Linden Lab has found and is in the process of fixing Calling Card (CC) bugs in Second Life™. Recent work has found some CC problems affecting performance. One fix LL will likely put in is a feature to remove duplicate CC’s.
_Second Life__091 by Jo Yardley, on Flickr
Having a CC triggers lookups at login and other times during a secession. With some people having 50k calling cards that puts a heavy load on viewer and server. An older but common tip for improving viewer performance is deleting all your Calling Cards. If you are not using them, there is no point having your viewer doing the work to update CC status for those avatars.
The Firestorm Viewer Team is deciding whether to go into feature freeze in 2 weeks and release a viewer version 2 weeks after that. They want to avoid having a viewer out without Viewer Managed Marketplace when the Lab starts their 30-day countdown clock on VMM implementation. That could leave FS users out in the cold on VMM. The real issue with VMM is for those using MagicBoxes. But, the team is anticipating FS users would not be happy.
poche doughnut by Estella Thereian, on Flickr
If you do nothing with your Marketplace items then auto-migration will eventually run and migrate you. That will eliminate anything you are still selling via magic box. There is no longer a need for magic boxes. The new system does all the things that MagicBoxes did.
Not too long ago we got a Ban List for our Second Life™ groups. But, Oz says we have no good user interface for managing the Ban List. OK, that wasn’t a duh moment. He was leading into asking for someone to take on designing a UI for managing the Ban List. So, if you … Read more
You probably don’t know that Second Life group member lists do not fully load for groups with over 5,000 members, unless you manage a large group. And now the Lab will soon be having the servers NOT send the full list to the viewer. This change is a work-around for a problem impacting group chat.
Paint Us like a Group of Your French Girls. by VOIDAR // Ashley Carter, on Flickr
This coming change is NOT related to the new 60-groups limit. That is having no measurable impact on group chat. But, downloading LARGE member lists is creating a problem, apparently whether 1 or 60.
Version: Black Dragon 3.7.27 (34575) May 22 2015 Review
Update: This article starts out listing a number of small problems with the Black Dragon Viewer. From some feedback I decided to add here at the beginning, this is a pretty nice viewer.
I am not into doing reviews of Second Life™ viewers like I once was. It has been a long time since I have used the Black Dragon Viewer. I often say I stopped using it because the user interface (UI) changes so fast. NiranV objects to my continually saying that. When I was using it, it was changing. But, NiranV tells me that has not been true for some time, years. And at the time I was forming my opinion he had just started work on Black Dragon and was changing it pretty fast. Fair enough. I need to update my thinking and belief about what is actually happening.
RAYNE Isles by Loverdag, on Flickr Taken w/Black Dragon Viewer
So, I now (6/2 – week 23) have Black Dragon 3.7.27 (34575) May 22 2015 installed. I’ll be using the viewer as I write this. Then over the next few updates I’ll decide if the UI is changing so fast I can’t keep up. I’ll publish this well before I have time to decide on the rate of change. But, my experience is that NiranV is pretty factual about what is going on with the viewer. So, for now I’ll concede the point and change what I say.
The Viewer Managed Marketplace (VMM) is coming to Second Life™. Soon. The Lab will transfer products to the new system with some limits. Kate McLaglen put in a support case to find out the limits. Dakota Linden replied with a message. Kate posted the response. It came up in my reader, but I cannot access … Read more
