[Viewer 2.4 Released!]

Why people should tolerate Viewer 2.x:

Second Life will thrive best if it can recruit a wide range of users. Speaking as someone who uses Second Life for teaching rather than purely entertainment purposes, the shared media capabilities of 2.x are such a useful improvement over 1.x that it's worth hanging in there with 2.x whle the bugs get worked out, and even worth tolerating a less-than-optimal user interface. Additionally, while not critical, display names are useful because they help me keep track of who is and isn't in my class, and who the individual students are in "real life."

[Viewer 2.4 Released!]

Actually it's not that. The display of "???" instead of a name. Comes and goes in the following manner: Sometimes my own name appears to me as ???. Then, maybe after 10 minutes, it "megically" changes to what it is supposed to be. Also, sometimes EVERY person in my friends list has the name, "???"  Again, this comes and goes. When the problem "magically resolves itself, all of my friends names appear correctly--all at the same time.

[Viewer 2.4 Released!]

Version 2.4 is much less stable, for me, than was the previous 2.x version. Version 2.4 often shows question marks instead of real name tags. And teleport often forces a logout. (Windows XP sp3; Dell Latitude E4310).