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Receive Items Folder – Update II

2012/03/12 by Nalates Urriah

Today in the Commerce group word came through that Oz Linden and Brooke Linden posted in JIRA SVC-7748. The word is that after 300+ posts in one day on the legitimate use cases the proposed change to llGiveInventoryList() would create, the change will be rolled back.

The change was in the Release Channels on Blue Steel and Le Tigre. The llGiveInventoryList() change broke RLV and I hear some other use cases, but no one can tell me what those are.

So, the Lindens are listening.

The comments made are:

Oz Linden added a comment – 12/Mar/12 11:35 AM

We hear you, we’re checking on it, thanks

And:

Brooke Linden added a comment – 12/Mar/12 11:51 AM

Thanks to everyone for the feedback. We will be rolling back LeTigre and BlueSteel on Wednesday, and will not re-deploy until this has been fixed.

Received Items Folder – Update

2012/03/122012/03/11 by Nalates Urriah

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Darrius Gothly has an article out: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back. The article is about 4,500 words. I covers the events that have been happening with the Direct Delivery and the received Items folder. If you have been following my topic Second Life Market Place you know all but the latest events. Here I’ll give you a synopsis of Darrius’ article, which is a pretty good read. It avoids being classed as a rant IMO and I think provides a detailed summary and analysis.

The Problems

If you have been Second Life for some time you know the problems the Commerce Team is attempting to fix. The biggest of which is failed delivery of Market Place purchased items, scripted Give-Inventory items, and person to person gifts. All of which tend to fail when the recipient is off-line.

There is also the problem of Where-did-it-go when trying to find newly received items. Is it in Objects or My Inventory or someplace else? I suspect new Second Life users get annoyingly confused as older users get annoyed.

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#SL Direct Delivery 1 Step Closer

2012/02/24 by Nalates Urriah

Yesterday a new Second Life Blog post appeared on the next phase of Direct Delivery. See: Received Items Beta Launch. This post words things so it sounds as if these are two different projects. May be I just read it that way. Whatever the case, the two are dependent on each other and will be released at the same time.

How To Test

If you want to help with testing and experiment with the feature see the SL Wiki: Received Items Beta Testing.

The testing is done on the Preview/Beta Grid, ADITI. Instructions for logging into the ADITI grid are in the wiki article.

#SL Market Place Woes

2012/01/27 by Nalates Urriah

Darrius Gothy writes about the Second Life Market Place problem of delayed delivery. It seems starting at midnight Pacific Time deliveries take 30 minutes to 5 or 6 hours to deliver. You can imagine how happy that makes everyone.

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Darrius explains that slow delivery leads to other problems. Not the least of which is user frustration and overall poor impression of SL. You can read his post here: Slow Spiral Into Demise.

The delivery problems are reported in JIRA item: WEB-4260 – SLM deliveries consistently delayed in early morning hours. The JIRA was filed November 11, 2011. It has only 72 watches, so the Lindens are not going to get too excited about it. (Still more votes than watches. It is amazing how hard it to get the word around about WATCH being the important click.)

Direct Delivery Beta Post

2012/01/11 by Nalates Urriah

Commerce Team Linden posted the following: The Direct Delivery Beta on Aditi launches today [Jan 10, 2012] (Aditi is the Beta grid and testing will not impact production). If you would like to try out Direct Delivery please see the Direct Delivery Instructions and the Beta Release Notes on the wiki. These instructions include pointers … Read more

#SL Failed Deliveries

2011/08/30 by Nalates Urriah

Whether you are a merchant or a shopaholic failed deliveries are a PITA. Darrius Gothly has a post in the SL Forum (A New Theory Why The Shopping Cart Causes “Failed Deliveries”) about failed deliveries and what might be done to improve things. A quick summary follows.

Concept

Darrius has the idea that we may not be have a higher rate of failed deliveries, but only a perceived higher rate. It is like not having a TV, so you don’t know about all the storms around the world. You get a TV and hear about them and suddenly start thinking there are more storms than ever. It is not the weather that changed, it is you intake of information that changed. You are now aware of what is going on.

Darrius explains how the shopping cart in the Market Place (MP) has changed the information flow so that we see more delivery failures. We personally have no increase in failures, but merchant reporting tells us about more failures and raises our awareness.