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    Torley Linden

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    Global web community you say? I'd rather say deliver SL residents to dubious datamining companies that give a sh*t about privacy like Facebook. Can't wait until the consumer protection offices and/or data protection commissioner here in Germany sue Facebook and friends their asses off because of their rude violations of privacy laws!

    Anyway: I test-drove the newest abortion with an alt. Wow, with him web profiles get even worse! First, it isn't able to display all UTF-8 characters that can now be used and were introduced with fake display names! I only see ugly black blocks for some characters! *2 thumbs up with a sarcastic smile*

    Then, I added another alt as friend. For several minutes, the profile of that alt still showed the stupid "Add as friend" button, altough I already added him! Then, I wanted to change privacy settings so my other alt can see him on the map and edit his objects. Changed it in the profile and guess what: The friends panel in the sidebar that was open during the change doesn't reflect that changes! Looks like I have to relog or what? Hahaha! *another 2 thumbs up*

    My advice to LL: If you want people to give the ability to add links to social datamining networks, simply add a few textboxes for that in the old inworld profile. Ok, you would loose the ability to deliver your residents to datamining and spam them with personalized ads on the Marketplace, but hey, this change can be done within one day and doesn't need like 100 man-hours to implement and another 250 man-hours to deal with the dozend of bugs and user-complaints!

    P.S.: Didn't even mention the security holes that are introduced if everybody can stuff like every sort of HTML and JavaScript in their profile! But at least they seem to be so smart and HTML-encode special characters...

    Q Linden

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    And what's the deal to implement those features on the website only - in an optional fashion? And let inworld profiles be inworld profiles? Changing the input length of those boxes is such a big deal now they have changed their databases already: Locate the XML definition file for the profile tab/floater, change the length attribute, done! Oh did I mention friends are already clickable in the dashboard? That is if they allow you to see your inworld location.

    Oh and dude, why do you have a RL pic for the avatar here? You know this ain't Twitter nor Facebook, don't you?

    And for all others: I completely disabled my web profile because I don't wanna be liked on Facebook. Get your hands on a pre-2.5-viewer if you want to see it!

    Perhaps everyone should just completely disable the web profile. Wondering if LL will listen when lots of (new) people start complaining the profiles don't work.

    Amanda Linden

    Posted 

    But, Facebook is where we share some of the ones that we're excited about. So, if you have a Facebook account and choose to "Like" us, then it's just one more way to get plugged in.

    Hmmm... Let me briefly think of it... NOPE! I didn't use Facebook, I don't use it and I will never use it. I even blocked access to the Facebook domain so Mr. Zuckerberg can datamine my localhost device.

    Sure, you want to steal off some people from Facebook, but it's kinda rediculous that your current customers should inform themselves about YOUR company and what's going on on YOUR plattform at a concurrent plattform. I'm still sitting here with with an open mouth because of lack of understanding. And as a paying customer I expect - no wait! - I DEMAND all information can be found on YOUR site and not on a 3rd site!

    Q Linden

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    Well... People are actually leaving as the concurrency and retention rates show. But where are the new users that compensate the loss? Since the release of Viewer 2 about one year ago that should be considered the first big incentive on getting new types of residents, none worked out. Even the Web 2.0 styled UI with all the bling crap didn't help. And instead of making things fail-safe with fallback options for previous residents, LL ruins their experience, too. Can't see a valid reason why they are so foolish and mess with the already paying customers only in HOPE and UNCERTAINTY that they will be replaced by new paying customers. It's a golden rule in business to not offend your loyal customers - at least not the majority of them. A lesson LL obviously still needs to learn as it seems...

    Q Linden

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    Wait! This IMVU thingy, wasn't this the virtual world that's all about this thing with the 3 letters e, s and x? If that's the deal, the adult maturity level was the biggest fail ever - or wait! I have a vision: In a few months, you don't need to provide payment info or use Aristotle to age verify - a link to your Facebook profile will be sufficient!

    Despite that: Nobody ever said anything about acquiring more users. But: The whole misery started with the release of Viewer 2 that actually should attract more retaining users on it's own - a failure we all know. And it's not about link your profile to your Facebook account so your RL boss can see you're a naughty person in SL. If somebody wants to do that I don't care. But there are lots of people who don't like that. Or don't like other things. And here we come to the main reason because LL is failing: They don't give users choices!

