Second Life and Virtual Worlds
I spend time helping people in the SL Forum, mostly in Answers. A question came in about making a Cover Photo… a what?
When logged into the forum open your profile. There are a couple of ways to do that. Up in the upper right click your name and select Profile. Or on any forum page where you have posted click your profile image.
This Friday 11/10 was the first meeting of a new user group, Web. This meeting is for discussion of all the Second Life™ web properties.
I’ve combined the summary and index.
03:45 – Getting Started. Welcome.
The main channel got the RC package Tuesday. This is another of those packages with “minor internal” changes.
The RC channels got a new package too. The release notes tell us:
These features haven’t made it to the wiki yet. They are at this point beta versions of the functions. The SLOTS_AVAILABLE item is for those working with Experiences. It is handy to know if an avatar has used up all the attachment slots before trying to attach something else to the avatar.
Yesterday Linden Lab posted in their blog about new improvements coming to Second Life. If you follow my blog, Ciarans’s or Inara’s, you already know most of what they wrote about. Project Valhalla is the project viewer where they are changing from Webkit to Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF). I’ve been writing about this change since … Read more
Today I had an email coming from secondlife.com saying someone from SL was following me… O.O /me looks around… I checked a friends profile to see if I could follow them. I used the https://my.secondlife.com/nalates.urriah URL. The new button is not there. I only found the Follow and Friend buttons on the https://my-demo.secondlife.com/nalates.urriah I guess … Read more
Some of you know about the changes that have been going on in the resident run and volunteer help groups. Some months ago Linden Lab disbanded the existing Linden run help groups because stats were showing new users getting help from the group were less likely to stay in Second Life. So, some other type of user support was/is needed.
With the forum changes we are seeing an effort to reshape the community and support systems. We have a new knowledge base and an answers section in the community forum… blogrum… wikrumog… whatever that thing is we have now. Also the team responsible for getting it working is having open meetings, office hours. You can find them at: Community Tools User Group