CommerceTeam Linden has revealed in a forum post that new email preferences are available on The Second Life Marketplace, some long overdue ones relating to reviews being posted included, but other positive changes have been unveiled too. There’s also evidence that you shouldn’t stop believing in the Jira because issues dating back to 2010, indeed one almost to the day in 2010 have been addressed. The Jira sucks quite a lot more these days, but if your blood pressure can take it, keep filing those Jiras. Quite frankly after a day like I’ve had at work, my blood pressure really isn’t taking well to the new Jira, so it’s best that I take deep breaths and stay away from it.
CommerceTeam Linden is a Linden of few words, but does provide a link to the right place to get the skinny on the lowdown, namely, the release notes. The new changes include:
- An email to the recipient when a redelivery of an item they should have received occurs.
- An email to the merchant when a redelivery of an item in their store occurs.
- An email of any change to revenue distributions on a listing are made: addition and removal.
- An email to the recipient of a revenue distribution when a sale occurs.
- An email when an item is unlisted or blocked as a result of a flag.
- An email when a review is added, removed, commented on or flagged and removed (all to the merchant).
There’s lots of goodness in there, long asked for features and of course some features that should have appeared long ago but at least they’re here now. Some of these notifications were available on SLExchange so it has been frustrating for merchants that they weren’t on the SL Marketplace but now they are, so that’s good.
Emails when reviews are added and when an item is unlisted really are way overdue, the release notes notifying people that the feature had been added appeared almost three years to the day that Jira-Web 2129: Assist buyer feedback: Inform sellers of newly posted reviews on their items on the main page was created. Patience young padawans, patience.