    Let's take the profiles as example: People are forced to use web profiles no matter if they don't like it or not. And the solution would be so simple: Make a setting in preferences where users could choose if they prefer old style profiles or web profiles. They didn't! Result: People complained about various issues. For instance privacy: Why can't there be an option whether my profile should be "Like"-able or not? And what did LL? They knitted some weird privacy extension to it with the result that when I select my profile shouldn't be visible on the web people with viewer 2.5 can't see it - old inworld profiles work fine!

    Another example? People complained about the Viewer 2 UI for over a year and lots of them want a UI close to old Viewer 1.23 style. What did LL do? Nothing! They invented some other weird stuff instead of creating an optional close-to-old-style UI. Want to see how this works? Well, have a look at Firestorm!

    Question to LL (although I doubt anyone of LL will read this): Why do people get stuff shoved down their throats despite lots of complaints instead of making things optional? Is this so complicated?

    Q Linden

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    I already mentioned in the blog post about the beta preview of this "improved" viewer why it just can't be possible to make things OPTIONAL? Must be such a new philosophy it hasn't reached LL yet! In Windows 7 I can still use Windows 95 UI style - 15 years after it has been released. Perhaps it's just too complicated for the Lab - as with finishing work on the quadrillions of "Todo" comments that can be found in viewer source that have been ported from viewer 1.x...

    Q Linden

    Posted

    Lol, just disabled my profile should be visible on the web, but hey, who did that German translation for that checkbox? Google? Try again! It's wrong!

    And then I downloaded that abortion of a viewer to check what happens to my profile for V2 users. On the download page is a small note the viewer is compatible with Windows Vista and Windows 7. Well guys... You'd better finally fix the way physical video memory is detected on those systems. Parsing a string from DXDiag is definitely the wrong way as DXDiag reports virtual video memory from DX10 onwards. You need to evaluate the field DedicatedVideoMemory of the struct DXGI_ADAPTER_DESC. I don't have a graphics card with 4 GB video memory! Thanks!

    Addition: Sorry for all V2 fanboys, but my profile seems to be not available for you anymore. Use a viewer with inworld profile and complain at LL. LOL

    Q Linden

    Posted

    Turn off sidebar? Someday? Firestorm already has it, although LL designed that #*%& as a mandatory thing so you can't simply turn it off but need some ugly work-arounds to fake its demise! Talking about the detachable panels: Too stupid you can only detach and then minimize them. You can't close them but need to redock them in order to not have them clutter the screen as minimized bars. Again, Firestorm has a solution to this so they can be "closed". I put closed in quotation marks because thanks to the weird way viewer 2 is coded, you cannot just really close them without breaking anything, so you need another glorious workaround and move them out of view to get them "closed". But netherless a better solution to redock stuff only to get it rid off the screen.

    Really: All effort should be put in the UI, not on useless mumbojumbo like display names, web profiles, user-saleout to Facebook and other stuff nobody wants. Saying this, please scrap the web profiles - or if you, LL, really want this nonsonse, also provide profile data as XML so TPVs can create a usable inworld profile! Thank you!

    Q Linden

    Posted

    Sure! Of course if you don't have a Facebook account, they cannot link that data to a known person, but nethertheless it is possible to detect unique persons and use this data for data mining and further purposes, for instance personalized ads!

    Under Windows, the hosts file is in the Windows installation directory -> system32 -> drivers -> etc. If you are using Vista or Windows 7, you cannot simply edit the file, you need to run the editor as administrator (see here).

    In the file, add a line like

    127.0.0.1     www.facebook.com

    This simply routes all requests to Facebook back to your local network card, thus preventing accessing Facebook's server.

    Q Linden

    Posted

    I already said it doesn't prevent people from "Liking" you. But what you can prevent by rerouting Facebook's URL is that they can datamine what you do yourself, for instance what profiles you look at and what other pages with the Like button you view. They can retrieve data about you and what you do even if you're not a member on Facebook when your browser requests the Like button. And they can identify unique persons, too!

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