I was about to write a blog about communications and shared experiences, but that is on hold as I rush out the news that Linden Lab have updated their blog post on Received Items with the following information:
“UPDATE: Feb 29, 2012
We’d like to thank everyone who has provided feedback on the Received Items Beta. We will be launching Direct Delivery without redirecting any other objects to the Received Items folder. (Direct Delivery purchases will still be sent to the Received Items folder). We will be soliciting additional feedback on Received Items by contacting Residents who respond to this survey by 5pm PT March 1, 2012. We will do our best to speak to as many of those who participate as possible as we move forward with work on this feature.”
The survey is quite brief, which is just as well as because as I’ve just discovered it I’m hearing in my head “FLASH! FLASH! I love you, but we only have fourteen hours to save the earth!”. Actually in this case it’s around four hours! OMG! Dispatch War Rocket Ajax!
So what does this all mean? Well one of the big complaints has been how this has morphed from being a feature for receiving items from The Marketplace in the received items folder to receiving pretty much all new items in the received items folder, that’s inworld content, notecards, landmarks, the whole kit and caboodle.
What Linden Lab haven’t done, at any point, is try to sell this as a good idea. I have no idea why Linden Lab haven’t tried to sell it as a good idea, unless of course the glaringly obvious answer of it not being a good idea is the true answer, I was hoping there may be some technical brilliance behind this idea which would end the woes of failed deliveries from llGiveInventory but that doesn’t seem to be the case, if it is the case, then Linden Lab are being awfully quiet about it.
So if you do want to have a say about this, I’ve linked to the survey, although you may prefer to go to the blog post I linked to and click the link there, it’s in bold rather than looking like a normal link, but you only have until 5pm PST to fill in the survey, fly my pretties, fly!