I’m getting too old for this all day drinking malarkey, after a weekend of excess I feel like I am running on empty. Don’t drink alcohol kids, it’s not good for you! Anyway, the show must go on. Today’s episode looks at the new proposal for Received Items functionality. Inara Pey has a good post about it, which you can read here. There’s also a thread in the official forums, which you can read here. The feedback is still very meh and I still have concerns about the whole issue but there is one striking part to this new proposal:
“We are aware of the concern with sending all items to the root of the Received Items folder. Some of you suggested that if we fixed the offline delivery problem, you would be amenable to the Received Items folder. So that is what we are going to do. Objects will be sent to the Received Items folder EVEN WHEN THE RESIDENT IS OFFLINE and the Resident will be notified via IM. The objects will be sent even if the IM fails to deliver because of the IM cap.”
Wait wait, they’re going to fix the offline delivery issue? This is a big fix, but it seems to be being overlooked.
Why would this be overlooked? Well one reason is that people are still awaiting an announcement that we will have a robust delivery system full stop, I mean fixing offline deliveries is all well and good but will this help to fix the issue with online deliveries? llGiveInventory has always had a reputation for being ropey.
Then there’s Jira SVC-7748 which highlighted an issue with the RLV system, I’m not a user of this system so didn’t consider problems in that area, but it looks like LL are going to address this issue, with a comment from Lord Lucan Brooke Linden on the issue:
“Thanks to everyone for the feedback. We will be rolling back LeTigre and BlueSteel on Wednesday, and will not re-deploy until this has been fixed.”
Interesting aside here, people started giving thanks in the Jira which led to Oz commenting:
“I don’t want to seem ungrateful for the thanks or anything, but please realize that we’d rather not get an email for every person who puts a comment in this issue to thank us. Unless you’d rather we did not Watch the issues you care about, it’s really better not to comment in them unless you are adding something substantive. Thank us on the forums… we read those too, but they don’t fill up our inboxes.”
Yes Oz, that’s exactly the reason some of us objected about the decision to remove votes from the Jira and encourage people to watch an issue instead, watches do indeed fill up your inbox! Of course votes weren’t removed in the end but the message was if you don’t watch you don’t care, plenty of people don’t watch an issue because of the associated inbox issues.
However back to the point, here we’re seeing Linden Lab addressing issues, giving feedback, bringing Brooke out of hiding and making an effort to work with the community, concerns about Received Items are still around and many of those concerns are valid, but we do seem to be seeing signs of a more responsive Linden Lab and that should be encouraged.