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Yesterday’s adult content user group meeting revealed some interesting information about Linden Lab processes, a positive process too I should add
Viale Linden, who was sporting a very dodgy moustache, which probably wasn’t anything to do with Movember, but reminded me of it, announced that Linden Lab had sent emails to regular users who were not adult verified, received a good response and then sent a follow up email advising those who did verify of where to find suitable content.
This post is a tale of brave deeds by your intrepid hero (that’s me!) as I venture into a strange portal to be faced by dangeours beings and landscape to bring you, my loyal readers, news of new developments by Linden Lab in terms of providing an inworld experience, I deserve a beer for this … well a cookie at least!
Whilst reading SLUniverse, I noticed a post about Project LR, an inworld game designed by Linden Lab. This is currently in beta and only available to premium members. Now if you are a premium member and you go to locations inworld that are primarily based on premium members you may see something like this:
I’m not sure where these portals are going to appear, but eventually they will be available to non-premium users too. However, through this portal lies danger!
ElvenMyst, the sim owned by Elf Clan will be closing on November 23rd as the clan head to Inworldz full time, the full story is detailed here. There are a few points to note, first of all not all Elves are leaving Second Life, indeed my chief Elf has just poked me telling me I need to update the covenant on a sim. Secondly not all of Elf Clan are Elves!
The blog post by Wafinder Wishbringer is a harsh one, a tale of frustration, woe and cold harsh realities about running costs, Inworldz is cheaper, a lot cheaper and for some people it may seem like the better option, for me I still think Linden Lab are heading in the right direction under Rodvik but I have been to Inworldz where Lady Sakai tries to get me to rent land, one of the reasons I haven’t so far is because I’m at my limit with how much Im prepared to invest financially as well as time wise, days aren’t long enough but one day I will rent a plot from Lady Sakai, if she lets me! I’m sure we can come to some sort of arrangement. I’m a fan of virtual worlds so the more the merrier is fine by me.
I see that the names conundrum is being discussed again, with a thanks to a blog post from Hamlet Au, followed by a reference to Jira SVC-7125 it seems that there may be some light at the end of the tunnel:
“It’s clear there is a lot of interest in SVC-7125. The intent was for users to specify their last name using the Display Names feature found in users’ profiles, which most Viewers now support. For those that haven’t used Display Names yet, you can also set them on the web: https://my.secondlife.com/settings/profile.
Know that we hear you and value your passion and that we are currently reviewing some of the decisions that were made with the username /Display Names implementation.”
The issue here really though, is that Linden Lab can’t really go back to the old system, one of the reasons they moved to the new system was because they realised that plenty of people didn’t want to fanny around trying to pick a combination of first name and last name that suited them, a single name is easier, however the process really needed more options somewhere down the line.