Evangeline Arcadia

I've been a bit out of the loop over the past couple of years ( I was quite active 2006-2009), just logging in every now and then to pay some gallery rent, reply to messages etc. and all through that time I've been using Viewer 1.23. I used to be happy with it. Sure there was an occasional crash but nothing to interfere too much with my enjoyment of SL, and I never had a rant about SL before. So, trying to get back into SL again recently I thought I'd try the latest viewer ( 3.2) - must be better than the old 1.23 I thought...better developments must have taken place over the past couple of years... I was wrong. What is going on? The interface seems more clunky, especially the view/move controls. Why change the interface - just for change's sake?Search is abominable -I don't find it user friendly at all. What was wrong with the old one? If it ain't broke don't fix it!!!!!!! For example, I tried to look at listings under Arts and Culture in 'Places'. In the older viewer I would have seen a list of all the relevant places, so I could happily pick some to go explore - you can't do that with this viewer. It seems you have to put something in search field - but if I don't know what's out there how can I put something in the field to search for it!! I reckon a lot of smaller places will lose out in traffic because of this, which long term might mean less of the great smaller builds and events. Poor search facilities might just drive people away to the competition. This also means that my places are not showing up in search unless you know their names to search by! And my paid classifieds didn't appear either. So what the heck am I paying for???CPU usage goes through the roof when trying to log in to the latest viewer - 60-100% usage compared to a maximum of 50% with 1.2. I've checked the specs and meet the requirements.I am having contstant problems with the latest viewer crashing. By comparison 1.23 was very stable.I guess I'll have to continue with my old viewer, but that doesn's seem to be performing as well as it used too - I'm seeing object viewing problems such as being able to see some of my buildings, texture problems. As it's no longer being supported however, how long will it be till it becomes too outdated? With the terrible performance of the newest viewer I can see perhaps having to forget SL - so no more premium membership from me Linden Labs, no classifieds payment, no spending by me in SL or creating places for people to visit and hang out. That would be a real shame, because I think SL is a fantastic concept, and I have met people and seen builds, art, had great discussions, which I would never have in RL. Perhpas Linden Labs are becoming too complacent. I suspect it's only a matter of time before there is a viable alternative to SL (there is already one with potential and I hear many from SL have left for it). If I'm having problems just getting into and using SL with the new viewer and not being able to easily find places and events that are happening, I dread to think what other changes there are that I have yet to catch up on!! It's not about getting used to change. I'm believe in change if the change is good and an improvement. From what I've seen this isn't. If I have got some things wrong through lack of knowledge then I'll be happy to stand corrected. But so far I am very very far from impressed! Rant over.

Thanks Sylvia - very useful thread. I logged in to try out some of the suggestions there, and low and behold I can see my walls and floors again! Maybe I needed to log out after clearing the cache or something...but it seems okay now. Thanks very much everyone who replied with suggestions, it's very much appreciated:smileyvery-happy:

Hi Numpty, thanks for your reply, at least I know it'snot just me experiencing this problem. I installed the latest viewer and cleared cache, and tried clicking the only remaining prim visible, but nothing worked...think it's time to submit a bug report....:matte-motes-frown:

Thanks Phil, Thinkerer. I'll try the cache thing, and I've just thought, I don't have the latest SL viewer, so I guess that might contribute to the problem. It's probably about time I updated...haven't done for over a year!...:matte-motes-grin:

Thanks very much for the quick replies! Venus thanks verymuch for taking a look - if you can see the gallery with the walls and floors (yes, they are half walls)that's really weird. I wonder why I can't see them? I haven't touched the gallery for a long time. I wouldn't be able to have the sim reset as I don't own the sim. I guess as long as everyone else can see them that's okay - untill I want to do a redesign...

Hi, recently I found that my gallery walls seemed to have dissappeard - I thought maybe it was an SL issue but after having checked a couple of separate times the issue is still there. I've turned on 'highlight invisible' but nothing is showing up. The funny thing is that if I walk around the gallery the environment behaves as though the walls and floors are still there - you stop when you reach the wall and can walk on the upper floors...but you cannot see them or select them..so I've now got a bunch of paintings hanging in thin air. I can't think of how this has happened - can anyone help? THis is really puzzling (unless it's some new kind of griefing!)

I've not been around much in SL for a couple of years, just enough to maintain my park and gallery and would like to get involved again. I used to love going to discussions and also belonged to a few groups, but most of those were mainly active on US time which was okay at the time, but now I'm not able to be on on those times, just on Euro time. I'm wondering if anyone could recommend some good active groups or discussion groups which are active in Euro time (like evenings/weekends). My main interests in the past SL have been exploring, art, creating things, going to classes and talks/discussions, but I'm open to experiencing new things and it would be nice to meet some new people too. SL always seems so lonely and empty these days! Any suggestions anyone?