Ann Otoole InSL commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden...
If LL wants to improve new customer retention then they have a choice. Either police the welcome areas or delete them all and dump new customers into estates with staff on hand that keeps the...
View ArticlePsion commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden Realms, Why...
Here's a thumbs-up for Qarl's suggestion. Couldn't it be implemented using wireframe rendering until the texture is loaded using a pulsing wire color that fades/de-saturates with distance?So on first...
View ArticleKR commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden Realms, Why Not...
Rod... I'm really surprised you don't know more about Second Life and it's history. Your 'would be cool' suggestion above shows you clearly don't. I would have thought that would be an essential...
View ArticleCiaran Laval commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden...
When I first came to second life, I thought those avatars wearing white outfits with text on them were wearing a very popular inworld brand, it took me a while to realise it was actually the fact that...
View ArticleHamlet Au commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden Realms,...
That's not the kind of civil response that encourages productive conversation, I doubt all Lindens are aware of all the discarded/shelved/de-emphasized Linden projects of the last 10 years. In this...
View ArticleKR commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden Realms, Why Not...
@CiaranDoes it even need a sim specific viewer download? Surely they could fairly easily allow users to set their own preferred 3rd party home page in the viewer, and simply have a 'set as home page'...
View ArticlePussycat Catnap commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden...
The problem with retention, IMO, is not about downloads and pretty areas.Its about meeting people and finding pretty avatars -to talk to-.People log into SL and the most common questions you get seem...
View ArticleEhrmanDigfoot commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden...
I'm down with the 3rd party API, and love Qarl's suggestion for making the rezz process more Tron like. These type of visual metaphors go a long way to communicate what's going on at a technical level....
View ArticlePussycat Catnap commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden...
@Ann: Word.@KR: Maybe its not so bad that he has gaps in knowledge of SL history - if that prevents him from dismissing good ideas with 'that won't work, we tried it once before, didn't do it right,...
View ArticleEzra commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden Realms, Why...
Pretty much all of this stuff needs to be implemented. It'd be nice if we could hit a checkbox to give a select amount of sims preferential caching. It's probably not efficient that the sim we visit...
View ArticleKR commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden Realms, Why Not...
I'm sorry, Hamlet - and Rod - if you think I was being rude. I was just genuinely surprised that the man charged with leading SL into the future wouldn't be aware of some of the major initiatives of...
View ArticleArcadia Codesmith commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden...
Performance does drive recruitment and retention. If somebody logs into SL and it operates as smoothly as the disk-cached virtual worlds/MMOs that they're used to, they're more likely to stick around...
View ArticleDizzy Banjo commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden Realms,...
I agree with some points here and think preloaded areas would cause an expectation management issue. But performance expectations are already firmly established prior to them installing anything - by...
View ArticleKR commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden Realms, Why Not...
The trouble is, Arcadia, that pre-loading doesn't really achieve performance. It 'fakes' initial performance until you leave the preloaded area, and potentially sets an expectation that the rest of...
View ArticleQueenKellee Kuu commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden...
I like the idea of pre-loading. But there are a lot of gotchas involved with it. And I can't help but think of how I am with a build, little tweaks all the time. I like how things don't have a final...
View ArticleAdeon Writer commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden...
I would say the biggest problem new users face is not lag, graphics, FPS, or UI confusion, but rather it's the nature of the crowds that hang out in Welcome Areas, preying on new accounts and in...
View ArticleAlazarin commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden Realms,...
How about keeping the viewer as-is and having extra downloadable packs of textures + objects? For instance the welcome area pack for new residents and various other packs for different types of region:...
View ArticleKR commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden Realms, Why Not...
@AdeonAgree 100% And for the record, that's a large part of why I *do* advocate the idea of community gateways. Because right now the 'welcome' to SL is anything but, and I sincerely believe residents...
View ArticleAeonix Aeon commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden Realms,...
I remember back in the 1990's ActiveWorlds approached the same problem. In a dynamic and streaming world, how do you handle users who are used to local content and instant gratification?Their answer at...
View ArticleThadicus Caligari commented on 'Hey Linden Lab: Instead of Streaming Linden...
Maybe its good Rod doesn't know more about some of the history. Leaves openings to re-implement an old scheme but maybe a better way that was possibly killed for the wrong reason.As I read this post...
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