelivered from MP, all by themselves. For the first time since the 10 years I've been on SLExchange XStreet SL Marketplace. After some digging on the MP website, I found that each Invoice page in my Order History has a Redeliver item button. Since when is this possible?

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    Too bad the Order History list doesn't have a search option, though. Because most redelivery requests are done by people who bought the item in question years ago and accidentally 'lost' it after some inventory spring cleaning stroke.

    Not "too bad..." but maybe more of an "I can't wait for https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/BUG-225884"

    I dug around and found an older request for this and have cleaned it up and we're looking at it now.  

    This is where I'm going to plug how great Feature Requests are.  If you have things you'd like to see which are Features (not bugs) please fill out a Jira.  We triage Feature Requests every week and there's a great team of Lindens who review each request.  When you fill them out please include how you see your feature working, why it's needed, pictures, squiggles... anything you think will help illustrate your Feature.  (Feature Request triages are actually one of my favorite meetings of the week!)

     

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