Second Life and Virtual Worlds
Things about SL
This release is a set of minor fixes, one of which is invisiprims. See more here: RLV 2.9.17 If you are an RLViewer user, time to upgrade.
Seems those using Norton have started having problems since Thursday’s (5/5/16) update. Seems they get double posts in chat and clicks don’t work first try. The fix is to uninstall, run the Norton removal tool, and reinstall. I am seeing lots of people in the Firestorm Support group asking for help with the issue. The problem … Read more
Well, most of this is from week 18 but…
Lindal Kidd has posted about the grid being down Friday night (5/8). I’m usually out shooting pool and drinking. So, I wouldn’t notice the grid being down on a Friday night. See: Grid Down! Residents Scratch Heads.
As to the cause… we don’t know. The grid status message appears to have been a standard canned message.
Viewers Oz Linden was crashing so the meeting got a late start. Then only ran 20 minutes. Not anything new to talk about. But, there is an alarming change from the Beta Server group I’ve included as the last item in this article. The RC Second Life Maintenance Viewer version 4.0.4.314579 has been promoted to … Read more
(Link) Emanuel Maiberg, author, thinks Second Life is a shabby World of Warcraft… Really!?!
I have to wonder what part of SL Emanuel has been looking at…
The article points out several good reasons for SL having survived. Fair enough overall.
Quote: “Indeed, the most surprising thing about Second Life is not that it’s still a thing, but that 13 years after its inception, it is still way ahead of its time.”
Servers The main channel is getting a new package. This is the one running on the RC channels last week (17), which consists of a crash fix and improvements. The RC channels will continue to run the same package. So, they won’t be getting a restart. Viewers The main viewer remains 4.0.3-312816. No update for … Read more